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dann2707
Posted 14/3/2012 5:03 PM (#651801)
Subject: Tidied up a BMW 330D estate...


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Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours.		Hey.

Dad has been helping out a friend and doing some work on this BMW. And I've been pretty bored today with my day off Uni and felt well sorry for the state it was in. It's just a work horse, never cleaned.

Nothing special at all really, was doing it just to kill a few hours.

Process was

-- Shuts done with APC and a detailing brush

-- 2BM with Citrus Wash And Gloss, using a grout sponge

-- Dried with ASDA drying towel

-- Waxed with Collinite #915

-- Trims darkened with Poundshop darkener


Befores:










Tight work









Wheels were absolutely shocking









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Then cleaned.






















Reason for 2BM









And finally waxed and trims attended to. Final shots.




















My fav pic, after playing with the curves on PS. with a lil gaussen blur.








Enjoy!
111Sli
Posted 14/3/2012 5:10 PM (#651802 - in reply to #651801)
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Location: Bromley, Kent		Nice job! :o At the rust though!
dann2707
Posted 14/3/2012 5:17 PM (#651804 - in reply to #651801)
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Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours.		Cheers, and yeah its absolutely shocking. the whole car is, full of dints, scrapes, lacquer peel. Bit of a shame when cars that could be decent get neglected so bad.
petrol_head
Posted 14/3/2012 5:43 PM (#651808 - in reply to #651801)
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drive it like its hired

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its 12 years old!
dann2707
Posted 14/3/2012 6:14 PM (#651811 - in reply to #651801)
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Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours.		My Metro was in a far superior condition and that was an R reg!
Tom Sanderson
Posted 14/3/2012 7:00 PM (#651820 - in reply to #651801)
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Location: a pub in yorkshire		A friend of mine has this exact same model and its gone rusty too, quite badly considering what you would expect for a bmw!
webbj2
Posted 14/3/2012 9:03 PM (#651829 - in reply to #651801)
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Location: North Yorkshire		I know it's shocking. I reckon my R100 is only slightly worse. Add to that the heated rear window that never works because the seals rub on the elements,and wear them away, the arsey job of replacing the final stage unit when it fails, and the way it chews the inside edges from the rear tyres and the phrase 'ultimate driving machine' sounds a little hollow. Good chassis though!

You don't fancy doing another one do you?

Jim.
dann2707
Posted 14/3/2012 9:29 PM (#651832 - in reply to #651829)
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webbj2 - 15/3/2012 5:03 AM

You don't fancy doing another one do you?


Not any time soon! haha to be fair I enjoy it really,
Tom Sanderson
Posted 17/3/2012 6:07 PM (#652202 - in reply to #651829)
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webbj2 - 14/3/2012 9:03 PM

I know it's shocking. I reckon my R100 is only slightly worse. Add to that the heated rear window that never works because the seals rub on the elements,and wear them away, the arsey job of replacing the final stage unit when it fails, and the way it chews the inside edges from the rear tyres and the phrase 'ultimate driving machine' sounds a little hollow. Good chassis though!

You don't fancy doing another one do you?

Jim.


You need an E30, now thats a beast, i wish i had your engine though!
AdrianSi
Posted 18/3/2012 10:22 AM (#652273 - in reply to #651820)
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Tom Sanderson - 14/3/2012 7:00 PM

A friend of mine has this exact same model and its gone rusty too, quite badly considering what you would expect for a bmw!


I looked at a few rusty examples of e46's before buying my e90 330d. Arches seem to rust and on saloons rear panel to quarter panels rust also. Although this the one above looks like its had a replacement wing. That said they're old cars now and do the milage... A metro after say 100k will be shot bodywork wise.
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