Finally, success detailing Silver Grey

[Benderloch]

Over the last year I have had a number of attempts at improving the finish on my silver grey coupe without much success. I fully decontaminated the paint starting with a thorough going over with a clay bar and then a polish with a mild cutting material before trying different protection products. I started with Bilt Hambers double speed wax that gets good reviews, well I try everything with this stuff but couldn’t get a decent result at all. I then splashed out on the new turtle wax graphene spray wax which was much better but not great with light colours.
This week I decided to try again and started over with clay bar then sorted out a few stone chips before using Auto Finesse triple polish. This gave a good result, however it is a product that can have a wax used on top of it, so decided to try Soft 99s Kiwami light wax on top. Well I am finally happy with the resulting finish.


Hope someone finds this of value

Cheers.

 

[Phoenixboy]

looks great, good effort....

 

[BeeEmm]

The car looks really good. Well done.

 

[idej_z4]

Car looks good. I started out using Soft 99s, found it to be a really good entry-level price wax with good 6-month protection.

 

[Zedebee]

Soft 99 Kiwami black on mine

 

[JK0202]

Over the last year I have had a number of attempts at improving the finish on my silver grey coupe without much success. I fully decontaminated the paint starting with a thorough going over with a clay bar and then a polish with a mild cutting material before trying different protection products. I started with Bilt Hambers double speed wax that gets good reviews, well I try everything with this stuff but couldn’t get a decent result at all. I then splashed out on the new turtle wax graphene spray wax which was much better but not great with light colours.
This week I decided to try again and started over with clay bar then sorted out a few stone chips before using Auto Finesse triple polish. This gave a good result, however it is a product that can have a wax used on top of it, so decided to try Soft 99s Kiwami light wax on top. Well I am finally happy with the resulting finish. 96638A02-7328-4063-B2D0-03FD7E7DEA66.jpeg
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Hope someone finds this of value

Cheers.

Looks stunning! 8)

How did you treat stone chips? I've got a couple of pesky ones I'm eyeing up! Very much a newbie to the detailing scene. Got a lot of the gear (Xmas\birthday gifts) but no idea!

 

[Benderloch]

How did you treat stone chips? I've got a couple of pesky ones I'm eyeing up! Very much a newbie to the detailing scene. Got a lot of the gear (Xmas\birthday gifts) but no idea!

At the moment I’m just using a touch up kit from BMW. I would advise getting it from them if you want a good colour match.

 

[JK0202]

How did you treat stone chips? I've got a couple of pesky ones I'm eyeing up! Very much a newbie to the detailing scene. Got a lot of the gear (Xmas\birthday gifts) but no idea!

At the moment I’m just using a touch up kit from BMW. I would advise getting it from them if you want a good colour match.

Thanks. Did you just contact your local dealer for the kit?

 

[Benderloch]

Thanks. Did you just contact your local dealer for the kit?

I got mine from a bmw dealer on eBay. My local BMW dealer is not that local

 

[cococola]

The paintwork has a wet look because the shine is so good,well done

 

[buzyg]

Gorgeous deep shine. Well worth all of your efforts. 8)

 

[IRD]

Great job, well done. It is really satisfying when you get a good result.

 

[curvature]

Same colour as mine.

It looks really good so will give that polish a try as I was considering ceramic coating but quite like polishing my new toy.

 

[Johnny h]

Over the last year I have had a number of attempts at improving the finish on my silver grey coupe without much success. I fully decontaminated the paint starting with a thorough going over with a clay bar and then a polish with a mild cutting material before trying different protection products. I started with Bilt Hambers double speed wax that gets good reviews, well I try everything with this stuff but couldn’t get a decent result at all. I then splashed out on the new turtle wax graphene spray wax which was much better but not great with light colours.
This week I decided to try again and started over with clay bar then sorted out a few stone chips before using Auto Finesse triple polish. This gave a good result, however it is a product that can have a wax used on top of it, so decided to try Soft 99s Kiwami light wax on top. Well I am finally happy with the resulting finish. 96638A02-7328-4063-B2D0-03FD7E7DEA66.jpeg
70D1B3E3-66DF-420D-9503-0C2D202EE421.jpeg

Hope someone finds this of value

Cheers.

Impressive, do love a good shine, Going to try the clay bar. Usually got for traffic film remover then auto glym snow foam, then the magma (but not often as instructed) dried with was spray and microfibre cloth followed by heat dryer for all the nooks and crannies the auto glym super resin polish..detailed the engine again yesterday!! :wink:

 

[pvr]

I used Dr ColourChip for the cars, it is simply a wipe on, wipe off method and as the paint does not stick to the top layer it will only remove it from there, and not from the chip you just filled. Make a mess and with the alcohol solution you can remove it all back, really easy and fool proof.

The touch up paint from the manufacturer always made a blob or other unsightly result. Have a look at their videos, cannot be simpler to apply.

 

[Johnny h]

I used Dr ColourChip for the cars, it is simply a wipe on, wipe off method and as the paint does not stick to the top layer it will only remove it from there, and not from the chip you just filled. Make a mess and with the alcohol solution you can remove it all back, really easy and fool proof.

The touch up paint from the manufacturer always made a blob or other unsightly result. Have a look at their videos, cannot be simpler to apply.

Cheers, do have a few chips on the Z4 and the wife's golf that niggle me