Getting ready for bimmerfest

[Gayle]

Last year after bimmerfest, Califblue (Mike) helped me detail my engine and become the queen of engine bling.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/5.jpg

This year, after I made comments in a thread that I thought Josh (Liquidtiger) was such a great detailer, Califblue was like “Fine, get him to help you detail your car.” I was like “you help me get my paint on my hood looking good and I will issue a public retraction. He did and here it is.

MIKE—YOU ARE THE DETAILING GOD. There are you happy now?

Here is a before picture. Mine is on the right and Josh’s car is on the left. Mine is aw2 and his is aw3, so his paint is a whiter white than mine. But that aside, my hood was more yellow than my fenders. The body guy at the indy thinks the hood has been resprayed and the paint doesn’t match. It was dull and needed a treatment of paint polish. I had clayed it a couple of time, but I had used klasse-all-in-one so it had never had a good polish step.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h235/Bimmerfest06/3shamedSmall.jpg

[Gayle]

I have a porter cable and ever product praised on roadfly and autopia’s detailing website. Mike has a brand he prefers and that is what we used. He swore me to secrecy. He had a number of amazing specialty products. After each one, my reaction was WOW! His products truly were superior.

He applied product and I followed him and removed it. As he is applying product with the porter cable, he says “well now I can say I have touched every part of your body”. Ha, Ha.

Here is a picture that shows the truck after the paint polish. The side have the old product stripped off but they have not been treated.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/1-3.jpg


Here is some spots that got missed the first time in the paint polishing. You can see the difference.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/2-3.jpg

[Gayle]

We cleaned and polished everything. Did the painted parts of the engine, the door jams, polished the eisenmann, and we put it up on jack stands to make doing the inside of the m pars easy.

Here are the results. My hood and fenders now appear to be one color again. That is a miracle.


http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/3-3.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/4-3.jpg

[Gayle]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/5-3.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/6-2.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/7-2.jpg

[Gayle]

Mike claims that flys break there legs landing on his car. I had to have the obligatory joke picture of the fly with the broken leg on my roof.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/8-1.jpg

At the end of the day, we just stood around and looked at it. Here is Mike polishing one more spot.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/9-2.jpg

This picture was taken at dusk. I thought it was cool cause it looks like the lights are on, but they are not. Just flash.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/e34Gayle/10.jpg


So public thank you Mike for helping me and public praises of your detailing abilities.

[liquidtiger720]

So Mike, you going to do mine now?

I don't even have time to wash my car nowadays...its looking pretty bad.

[CharlesAFerg]

Engine bay needs work on my car, I've cleaned it by hand, but never took the time to put aluminum foil and crap over everything and soak it with degreasers and all that junk.

[SC David]

So Mike, you going to do mine now?

I don't even have time to wash my car nowadays...its looking pretty bad.I saw it parked on Lincoln on Saturday I think, and it looked pretty clean to me. I just washed and waxed mine on Friday, and it's already covered in dust.

I wish I had a bimmerfest to detail for :(:(:(

[califblue]

Gayle, you are to kind and gracious!

I am glad that Charlie is back to prime show winnin' condition (wish I could say the same about the Fly:D )

Let me put this in prospective for everyone:
when she arrived my VW THING which only gets waxed once a year for a THING event ..had its paint looking better:( I had had to pull out all the tricks but with an enthusiastic helper ( Gayle)...the results will be seen in the larger photos.

Even my neighbors were impressed...And that is a whole 'nother story ( 100 point show cars that they drive!)

1956 T-Bird ( second owner)
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f107/califblue/P1011518.jpg

1967 SS 396 Chevelle ( original owner)
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f107/califblue/P1011528.jpg

[Jehu]

I'll just mention to help you lucky bums appreciate your good fortune even more than you do that it has been consistantly way too cold and snowy here for the past about 8 weeks to do anything other than drive thru the touchless carwash a few times.My rims haven't been polished since early December!The car hasn't been polished since October never mind waxed..The squeeze on Zimol polish FROZE on the polishing wheel last time i tried... ok?
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/4286/snowyaj1.jpg

Don't bother telling me i need a car cover either.I took it off after a snow storm a few weeks ago and put it, covered and stifff with ice and snow crust into the back of the Van where it has sat frozen stuck to the floor of the Van till this day.. nice...

[Alexlind123]

I'll just mention to help you lucky bums appreciate your good fortune even more than you do that it has been consistantly way too cold and snowy here for the past about 8 weeks to do anything other than drive thru the touchless carwash a few times.My rims haven't been polished since early December!The car hasn't been polished since October never mind waxed..The squeeze on Zimol polish FROZE on the polishing wheel last time i tried... ok?
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/4286/snowyaj1.jpg

Don't bother telling me i need a car cover either.I took it off after a snow storm a few weeks ago and put it, covered and stifff with ice and snow crust into the back of the Van where it has sat frozen stuck to the floor of the Van till this day.. nice...

Hah, you dont know what good fortune you have concerning keeping your car clean until you see my driveway...

http://p.qrs0.net/alex/speedbump.JPG

edit: you can see the pile of gravel my neighbor keeps by his speedbump to maintain the height at a ludicrous level. Granted, its not nearly as bad now as it used to be, but still...insanity at work here.

[Jehu]

i;d send the Elves out with some shovels tonight and get rid of that stupidity. I hate speed bumps and people who like them.

[califblue]

Gayle, please resize the photos to show everyone how Good your car looks:D ...
FYI it looks better than mine right now and that is saying alot
( I haven't waxed mine since last year the day before bimmerfest when the Crank Position Sensor (CPS) went south:( ..it still looks better than 90% of all the cars on the road;) )

[Gayle]

Bump because I fixed the picture size. I had loaded them to photobucket with the thumbnail size option accidentally selected from the last thing I loaded there.