2011 535i - Black - Need help! Finishing tomorrow

[Matador]

All in all, I think it came out pretty great!

First, I washed the whole car with CG's citrus wash to degrease/dewax and help take any crap off.

I then went through the whole car with my nanoskin 'yellow' 'clay' pad through the whole car. I used the T.R.I.X. tar and embedded break dust stuff all over the car and Tarminator for stubborn tar spots.

I noticed there's some tar left under the left side sideskirt that I didn't notice until AFTER. Will have to figure out how to take off that GOD knows how old tar from the car another day.

I did 1 step polish with the SF2500 and green 'polish' pad from Uber.

Here's the results:





I noticed a nick in the gas door. It feels too the 'bone'. Is this a Dr. Color Chip fix?







How do I take off the 'white' residue? I forgot to take the bumper grill area. NEWB!!! I tried using a wet rag, got most of it off...but this is what's left.





I also shined the exhaust. It was BEATEN and probably hasn't been cleanred in 2 years. This was the best i could get and it looks like some of the 'polished' metal was eaten or something. I used 0000 steel wool and quick detailer to take off the tar and crap, then polished with the Chemical Guys Heavy Metal polish. The results:







I'll try and get better pics of the car, but it's pretty perfect except the trunk!

[Paul A.]

Looks awesome to me! I bet Mom was happy.

[irvsmith]

Looks good to me. Thanks for the followup.

[Matador]

Looks awesome to me! I bet Mom was happy.

She was! She just didn't understand what I was doing and why it took so long.....haha

Looks good to me. Thanks for the followup.

Thanks to everyone on this site/this thread!

I just need to figure out the waterspots.

Anyone know or have any insight too on how to take off the 'white' that's on the plastic pieces in the front bumper?

And with the exahust, is that permanently damaged? Or can maybe wetsanding help that? I was bummed to see the steel wool didn't completely bring it back to life.