i spent 150+ hours ceramic coating my turbo m50 e30
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2023
- my first time ever ceramic coating! i learned so much in this video. this took so long because i constantly kept messing up and it would be so visible in the pure black paint. i wanted the results to come out near perfect and finally i got close enough!
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I hated having a dirty car on camera and this was the only solution! stay tuned. more videos to come!
Some tips for anyone wanted to do a coating themselves.
1. Always do a polish beforehand, even if it’s a brand new vehicle.
2. A 10:1 solution of isopropyl alcohol and water will act as a prep solution to remove any residue from the polish that may be leftover.
3. Put your ceramic microfibers in a bucket filled with water and dish soap immediately after use to prolong the life of them. (Ceramic will crystallize on the towel if you do not do this, causing scratches)
4. Most coatings are ready to wipe off after they flash over, it’ll look almost like an oil slick.
5. For high spots (extra ceramic that hasn’t leveled, will still look flashed) lightly mist a microfiber with distilled water and wipe the panel. It should take the extra ceramic off if done before it has cured. If it has cured you need to rub off with polishing compound and reapply the coating.
6. Look at your work outside when finished to get the best opportunity to catch high spots that are leftover.
7. If you have ceramic left over, put it in the refrigerator. It’ll increase the lifespan of the coating until it’s next use.
Dude your production value has gotten insane over the time I've been watching your channel! I've got a M52 swapped early model getting built now and this vid has inspired me to go crazy and detail the car myself once it's running. Thank you for all the cool videos Joel!
Whenever I have a bad day I watch your videos. The amount of fuck ups is just comical. I respect you so much for willing to put in the work, especially on things you have 0 experience with. 2 steps forward, 1 step back, but you will make it. You inspire me with your channel and I'm starting my own in a few weeks. Right now I have a test video of me painting my replica E30 M3. I am going to build it from scratch, from doing bodywork, to painting the complete car inside and out, building a roll cage and building a 500hp engine. Whenever im a bit further down the road with some more footage shot and edited, I'm launching the channel. Anyway, thanks again for this video. Keep it up!!
For the next correction you do, you can use compressed air to blow the compound/polish out of the pads/rags. It'll save a lot more down time.
With polish typically you can move a little quicker since there aren't as many abrasives so it takes less time to break down.
Also whenever you do wash pads/microfiber just use detergent never add softener (it messes with the absorbency) and when you dry do the lowest temp you. It'll extend the longevity of the pads/microfiber.
Still the car came out looking fresh!
You normally do the touchup before polishing. You dab the spots, wet sand it flat then start your polishing. The cutting removes the scratches. When you go to polish the polish will have fillers that hid the little scratches. So do one spot until you figure out how your going to do the whole car. The iso with a clean towel will not scratch, if it shows scratches you need to polish more. Pad speed is important, 6-8 passes per 2x2 area. If there are still scratch’s you live with it or polish more.
When the csl goes on to heavy and streaks just add some more quickly and wipe it off. Once it drys you have to sand it off and start again.
You should clear coat the polished lenses.
You did great it will be easier next time. You would normally follow crystal serum lite with gtechniq EXO. It’s a super hydrophobic coating that helps prevent water spots. And makes water just bead up and roll off. Use the trim product on the plastic pieces and the G5 for your glass and plastic, like the tail lights. For regular washes use a SIO topper like 3D Bead It Up or the new P&S Defender rather than the spray wax. Spray wax doesn’t stick to the ceramic and will just come off in a couple of days.
Refresh the coating with the gtechniq C2v3 spray. It will keep the ceramic going for 3-4 years. The car is three ft gorgeous now.
If you want 3 inch gorgeous you need to repaint. 😁 Use the extra on your wheels. Throw the towels away. You can’t wash the ceramic out it will scratch everything. I toss them or put them in the tire/wheel well wash bucket. Long video gets a long post.
hey joal, you should put all of this in a M50 playlist? from when you gotten the car years ago till now
also amazing content man
I can't believe how amazing the quality of your videos have gotten, every new upload gets me excited to watch, your experiences, mistakes and successes helps me learn for myself, I am Australian and have a 1994 vr commodore wagon and am planning to build the 3.8 v6 in it, watching your m52 rebuild has been very educational for me and has inspired me.
Joel, after watching, wanted understand the “time” commitment, but it’s in the title of 150+ hours or if done as a “job” from a reference standpoint, would be 4 weeks, or 1 month of an 8 hr a-day job. Insane commitment, My Man. You’re a testament of the adage, “to fry an egg, you’ve got to break a few!”, and then laugh at one’s self. Keep it up!
