[tachyon]

I saw this post on Autopia the other day and was completely blown away with this work. I've never seen anything like it.

How about a 5-step polishing process!

• Meguiars 105 Via 3M Wool
  
• Menzerna Super Intensive Polish via LC orange pad
  
• Menzerna Super Intensive Polish via green LC medium polishing pad
  
• Menzerna 106ff via white LC Polishing Pad
  
• Menzerna 85rd via black LC pad

Check out the full post for a comprehensive write-up of the detailing ... and lots of photos. Here are a few money shots ...

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[CCS]

Beautiful work on a beautiful car!! I love interlagos blue

[CWS530]

I just want to jump in there and splash around.

[skeeter]

It looks good, but why do they have to photo shop it....Its hard to tell how good it is with the all the photoshop work done....

[hiepsta]

very nice !!!

[poleposition]

Looks like HDR to me.

[BlaSTiWi]

Yep for sure on the 1st pic ...

poleposition, on Jun 14 2009, 05:37 PM, said:

Looks like HDR to me.

[tex_phil]

poleposition, on Jun 14 2009, 05:37 PM, said:

Looks like HDR to me.

Haha +1

[sdg1871]

Beautiful pics.

I sooo much want an Interlagos Blue M5.

One day...

[NeRwEEzy]

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[Milko75]

Amazing shine and amazing car!

[hmuchmo1]

Fabulous depth and shine..great attention to all the little details.

I wont argue the result.. only the process to how they got there. And hopefully prevent anyone on here from ruining their paint!
Because I was a little taken back with someone using meguires #105 on that new of a car.. its literally designed to polish out a 1200grit sandpapering. And if you go look at the autopia site where this was posted at, the car had some bad areas on it, but hopefully not requiring using #105 on the whole car just in spots.
Meguires list the #105 as a 12 on a scale of 1-12 for abrasiveness especially since they used steel wool, thereby the detailer took a LOT of clear coat off that car!

That was totally unnecessary unless the car really really really needed it.. which is debateable.

I don't think I have never used more than a #66 unless the car was heavily oxidized, scratched and swirled, and then I would see what an #82 or #83 does first before going to 85,95, or 105..

I get all my stuff from www.autogeek.net

[craigm1841]

it would be nice to see the car with regular camera settings. that is just cheeseball to boast about a detail, then show non-traditional camera setting photos. i could make a picture of my dogs turd shiny with my camera.

[pdawg74]

craigm1841, on Jun 15 2009, 12:45 PM, said:

it would be nice to see the car with regular camera settings. that is just cheeseball to boast about a detail, then show non-traditional camera setting photos. i could make a picture of my dogs turd shiny with my camera.

+1

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[tachyon]

craigm1841, on Jun 15 2009, 05:45 PM, said:

it would be nice to see the car with regular camera settings. that is just cheeseball to boast about a detail, then show non-traditional camera setting photos. i could make a picture of my dogs turd shiny with my camera.

Well, if you click on the link to view the original post you will see 80 regular camera setting photos of a very thorough detailing process ... with only a few "cheeseball" non-traditional photos at the end. I chose to show a couple of the HDRs here because I thought they showed off the M5 really well, in addition to the stunning regular photos. Go take a look for yourself.