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      02-03-2012, 08:25 AM   #1
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Subject: Tsioms 1Addict Member's BMW 135i
Requirements: Quick Interior, Quick Engine Clean Up, Exterior Winter Prep, customer requested to install black out grills

Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Pre Washed with W99
- Iron Cut
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Clayed
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Wolf's Shine and Seal
- Wheel wells were cleaned
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed
- Engine Cleaned and Dressed
- Interior wiped down and vac

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Adam's All Purpose Cleaner
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
Uber Clay Bar Kit
Wolf's Shine and Seal
Adam's Super VRT
Adam's Glass Cleaner
Sonax Glass Cleaner
Wolf's Chemicals Glass Guard
Wolf's Chemicals Rim Shield
1Z einszett Cockpit

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Porter Cable 7424XP
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Interior Before


Vac


After




Before shots








Prep - Pre Wash, Rinse, Iron Cut, Rinse, Clay, Wheels, Tires

Wheels before


Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner in action


APC on tires



Pre Wash



Rinse


Iron Cut



Rinse


Dry


Clay


Before Engine



After



The Wolf Pack for the final steps


Glass cleaned with Sonax Glass then sealed with Wolf's Glass Guard



Wolf's Shine and Seal applied


Wolf's Rim Shield


Time to remove the grills and install the black ones






Nice touch matches the color and trim very well


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      02-03-2012, 11:42 AM   #2
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Great work on the 135i Phil!
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      02-03-2012, 11:45 AM   #3
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thanks!
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      02-03-2012, 11:56 AM   #4
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Wow! I need to do that to mine!
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      03-05-2012, 09:41 PM   #5
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Awesome!
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      03-07-2012, 05:19 AM   #6
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Phil,

Just for interest's sake, what do you charge a client for this entire process? it seems like a hell of a lot of work on this 1er, probably 10Hours over 2/3 days?
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