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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 08:54 PM
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Busy Weekend

More like week/weekend lol. Two new customers. Full correction on a BMW X5 and just a polish/seal/wax job on a new Subaru WRX.

Anyways, here are the BMW pics with before/afters







































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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 08:55 PM
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 08:56 PM
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Just afters of the WRX, was in pretty good shape to start with and wasnt a full correction.





































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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 08:57 PM
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how much do you charge for a detail? lol nice work
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:00 PM
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yeah man you do great work and how do you get around the emblems
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:02 PM
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depends on what kind of job it is

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yeah man you do great work and how do you get around the emblems
just gotta be careful

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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:04 PM
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Nice work! The BMW didn't look to bad to start with but now it looks great.
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:07 PM
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Nice work! The BMW didn't look to bad to start with but now it looks great.
lol did you see the swirls...

flake hides alot, but the lighting pics show them pretty well
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:11 PM
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For carpets and stuff are you using an extractor, or hand scrubbing/vacuum??
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:17 PM
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The subby looks sik!! Nice job
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:17 PM
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nice work.
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:18 PM
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For carpets and stuff are you using an extractor, or hand scrubbing/vacuum??
shop vac, spot remover
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:23 PM
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Cool.. My customers always love the lines in the carpet.. I swear i could just do the lines and nothing else on the inside and they'd be happy lol
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:29 PM
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Cool.. My customers always love the lines in the carpet.. I swear i could just do the lines and nothing else on the inside and they'd be happy lol
i dont know why they are so cool, but they are
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 11:12 PM
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i dont know why they are so cool, but they are
Agreed

Looks awesome. Are you using a Flex DA?
The WRX looks realllllllly nice and blue. Great job!
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 11:13 PM
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nah, just a PC7424
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 01:01 AM
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What exactly is the process of a "correction?"

My last car (Red Grand Prix) could have used one. No matter how I polished, waxed, etc...it could never come out THAT good. I could get rid of a lot of the swirls, but not all of them...
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 01:29 AM
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poke around in the detailing section
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 01:36 AM
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nice work man
you're the best
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by hatrickstu
poke around in the detailing section
Ahhhh...DUH. I should have looked.

It looks like you do everything I do, except I never thought of "compounding" which probably would have gotten rid of the rest of my scratches and swirls on the Grand Prix. Maybe I'll try that on the Balt this spring...the paint is still pretty new and doesn't look like it needs it yet, but after the winter.....bleghh...

I guess for what it's worth, the first thing said about my GTP when I was selling it was "Wow, that paint is amazing!" So I guess I can't feel too bad. But you work definitely outshines mine! Nice work
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 06:08 AM
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I love that suby blue. It just pops so nice when its all cleaned up.
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 11:02 AM
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yea the paint itself is awesome for a factory color.

the paintjob on this car SUCKED though. bad enough id take it back and demand it be repainted, seriously. it had a very obvious purple run in the paint on the rear bumper about 3 inches long, as well as some weird markings on the roof that almost looked like someone tried to color sand it and left grooves, then it also had raised blue spots that looked like the color started to flake off and clear sprayed over it. owner was not happy when i showed him these things
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 03:44 PM
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Good work. Are those 315s on the back of that X5? lol
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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 04:51 PM
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sure are
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