e36 320i clean up..

Picked this up last week from someone who needed it moved asap. Bought without seen it and took a gamble, turned out to be a good move, started on the button with a new battery and beneath all the dirt its a good straight car.

Going to clean it up and maybe sell it on or drop it down on some style 5's and sell it that way with some NCT :)

Anyway onto the car in question, was sitting up for about 4-5 years...

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Gave it a good snow foam and rinsed down a few times down all the shut lines and gaps running all the hidden dirt out, gave the arches a good rinsing too.

Car was then washed and engine bay got a tidy up. Was nearly time to clay, so to save some time/hassle I used a good bit of Iron Cleanse to break down any embedded iron particles etc

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Onto the claying, look at the dirt of the water after a few passes of a medium clay...

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So took it inside and was itching to get at the paint with the Rotary, nice to have it back in the hands again and get some gloss back into this tired old paint. Love white cars...

Left side of bonnet done with 2 stages, not perfect but back to being glossy would take another 3-4 passes to get it about 95% corrected few heavy arks here and there so might try get it better when I get more time.

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Put a 2" strip of tape down to show some changes that can be made in one good pass.

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More of a natural 50/50

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Engine bay done, much better..


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And how it looks now. Only polished 2 panels on the other side of the car so this side not done but after a good clean, clay its already looking better, no more green left :)

Will update the thread as time goes on, hoping to have it done soon enough ;)


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Thats some improvement Chris, fair play, cant wait to see what this will be like when you're finished on her :)

Best of luck with it, for 4/5 year stood up it doesn't look too bad, best of look with it

Was really hoping it would be a saloon for some reason, looks great though, big improvement already :)

Great looking example, lovely work getting her clean too. Would love to have a go at cleaning up something that's been sitting that long. Best of luck with it Chris :happy:

Engine bay looks like new [emoji41] best of luck with her chris good base there

Cheer lads, was going to be scrapped if it didn't sell. Car is an original Irish car and only has 83k on the clock.

Have spent about 3-4 hours so far getting it cleaned down and ready to polish about another 25 to go and it shall be done. Love putting stuff like this back into a position it can be enjoyed for years to come :cool:

Fantastic Chris, I'm very pleased it found its way to you, and as you say it was going to scrap before I suggested
it be moved on to someone who'd be able to bring it (some way) back to its former glory.

Going to watch this thread with great interest ;)

Looks like nice clean car, :) tell me if you want to sell it :)

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Originally Posted by Ghostek

Looks like nice clean car, :) tell me if you want to sell it :)

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It will be for sale soon Kris but will hopefully be with NCT ;)