I have given up and embraced the horror

[VanM3Lover]

Loving my jet black that I just washed, clay barred, polished and waxed last week. I do this once a year. I take extreme care of the paint, it has very minimal swirls. There were a lot of very bad watermarks from rain and quick wash without drying, light cut polishing takes care of this. Car is beautiful like new now!

ps. To minimize swirls, I use 3 buckets of water, wash the top, hood and chunk first, then the middle part of the car, at last the most dirty part of the car which is the lower part. A good hand wash of the car with really clean wheels and drying takes more than 2 hours.

[xquisit]

I miss my first car, a jet black e90 330i (leased in 06).

I wish I took care of it, because it would've still been here.

Needless to say, I really didn't wash it much... but when it was clean, it looked amazing!



For cars, is it true? Once you go black, you can never go back?

[markjord]

The main problem is the dealer. I bought mine second hand from a main dealer. It was OK when I tested in. A week later they delivered it having kindly cleaned and polished it for me. Enough said - swirls everywhere. Big improvement using 3M Finesse-It but not perect. Still, the carbon roof looks good. And the bonnet gets a respray next week to get rid of all the stone chips from the winter of salt and grit (also got a new windscreen fitted).
I'd never buy black again.

[bobbyd1961]

lemans blue. i walk backwards when i leave my car cause it looks so dam good. i look rediculous but i dont care

[e46e92love]

This is why I own Silver colors, because I used to own a detail company, so swirls and scratches drive me crazy. With silver, it always looks perfect

Cheers,
e46e92

[Doctor J]

Originally Posted by quality_sound

This is so wrong it hurts. Wax has NOTHING to do with swirls. Wax is a sealant, nothing more. The only way to not get swirls is to be careful washing and drying and even then it's going to happen, just at a much slower rate.

Imbecile! you didn't comprehend what I said

I meant the only way to cover the inevitable swirls is to wax/polish after every wash.

[Poppin Fresh]

Solution: get it professionally detailed + clear bra the entire car = no more swirls. That's what I would have done. Not the most cost effective but it protects your paint overall.

[besiktas]

Originally Posted by e46e92love

This is why I own Silver colors, because I used to own a detail company, so swirls and scratches drive me crazy. With silver, it always looks perfect

Cheers,
e46e92

Same here, salt chips on silverstone is not that visible. I wonder if anyone used the "fix it" stuff, i wonder if it works

[quality_sound]

Originally Posted by Doctor J

Imbecile! you didn't comprehend what I said

I meant the only way to cover the inevitable swirls is to wax/polish after every wash.

You, sir, are the imbicile. I comprehended what you said. You're just talking out of your ass. Wax doesn't hide anything. Wax will give you shiny swirls. The only way to hide swirls is with something with fillers, like a glaze.

Try again, imbicile.

[quality_sound]

Originally Posted by Poppin Fresh

Solution: get it professionally detailed + clear bra the entire car = no more swirls. That's what I would have done. Not the most cost effective but it protects your paint overall.

Clear bars will still swirls and are infinitle harder to get swirls out of. But no more rock chips. Pick your poison basically.