Evening.
Been rather busy recently so rather than do lots of write ups I'll pick this one out and for those that want to see what we have been up to you can view the photos of the other cars we have worked on in our portfolio on our website.
Click the thumbnails.
Well after owning this lovely white car for a relatively short time...
... the owner had the chance to swap into this brand new and mechanically identical Frozen Black M3...
Uber shiny white to matt black. I guess you couldn't get further apart
The car was brand new only having been driven from the dealers home so was just covered in a very light layer of dust.
Wheels cleaned in the usual manner with acid free cleaner and super degreaser.
Then as it was a matt car (the finish is actually more satin than matt but anyway..) it was out with the Swissvax Opaque products..
As the car was only very lightly dusty it was pre washed with just clean water and then shampoo'd with the Opaque shampoo. The arches were then dressed earlier than usual as any slight product overspray would need to be cleaned of with the cleaner fluid as part of the next stage.
Back indoors the Opaque cleaner was sprayed on...
...spread and any greasy marks or bug splatter carefully rubbed with 1 MF cloth...
...and then before the cleaner fluid dries naturally its wiped with another clean dry MF cloth till any residue has vanished.
The wax was then applied with a foam pad and left to stand for 2-3 minutes per section
Seen here applied to half the bonnet..
The wax wipes on and buffs of easily. I found it best to remove with 2 MF cloths. 1st one to remove the worst of the residue and then a 2nd cleaner one to give a final 'smearless' wipe (as obviously it doesn't get clogged up with so much of the product... which is more greasy than regular waxes I felt)
You can see the subtle change to the depth of the paint here...
Wax applied..
..and removed but you can still see where it was applied..
..and from the side.. still easy to see the difference after waxing..
The rest of the paintwork was waxed panel at a time and left for 2-3 mins before buffing. The carbon roof was waxed with Zymol Vintage as this had a regular high gloss finish.
I've been using a newer product on the last few cars for plastics and rubbers. Phil from Shinearama kindly sent me some Carpro PERL. There are various dilution suggestions but I decided to just use it neat for the tyres and external plastics and the engine. Very simple to use.. just spray onto a foam pad and wipe on. I found I didn't need that much product to effectively cover a decent sized area (I had a 50ml sample and so far its done 3 cars plastics and tyres and I still have about 1/4 left)
The finish is lovely and not that shiny to look at and not at all greasy to touch. I've seen good reviews for the durability and from the feel of it on the tyres I'm hoping there will be no product sling either.
Big thumbs up from me and will definitely be ordering more of this product.
Applied to the engine bay..
Applying to the tyre (you can sort of see the 50/50)
You can also see it applied to the plastics and tyres of this GT3...
Back to the M3... the interior was then vacuumed and leather treated with Zaino Z10. Glass treated with RainX, wheels and exhaust with Blackfire metal sealant.
The car was given a final wipe with the Opaque quick finish and rolled outside for a few final photos...
Thanks for looking. Dont forget to add us on facebook or twitter if you enjoy our work
Nathan
Been rather busy recently so rather than do lots of write ups I'll pick this one out and for those that want to see what we have been up to you can view the photos of the other cars we have worked on in our portfolio on our website.
Click the thumbnails.
Well after owning this lovely white car for a relatively short time...
... the owner had the chance to swap into this brand new and mechanically identical Frozen Black M3...
Uber shiny white to matt black. I guess you couldn't get further apart
The car was brand new only having been driven from the dealers home so was just covered in a very light layer of dust.
Wheels cleaned in the usual manner with acid free cleaner and super degreaser.
Then as it was a matt car (the finish is actually more satin than matt but anyway..) it was out with the Swissvax Opaque products..
As the car was only very lightly dusty it was pre washed with just clean water and then shampoo'd with the Opaque shampoo. The arches were then dressed earlier than usual as any slight product overspray would need to be cleaned of with the cleaner fluid as part of the next stage.
Back indoors the Opaque cleaner was sprayed on...
...spread and any greasy marks or bug splatter carefully rubbed with 1 MF cloth...
...and then before the cleaner fluid dries naturally its wiped with another clean dry MF cloth till any residue has vanished.
The wax was then applied with a foam pad and left to stand for 2-3 minutes per section
Seen here applied to half the bonnet..
The wax wipes on and buffs of easily. I found it best to remove with 2 MF cloths. 1st one to remove the worst of the residue and then a 2nd cleaner one to give a final 'smearless' wipe (as obviously it doesn't get clogged up with so much of the product... which is more greasy than regular waxes I felt)
You can see the subtle change to the depth of the paint here...
Wax applied..
..and removed but you can still see where it was applied..
..and from the side.. still easy to see the difference after waxing..
The rest of the paintwork was waxed panel at a time and left for 2-3 mins before buffing. The carbon roof was waxed with Zymol Vintage as this had a regular high gloss finish.
I've been using a newer product on the last few cars for plastics and rubbers. Phil from Shinearama kindly sent me some Carpro PERL. There are various dilution suggestions but I decided to just use it neat for the tyres and external plastics and the engine. Very simple to use.. just spray onto a foam pad and wipe on. I found I didn't need that much product to effectively cover a decent sized area (I had a 50ml sample and so far its done 3 cars plastics and tyres and I still have about 1/4 left)
The finish is lovely and not that shiny to look at and not at all greasy to touch. I've seen good reviews for the durability and from the feel of it on the tyres I'm hoping there will be no product sling either.
Big thumbs up from me and will definitely be ordering more of this product.
Applied to the engine bay..
Applying to the tyre (you can sort of see the 50/50)
You can also see it applied to the plastics and tyres of this GT3...
Back to the M3... the interior was then vacuumed and leather treated with Zaino Z10. Glass treated with RainX, wheels and exhaust with Blackfire metal sealant.
The car was given a final wipe with the Opaque quick finish and rolled outside for a few final photos...
Thanks for looking. Dont forget to add us on facebook or twitter if you enjoy our work
Nathan