Bro I cannot believe I watched a 100 minute video with so much interest, lotta mistakes, lotta things learned, great job homie !
bro had me missing him n shit
"on the next episode we will be sanding the whole car down and learning how to paint" lmao all jokes aside bro I envy your dedication, keep it up broski
That transformation was insane definitely came out clean
Another trick if you ever go down this road again. Hahaha. we used to do compounding boats and yachts to clean pads while using them, can spin it and use end of a wooden ruler or paint brush. No harm to the pad and cleaned great..... When detailing a clean pad is less work and much better results. Car looks completely different start to finish. Great job 🤙
Don’t be too hard on yourself fam! You’ve come a very long way! I’m sure ALL the automotive content creators ran into similar issues along their journey. You as a person will always have viewers. Keep it going and don’t hesitate to ask for assistance! Maybe one of us can give a helping hand! That’s what makes this community special. Much love from LA! 🤝
Instead of using griots 3 in 1 ceramic wax in between washes, I would suggest using their ceramic speed shine. It’ll act as a rejuvenating agent without adding a layer of wax over the already existing coating. Also coatings can still get water spots if left for too long so keep microfiber towels on hand.
Your paint is so soft, it's crazy. I've never seen this much scratching from a polisher's cord or from a microfiber, that being said sanding the trim next to the car was comically bad
1 month of no videos and Joel comes out with a 1.5hr vid. Putting in work!!!
When removing or replacing any piece of badge from a car I recommend using fishing line from your local store
As a detailer I found it super satisfying watching you struggle through it all. Cudos por sticking with it man. Car looks 100 times better 👌🏻
Love the longer videos man! Been looking forward to this video for so long : )
I love the content bro keep it up
For the paint repair you should have done it before the compound and polished and wet sanded the excess down to make it even and polished out the fine scratches from wet sanding
The content is so refreshing! I’m always making mistakes and it feels good to watch a content creator not shy away from showing their own mistakes as well and analyzing them to see how to do it better next time. Keep up the awesome content, we love it!
YES NEW VIDEO
LFGGGG!!!!! insane work man
I love these type of videos, just playing them in the background of me doing stuff is dope!
Looks awesome dude!
man I loved this video. You have such a good style with filming and speaking on camera it just ties so well with the detailing and builds with your cars. It's like a comfy feeling, like I just get off work and what better way to unwind kind of comfy.
love your vids so much bro
Great video bro, car looks amazing, you showed it a lot of love
BANGER
Watched this entire video, you seriously are comical. Thanks for the great content, your videos inspire me to want to try doing all this work on my e30 as well🙌
Amazing video, liked every second of it and learned a lot of things. Thanks for the amazing video :)
Awesome video!
Thank you for sharing!!
The car looks great!!!
Long awaited 😭😭🔥🔥❤❤
LETS GOO ANOTHER MOVIE
i am so stoked the boy is back on the Tube :)
very happy
Came out incredible! Good shit!
I have never seen a car get stripped before to get polished and coated. You really should do a decontamination with the iron remover and then the claybar or mitt before polishing.
You can get I dual dei-oniser for your car washes. Many come with cartridge exchange programs. You plumb it in with a bypass setup so you only use the clear water when you want it spot free.
Instead of waiting for things to air dry use a leaf blower. Now that is coated you could wash it with the spotfree system and then dry the car with a leaf blower, the electric EGO’s work great for this,they sell a stubby tube with a rubber band around the nozzle so you don’t scratch anything.
No towels needed.
Try rhino liner in the wheel wells, it blacks them out and it’s really tough and will seal the metal.
Best E30 content without a doubt 🙌
pfft day and night difference, very good job looks amazing!
Dude I’ve found that on my black car that a lot of times I can just polish then wax, instead of starting with compound. If I’m gonna wet sand with the 3000 (my hood gets fcuked every summer with Florida rain and sun) then I compound, polish and wax. Another tip is do the touch up paint before you compound cause you may need a small wet sand first. And you will always see the grainy scratches and minor swirls with older paint, you are only gonna get it so good, the final wax is meant to fill it in, that’s why guys build up wax layers (it looks like the ceramic coat did the same thing). Great job bro. That feeling you get when you see your reflection after all the work! 😎
Hell yea another awesome vid
Someone get this man a euro bumper
Killa work 🤙🏽
Absolutely LOVED the movie, keep it up bro
True dedication
yo so glad you´r back i learn so much from your vids so much so taht a decidet to swap my e36 wimt m50 xd and eventualy turbo it btw love your fueling setup the injectors look so sick
Finally you back again,
I wait it from 30 day ago
Oh bro, I miss seeing you and your BMW! Keep it up with your content!
Did anyone else check in on the channel to see if Joel posted something every other day even tho they got notifications on? Just me? Cool😅😅😅😅😅
As a full time detailer, I had to do whole cars 90-95% scratch removal within 2 days including the ceramic coating, it was insane. Not as detailed as you though, removing trims etc. We usually just taped em. I love seeing you take that extra step
Just finished the video, pretty amazing turnout. One thing I wish you did was one of those water beading off tests that are mad satisfying.
