ScheerSpeed: E92 335i Track car Revived!

[ScheerSpeed]

this car had some very bad oxidation on the vorsteiner hood and especially the vorsteiner trunklid. it took quite a bit of polishing to remove it all, but the results were amazing!

Wash
-Chemical Guys Citrus Wash
-P21s TAW

Wheels
-P21s Gel
-Ace Powerstick
-EZ Detail Brush
-SV brushes

Clay
-Special yellow poly clay
-ONR lube


Polishing
-Exterior paint
-Meg's M105 / Yellow Uber Pad
-Menzerna SIP / Orange Uber pad
-Menzerna PO85RD Micro Polish / blue Uber pad
-Makita 9227C
-3M Yellow Foam Backing Plate
-1000w halogen lights
-Menzerna Top Inspection
-DD über MF towels
-Racatac

LSP

-Paint
-1Z Glanz Wax

-Wheels
-Poorboy's wheel sealant

Glass
-Adam's Glass Cleaner

Interior
-1Z Cockpit
-Chemical Guy's Leather cleaner
-Leather Masters Vital / Protection
-Adam's Glass Cleaner
-1Z Gummi Pflege

metal
-Optimum Metal Polish
-#0000 steel wool


Before:

In these pictures you can really see how the sun had taken a toll on the carbon fiber parts.


















Here's a scratch from someone keying the car. i used a kit from Dr. Colorchip to fix it, and for my first time using their kit it was a very good product!




and another








back to the before pictures





the clay came out extremely dirty, this picture was after doing the top of the trunklid




For the first attempt to remove the heavy oxidation on the trunklid and hood i tried SIP with an orange pad on the trunklid. in this picture you can see it made a HUGE difference, however after wiping the section down with Menzerna Top Inspection, the surface underneath still was not perfect.

the middle part had not been touched and the two sides were polished.



here you can see after SIP there was still some cloudiness to the finish






thus i decided i needed to go more agressive and use M105 and a yellow Uber cutting pad to get out all the oxidation

here's how the hood looked before polishing it with M105





and after (please dont mind the smear marks from the polishing residue)






a picture of us working







Finished!











Perfect







the result of the touch-up























Finished Engine bay



it took from 8am until 11pm working straight only taking 1 hour off for lunch to complete this detail.

Thanks for looking,
Dom

[thegeneral101]

still detailing huh! nice

maybe il see you at dadeland parking garage again sometime haha

[r_seng]

[thegeneral101]

yep pics aren't working

[ScheerSpeed]

fixed!

[Alekshop]

good job guys !

[tunnie]

about how long before the oxidation comes back on the hood and trunk. estimate?

[ScheerSpeed]

Originally Posted by tunnie

about how long before the oxidation comes back on the hood and trunk. estimate?

technically it could never come back as long as the owner takes proper care of it. it only got that bad because the owner never washes the car and had only waxed it 2-3 times since 2007 and it sits outside every day

[Kyoshi71]

Great Job

[ScheerSpeed]

thanks!

[kmac1980]

Originally Posted by ScheerSpeed

technically it could never come back as long as the owner takes proper care of it. it only got that bad because the owner never washes the car and had only waxed it 2-3 times since 2007 and it sits outside every day

that is the killer part i think, you need double the maintenance of a garaged car...

nice work though