Paint Correction and Prep for Opti Coat application on BMW 550i

Paint Correction and Prep for Opti Coat application on BMW 550iThe BMW 550i you will see in this write up is a daily driven car for a customer that is on the road 7 days a week for work. It has seen quite a bit in its 8-12 months on the road.
Take a look at what we do to prep this one for Optimum Opti Coat.

Subject: BMW 550I
Requirements: Prepare the paint for Optimum Opti Coat application

Exterior

– Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
– Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
– Wheel wells were cleaned up
– Washed with Adam’s Car Wash
– Decon with Wolf’s Decon Gel
– Wash down and rinsed
– Door jambs were cleaned up
– Nano Scrub AutoScrub
– Dried
– Tires dressed
– Masking
– Paint Measurement
– Compounds – Meguiar’s M101 / Menzerna FG400
– Final Polish – Sonax Nano Polish
– Last step – Opti Coat
– Inspection with Fenix, Brinkmann, and natural sunlight
– Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
– Rubber and Plastics Treated
– Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
– Exhaust tips cleaned
– Windows were auto scrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used –

Adam’s Car Wash
Wolf’s Decon Gel – Iron Remover
Stoner’s Tarminator
Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Meguiar’s M101
Menzerna FG400
Sonax Nano Polish 3/6
Optimum Opti Coat
Adam’s Super VRT
Auto Finesse Crystal Glass Cleaner
Auto Finesse Mercury Metal Polish

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Griot’s 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes LHR75
Rupes BigFoot LHR 21ES Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes BigFoot LHR 15ES Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Uber Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Adam’s Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Prep – Clean wheels and tires/Engine Bay/Decon/Wash/NanoSkin AutoScrub

Customer requested to debadge the Xdrive emblem.

Paint Correction – Meg’s M101 as well as Menzerna FG400 were used on this job, to finish it out and bring up a gloss we used Sonax Nano Polish.

Before shot after prepping the car for correction.

50/50 shots

Rupes LHR 75 working on some tight spots

After correction shots

After shots

Hope you enjoyed our detail write up.