This reminds me of when I paint corrected my lexus ls430. Has the same pure black paint and I totally felt how you kept re installing scratches when you wiped the dust off!! Big learning curve. But overall looks super good!
That was the best part take my sweet ass time hahaha, man I love the way your vids come together my guy!!! As always love to content sick angles too thought I’d toss that out there 😅👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Was finally able to finish the video. That playlist fire send that over
What a transformation, god dayum
was waiting for a banger video..... and i recieved a banger video
Lets gooooooooo 🎉 finally
finally a new vid 😋
Let’s go bro, car looks so good
All the hurdles and trials and errors are some of the same things I went through on my techno violet E36 M3. (Before i hydroplaned it couple months back going 50 trying to be safe in rain on highway but pooled up area on bridge smoked me bad) Ik Ik big sad my baby everything to me 130k techno coupe on bags, mad good paint too, ended up finding it up by you in CT. Still looking for another now or a boston green but getting harder it seems. Awesome results on the black paint. Also finally someone I could relate to with everything I went through in correcting a car for the first time and every step or night I expected to get done ended up doubling with how ode I started to look at all the little scratches in the post polish prep with lights turned off in the shop and spotlight. But awesome to see another BMW enthusiast learning from their own mistakes (it’s the only way I learned) respects to you for that
30 looks nasty and your attention to detail throughout the whole journey just shined through even more when you had to compound and polish all over. Again had exact scenarios with chasing all the dry blown off compound with air compressor and surface prep/ microfibers I was constantly flipping
Comments getting too long at this point but ik that not even close to as long and many nerves went into seeing this project through. Cool to see others getting after it I guess the whole world really doesn’t stop even tho I don’t got a BMW rn
Hope to go out for a rip with you at some point down the road
Again awesome results looks nuts!
Shouts from east end LI
great video! for larger rust spots, do you think using a brush with touch up paint like you did would work?
Hey Joel, I wanted to say thank you for uploading today because today is my birthday and this is one of the greatest gifts. your videos help me a lot through tough times. I appreciate your work ❤
happy birthday ❤️🤝🏽 thank you for watching!
LETS GOOOOOO
love the car!!!!
love these movies bro keep it up
joel, next time you do touch ups you should get those touch up paint brushes that look like q-tips, they have a very small cotton head and make touching up without using excess paint super easy.
new video OHHHHH YESSS
Only me who tough that Joel was just gonna polish it easy and thats it, then deeper in the video he starting to take everything off, im like "damn, let me get some pizza for this video" 😂
Hey Great Video i really enjoyed this Video you and M539 Restoration are the reason on why i got my E46 Love the Vids and that You show your fuck ups
Boom!!! Now bring it out to some car shows! Looks lit!
Bro you have got to get some euro bumpers. It's the first thing I plan to do cosmetically to my e30. Much love keep up the good content
I live in WI and have never seen another e30 besides mine cant wait to be at a point where I can worry about paint.
MANN I GOTTA WHOLE MOVIE. YESIRRR
know ur struggle. Friend called, said he wanted hes car coatet, so i came over, realised he didn´t have a machine, so we had to do it by hand, what i also didn´t know was that, he bought a 5 step coating from maguire´s. Ofc we deep cleaned the car, took about an hour, and then another 8 hours, polishing non stop, by hand, my freaking arms are done. Never doing that without the machine
Bruh that random music clip where you were straight jamming had me hella weak😂😂
letsgoooo finally
looks so good bro. gives me the motivation to do the same when i can
Damn son, that thang greasy now! Looks like a nice big oil slick, great work man!!
Ayeeee let’s goooooo!!!!
yess🙏🏽
I think you should get some new taillights. Kinda refresh the rear end a little bit. Maybe clears or just some aftermarket ones that don’t look so crusty as the ones you have. Much love Joel❤️
Love the content boss. Just saying you got BIG power.... so when ya gonna do BIG breaks n a 5 lug?
love u joel
Aidan most likely screamed at you for not deep cleaning it and ceramic coating it earlier 🤣
Doin gods work my guy
MOVIE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Gives me so much motivation to do anything with my car! Good shtuff dude!
FINALLY
Super clean ❤️
What kind of oil u running on it ?
Did you repaint the car yourself or is that the original black paint? Looks great bro👌
damn this is the most hilarious detailer. love it
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After ceramic coating all the towels are done. You can only try and wash them but you can only use them on interior and dirty jobs.
hell fucking yeah bro let's gooo
"my 6 inch was way too big" that's what I'm sayin bro, 2 inch is good enough
1:18:56 got me so off guard🤣
love your work my surgeon bro
Hey what wheels are these I have an 85 sedan and I'm really wanting to copy you and get a set they are beautiful
i wonder if you could build up that touch up paint and knock it down wet sanding with like 1000 grit
LETS GOOO
Hi Joel why don't you put euro spec bumpers front and back