***Its not everyday we showcase an average everyday detail that comes into the shop. This is why we love what we do. Bringing life to daily driven enthusiast cars, to refresh them and protect them from their normal wear and tear owners put them through. We love being able to take a car in, that is obvious it will benefit and transform it in a day to return it to a very happy customer by days end. Total working hours spent on this detail was about 14 man hours, done in an 8 hour work day by several of the NWAS guys.***
The other day we had a black E46 M3 that came in for our Enthusiast Detail and Interior Detail PLUS. Getting one of our most popular detail packages we took this one above and beyond the expectations and demands needing to be met for the detail package. Not to say it wasn’t nice, but once we got up close it was clear this car needed a lot of work in the day we had it. Severe swirl marks throughout the entire car, sludge filled locks, drains filled with dirt and leaves, were just a couple of the things that needed correction on this car. On the interior, the carpets were in need of shampooing/steam cleaning, the beautiful piano black trim needed some love and coffee stains eradicated. The once polished aluminum lips of the wheels looked almost brushed! It really needed some serious work but yet again, the guys did an extremely impressive job of bringing this car back to life.
The detail itself included a regularly thorough wash prep and clay and then we moved onto a regular two stage foam buff and polish which yielded 80-85% paint correction (meaning we removed 80-85% of all surface imperfections present, leaving behind the heavy isolated scratches and other blemishes not removed with our paint correction level with this package). The rims took a bit more care to restore the original satin finish on the wheel centers of the iForged wheels and a machine polish completed the improvements we were able to get out of the wheels, which we sealed all in using Swissvax Autobahn, a PTFE based wheel wax used to protect your wheels against brake dust pitting and corrosion in the future. The exhaust tips were thoroughly cleaned and re-polished to a like new finish as well. Take a look through these before and afters and hope you enjoy this writeup on a more average type detail we do here at NWAS.
Exterior Before
Interior Before
Some of the washing process
And now for some before and afters
And now for some finished shots!
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I have a black car myself, and I am still amazed at the Before & After pics….AWESOME JOB!!!!