New Frozen Black M3 ZCP waxed and detailed no problem!

[dardeca]

Best looking M3 I've EVER seen! Congrats!

[tlav17]

wow that looks amazing. are the gt3 and superleggera yours too? If so, you have great taste in cars

[DEJI]

OMG. you did a good job man.
sweeeetttttt!

[Naru]

Your car looks great.

[PaulBailey@ltbmw]

Incredible!

[yuyue]

I think I just saw a superleggera

[nlpamg]

lol, nice!

[motortrend]

Originally Posted by 9378max

moar pics of the superleggera por favor?

THIS, also, great looking car

[auggiem3]

very nice. is that a UK special edition or did you have your wheels painted/powder coated? I also noticed a black grill kit. Great looking car...

[Ky1M]

Originally Posted by PeteUWO

So I got my new frozen black car detailed! It is perfectly possible to wax and care for frozen paint (see BMW's warning against waxing/polishing), it just needs the right products. In this case, I bought some Swissvax Opaque wax and cleaners which have been developed for matt colours and got my detailer round to do his stuff.

I have cut and pasted his write up from his own site below. Mods - apologies for the watermarks on the photos etc. My guy only covers a small piece of the UK so hopefully isn't treading on any sponsors toes...


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The car was brand new only having been driven from the dealers home so was just covered in a very light layer of dust

Wheels cleaned in the usual manner with acid free cleaner and super degreaser. Then as it was a matt car (the finish is actually more satin than matt but anyway..) it was out with the Swissvax Opaque products.

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As the car was only very lightly dusty it was pre washed with just clean water and then shampoo'd with the Opaque shampoo. The arches were then dressed earlier than usual as any slight product overspray would need to be cleaned of with the cleaner fluid as part of the next stage.

Back indoors the Opaque cleaner was sprayed on...

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...spread and any greasy marks or bug splatter carefully rubbed with 1 MF cloth...

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...and then before the cleaner fluid dries naturally its wiped with another clean dry MF cloth till any residue has vanished.

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The wax was then applied with a foam pad and left to stand for 2-3 minutes per section, seen here applied to half the bonnet...

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The wax wipes on and buffs of easily. I found it best to remove with 2 MF cloths. 1st one to remove the worst of the residue and then a 2nd cleaner one to give a final 'smearless' wipe (as obviously it doesn't get clogged up with so much of the product... which is more greasy than regular waxes I felt).

You can see the subtle change to the depth of the paint here. Wax applied...

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..and removed but you can still see where it was applied...

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..and from the side.. still easy to see the difference after waxing...

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The rest of the paintwork was waxed panel at a time and left for 2-3 mins before buffing. The carbon roof was waxed with Zymol Vintage as this had a regular high gloss finish.

I've been using a newer CPX PERL product on the last few cars for plastics and rubbers. There are various dilution suggestions but I decided to just use it neat for the tyres and external plastics and the engine. Very simple to use.. just spray onto a foam pad and wipe on. I found I didn't need that much product to effectively cover a decent sized area (I had a 50ml sample and so far its done 3 cars plastics and tyres and I still have about 1/4 left)

The finish is lovely and not that shiny to look at and not at all greasy to touch. I've seen good reviews for the durability and from the feel of it on the tyres I'm hoping there will be no product sling either.

Big thumbs up from me and will definitely be ordering more of this product. Applied to the engine bay....

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Applying to the tyre (you can sort of see the 50/50)...

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You can also see it applied to the plastics and tyres of the owners GT3...

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Back to the M3... the interior was then vacuumed and leather treated with Zaino Z10. Glass treated with RainX, wheels and exhaust with Blackfire metal sealant.

The car was given a final wipe with the Opaque quick finish and rolled outside for a few final photos...

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Thanks for looking.

So are you the owner of the swissvax
Products or the detail company? Either way very nice car how many of these were even sold ? Thanks for the awesome pics!!!!

[ahmed_fawzy]

Your car is sick.

[Sylon]

Car looks great! And its nice that matte paint owners can have better piece of mind about their car's finish now.


So I would assume that with this new layer of wax that the paint has a little more protection against bugs and other elements?

[VenomBMW]

You own a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggara? Man post some pictures of that

[BGM]

that your garage?

get the green lambo out!! :O

[datbimmerdoe]

looks awesome!

[M5007]

Love that look.

[F32Fleet]

Let us know once it's had it's tenth waxing.

[johnca]

look great

[mkPOTO]

very nice looks good

[Fraggy]

Am I the only person who thinks these matt finish cars look dull and unfinished? Then to wax it on top of it??? F'ing weird. I guess I am the weird one since all other comments are positive.

[BimmerJackal]

Awesome ! Looks great !

[ki__]

Look great, nice job!