Detailed: BMW 1991 BMW 318is

[VW 91]

A buddy of mine from Michigan came up this past weekend to detail his car. He's also a detailer so we did this one together. Since we had all weekend to complete I decided to try out my new bottle of Menzerna PO85rd for the first after 105/205. I was really pleased with the results! Here was our process.

Wash:
Two bucket method with cobra chenile wash mitts
Megs detailer shampoo plus
P21S TAW and detailing brush for trim and door handles
0000 steel wool for exhaust tips with megs super degreaser
Dried the car with cobra guzzler

Clay:
DP Clay
ONR diluted clay lube

Wheels/Tires:
P21S gel wheel cleaner allowed to dwell for about 45 min
Daytona wheel brush
Megs APC at 10:1 for tires
Dp wheel glaze to seal wheels
DP gloss tire gel

Correction:
PC7424XP on speed 6/5.5 yellow CCS pad/M105
PC7424XP on speed 6/5.5 orange CCS pad/M205
PC7424XP on speed 4.5/5.5 gray CCS pad/PO85rd
IPA wipedowns were down between each step

LSP:
1 coat of WGDGPS was applied and then allowed to cure 12 hours overnight.
Then we topped it off with some Poorboys natty blue paste wax.

Onto the pics!

Here are some shots of the car outside. Getting a look at the paint in the sun to see what were dealing with..







Some pretty decent swirling, but mainly there were a lot of deep scratches that you will see better in later pics.

Brought it inside and washed then clayed it.



The wheels had years of caked on brake dust, they came pretty clean though. Befores:





Afters:





Clay bar before:



And after doing a 1/4 of the hood:



Exhaust tips were really dirty too, they cleaned up nicely, but some areas were too far gone.





Afters:





Now that the paint was washed, clayed and dried, we started on the compounding and polishing steps. Here are some 50/50's followed by some before and afters.









Roof before:



Roof after:



Trunk lid before:



Trunk lid after:



Before:



After:



And the rest are all afters, loved how the flakes popped!







Reflection shot of the roof:

[VW 91]

Interior carpets were cleaned with the aqua brush with the PC and APC 10:1, and everything else was vacuumed and wiped down and then protected with Aerospace 303 as well. Interior was already in really good condition. Here it is after:





And here is the car completely finished outside!



















Thanks for looking!

[SeaJay's]

Nice work! Wheels came out 100 time better and the paint actually shines again!

[VW 91]

Nice work! Wheels came out 100 time better and the paint actually shines again!

Yes, I was very pleased how the wheels came out. They weren't 100% clean, heck probably not even 90%, but BMW's are notorious for the brake dust buildup. And factor in how they probably weren't cleaned for years, I was happy

Can't even tell the car looks 20 years old now!

[LuxuryMobile]

That BMW looks incredible. I really like the old school interiors. Is that the original paint? If so, it was kept in great shape considering how old it is.

[VW 91]

That BMW looks incredible. I really like the old school interiors. Is that the original paint? If so, it was kept in great shape considering how old it is.

Yes, it's original paint. And kind of a rare too one! Diamantschwarz metallic is what my buddy said it was.