This customer was not a referral. He came to me after viewing my website. He has a 2008 335i that has been parked outside for quite some time. He brought it to me for a quote, but it was so dirty that it was hard to give an accurate number. He advised there were quite a few chips to be filled too. I ended up taking one hour longer than quoted. This was a 15 hour job. In all honesty, I don't think I've had a dirtier car to clean. It's a gorgeous machine and I really wanted it to look like it should. Hopefully I succeeded....
As it arrived:
I really like the wheels and the contrast the have to the paint. I was looking forward to spending some time on them!
This is where the toll of storage was taken. What was worse than this was what was under the hood. There was so much leaf and tree debris, that I needed to get my PF51 wet vac out and suck them all out of the many hiding places they had found. I swear I took 15 minutes just doing that!
Other challenges were there too...
It took at least twice as long as normal just to power wash away all the debris all over the car. Next up was to foam it with a mix of Megs Hyper Wash and DG 901.
I knew there would be a ton of contamination on the paint, so after the foam and a wash with DG 901, the car was then washed again with IronX soap gel applied to a grout sponge.
I then brought it inside and blew off the wheels with the Master Blaster and clayed the car and glass with the CarPro clay block. I couldn't believe how it was grabbing the block, even after the IX wash! This paint was going to take some work to get back in shape, that's for sure!
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