BMW X5 | 3-step + Waxxon wax | Detailed.

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J’ai bien aimé comment la X5 est arrivé dans mon entré entouré de 3 motos ! Vous étiez brave à 8 degrée celcius boys! Après avoir vendu sa belle voiture la saison passée, je le retrouve maintenant avec ce camion. Pas mal différent come contraste!

With that said, let’s jump to the core of the job :

Here’s how I got the car :

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Cleaning-step:

Voici comment je procède toujours pour la preparation d’un polissage:

1. Rinse the car to remove some dirt :

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2. I then foam the car:

Gotta love thick foam!
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3. I let the foam dwell and works in every crevice of the car and the meantime, I fill up my bucket.
Notice that my bucket have 4 grit guard to keep most of the dirt under the Guard.
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Oh yeah, you propably saw my natural sea sponge here.. well just a little extra luxury :)

4. Rinse again

5. Wash using the 2 bucket method.

6. Rinse

7. Time for the clay bar:

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Rough condition!

8. I then use a chemical decontaminant. I let the stuff work for 5-10 minutes. In the meantime, I wash the wheels.

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It’s working!
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9. Washing wheels: Here’s some tool I used
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10. I also use my brush to clean crevice and door molding:
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11. The owner asked me to remove the X5 badge, that was some hard work!
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It’s now gone:
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12. Okay so I think the vehicule is clean now.. let’s rinse it and dry it with a microfiber!

Now before I polish, I want to take some measure with my Defalsko paint gauge to make sure I can work without doing anything bad to the paint. This is excellent safety.

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As you can see the paint is quite messed up! I will try to make it more even/uniform by doing a 3-step polish. But before, I will tape my molding:
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Inspecting the paint.. uuummmm, this truck was in bad shape!
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• When I inspect the paint, I always use AT LEAST 2 different source of light ( usually it’s a sun-gun and a LED light) *

Test-spot.
This time I decide to do it differently.. let’s just do a square inside the swirled paint :p

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Sun gun, you can see the difference in Kelvin color:
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And under the shade:
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Looks good enough to me!! Let’s polish, we are finally ready! It’s important to not skip any of those step if you want a nicer finish. (better prep = better result!)

Here’s a 50/50 with the trim restorer:
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Applying Swissvax cleaner fluid to prep the paint for something quite unique..
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Polishing the door handle is very important for a nice finished result;
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Et maintenant la pièce de résistance :). Waxxon’s wax made by Raceglaze UK. 76% carnauba of pure p0rn! Haha!

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Le résultat final:

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Wheel well detailed :
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There’s no reason not to polish the top even tho the truck is like 7 feet tall!
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Here’s some after-picture of the interior.

Just did a leather cleaner + conditioner and a quick wipe + salt remover on the carpet done by the extractor.

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It was a pleasure to work on this truck, I think The wax added a nice depth to the paint. Even tho, it took me more times than I thought ( these trucks are huuuge lol!), I enjoyed working on this car. The result is rewarding!

See ya.

Pour une question de polissage réalisé à montreal.. alexandre.lemay @ hec . ca
For more info regarding this polishing job, detailing , done in the greater Montreal , please contact me at alexandre.lemay @ hec . ca
 
nice gloss, beau résultat final! Domage que tu parles de toutes les étapes sauf du polisage! :p
 
Looks really, nice.....I'm excited to see how mine turns out tomorrow seeing how I'm next in line !!!

See you in least than 12 houra LOLL ( that's funny haha, but true!)

nice gloss, beau résultat final! Domage que tu parles de toutes les étapes sauf du polisage! :p

C'est dure prendre des photos tout en polissant, ya know !?!

Wow amazing work again

Belle job, beau wet look! *tu*

Thanks!!
 
belle job belle job..c'est tu moi ou la couleur des mag fais bizard avec le truck

on dirais des vieux trim qui on secher au soleil lol
 
meme pour des mags peinturer a cacane???

Essaye-le. Je peinture pas mes rims à la canette.

belle job belle job..c'est tu moi ou la couleur des mag fais bizard avec le truck

on dirais des vieux trim qui on secher au soleil lol

Vielle trims? Non. Ils étaient bien normale,à mon avis. pas plus user que d'habitude.

Perso, noir sur noir j'aime ça. Ça fait PATRON :p Que ce soit flat black ou clear black, ça m'importe peu. :) Anyways, c'est pas mon auto non-plus :) Faudrait demandé au proprio s'il aime ça.

good job!! merci ;)


Fait plaisir big baws!
Belle job Alex! Et j'aime pas vraiment ces X5 la, mais lui y'es rendu clean!

Merci bien, le owner est aussi bien content d'avoir une auto clean :p
 
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