40 Hours of Spit and Polish...PIC HEAVY

[ben_p]

Dirty boy

APC / PH Nutral

Lifting y0

Wheels with Bilbery Safe Wheel Cleaner

Clay Time...Used Sonus Green..Born Slipy lube...

Was like this all over..bloody track days!

Had to crack out the AG bug and tar remover as the front and wings were covered in it!

After .....

Now my camera skills suck so the pics are pretty poo but hey..

Drove the car into the garage to check out what I was dealing with...

Dull, flat , swirly rock hard paint..

boot

roof

Some bonnet afters...

50/50 on door

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/ben_p/?action=view&current=IMG_2513.jpg





50/50 on roof

Door after

Wing during

wing after

Roof after

Front wing during

General afters

MORE TO FOLLOW

 

[Brookie.]

:hail:

 

[Dunn]

awesome love how the colour transforms towards the end
when you put it in the garage are you just using clay to get rid of the swirls and to bring the colour out like that.i dont really know much about this

 

[Scott™]

f**k i love these before and afters! Gleaming mate. Absaloutly!

 

[nozza89]

wow!! top marks fella

 

[Gally]

Looks great mate, how's the rents enjoying Sky?

 

[Needster]

Lovely, Ben. Looks cracking.

I need mine sorting. Swirl bus .

 

[Beef-Mc]

Good effort.

 

[Edd]

That looks well worth the time/effort!

 

[Anth172]

Love it Ben, top work:approve:

 

[Clio-Ell]

awesome love how the colour transforms towards the end
when you put it in the garage are you just using clay to get rid of the swirls and to bring the colour out like that.i dont really know much about this

Brilliant effort, can't wait to see the finished shots. Those wheels are so shiny now.

Dunn: Clay removes dirt/tar from the paint which isn't removed by regular washing.

 

[Toby]

:race:

Love it!

 

[Aluco]

!!!!!!!
Awesome

 

[ben_p]

Cheers,

Interior was scrubbed down with APC and warm water then vac'd out.

Leather was cleaned with AG then treated with AG cream...

Dash wiped with APC then dressed with 303

Sills cleaned with APC then polised with AG SRP


No before shots but some afters...

Painted up the rear calipers as they looked pap!

Few of the brembo monoblock stoppers! Need to clean them up along with the arches...but not til after the ring'

Also

When I bought the car one of the things that always needed doing was the heavily curbed wheels|!

Having looked around at different companies who offer a service for the 19"s I decided to let a company in Widnes, Cheshire do them.

Dropped them off on the Monday and collected on the Wednesday! I only needed the faces grinding back and then polishing as the grey paint behind was in good nick! They have just changed the clear coat they use to really brighten the finish..

£180 for all 4 to be done which I was very impressed with! http://www.nationalalloys.co.uk/

Bloody cracking job IMO!

Pics..... (I re glued the badges in later) Sorry is some are blurry but my 400D is playing up!

Also gave the engine a good old steam clean and dressed it..

from this

To this

 

[chrispy.clio]

Looks so nice, feels good when you go it all yourself doesnt it

I thought you were selling it because Mr insurance man wanted to bend you over?

 

[Curtis!]

Wow your car was fucked

Some cracking good work done there.

 

[ben_p]

Looks so nice, feels good when you go it all yourself doesnt it

I thought you were selling it because Mr insurance man wanted to bend you over?

I just man'd up and paid up!

 

[GM_182]

Top work - Great car as well

 

[Curtis!]

Have you robbed that for sale sign off someone selling their house?!

 

[ben_p]

Have you robbed that for sale sign off someone selling their house?!

lol just a spare!

 

[Djw Dave]

Lovely car!

Would love a garage to work in

 

[EllD90]

Nice work! I'm sure you're happy it's all done now!

 

[vts_saxo]

Looks great!

 

[Alastair.]

looks ace!! so rewarding once you stand back and look at all the work you put into detailing a car

 

[Fletcher]

Good work, it looks great.

 

[Christopher]

Awesome work mate! Really impressed with the wheels too!

 

[Leeshez]

Stunning .

 

[.GAZ.]

Awesome mate. Looked s**t hot dirty too!

 

[Ian_182]

What a lovely lovely car.

Great effort...

 

[Kris86]

stunning is that Ben!! Love your car mate! You keeping this now then? When am i going to get a passenger ride that iv been promised for the past 6 months? hah!

What colour is it? just my eyes or it got abit of something else in it other than black? Like a purply/blue/black? I like

Wheels look spot on now too, need mine doing as i tw*tted the front left wheel doing a u turn outside of tesco express.

 

[MikeB]

Love these nice work

 

[GarethM]

very nice lad

 

[Paul RN]

Looks great, but you seriously have no life if you spent 40 hours doing that.

 

[ben_p]

Looks great, but you seriously have no life if you spent 40 hours doing that.

looks that way doesn't it!

 

[Andy-182]

loverly work, good effort

 

[Greeny.]

I miss seeing your black ph1 in that garage

Love the m3 tho