This thread is going to be a place for a bit of craic and a chronicle of the various jobs on my newly acquired daily beater.
Everyone say hello to Betty......
My 12 year old, 190,000 mile BMW 320d M Sport Touring. This faithful old girl has served well in my other half's family for 6 years, with piles of paperwork and history it was a bit of a no brainer for me to buy it for the princely sum of £1700!
It wears a few battle scars, road rash all over the front end and the odd small dent but I can deal with that. The aim of this project is to get it turned around in the next 6 weeks or so ready for when my current car goes back to the lease company. There is mechanical work to be done, so I'll be covering that too.
I've got a spreadsheet running to keep track of spends, it's going to be a bit of a bangernomics project this one. It's cheap so I may as well document a total of running costs to see how much value I can get out of it!
I washed it at the beginning of the week, as seen in the above picture. It looks well from 10 feet [emoji23] here's some other pictures I took.
Today with the weather getting out I took the opportunity to let battle commence.
Round 1 - Engine Bay
The task for today was to get it looking way more presentable under here, 12 years and 190k is never kind to the business end of a motor!
This is what I was greeted with 🤦🏼*♂
Basically covered in s**t [emoji23] spent 15 minutes getting rid of the leaves and twigs, then lifted the grates out of the drain channels to clear those.
For products, all Autoglanz. Pre soak was taken care of with Piste Snowfoam and left to dwell for 10 minutes.
This was rinsed, then Autoglanz Infinite APC at 5:1 was sprayed liberally throughout the under bonnet, inner wings and bay and left to dwell to get to work. Agitated with worked with Vikan long reach brush, Meguiars flexible wheel brush and various detailing brushes.
The bay was then dried with a couple of old microfibres and sprayed with Autoglanz Trim Reaper 4:1. This was wiped and buffed to leave me with this
Wasn't expecting this turnaround! Looks a million dollars to me, really happy with it for a couple of hours graft [emoji1303]
Thanks if you've made it through round 1, comments welcome.
Next update will be round 2 - interior including wet work and deep clean of the leather.
Cheers
Matt
Everyone say hello to Betty......
My 12 year old, 190,000 mile BMW 320d M Sport Touring. This faithful old girl has served well in my other half's family for 6 years, with piles of paperwork and history it was a bit of a no brainer for me to buy it for the princely sum of £1700!
It wears a few battle scars, road rash all over the front end and the odd small dent but I can deal with that. The aim of this project is to get it turned around in the next 6 weeks or so ready for when my current car goes back to the lease company. There is mechanical work to be done, so I'll be covering that too.
I've got a spreadsheet running to keep track of spends, it's going to be a bit of a bangernomics project this one. It's cheap so I may as well document a total of running costs to see how much value I can get out of it!
I washed it at the beginning of the week, as seen in the above picture. It looks well from 10 feet [emoji23] here's some other pictures I took.
Today with the weather getting out I took the opportunity to let battle commence.
Round 1 - Engine Bay
The task for today was to get it looking way more presentable under here, 12 years and 190k is never kind to the business end of a motor!
This is what I was greeted with 🤦🏼*♂
Basically covered in s**t [emoji23] spent 15 minutes getting rid of the leaves and twigs, then lifted the grates out of the drain channels to clear those.
For products, all Autoglanz. Pre soak was taken care of with Piste Snowfoam and left to dwell for 10 minutes.
This was rinsed, then Autoglanz Infinite APC at 5:1 was sprayed liberally throughout the under bonnet, inner wings and bay and left to dwell to get to work. Agitated with worked with Vikan long reach brush, Meguiars flexible wheel brush and various detailing brushes.
The bay was then dried with a couple of old microfibres and sprayed with Autoglanz Trim Reaper 4:1. This was wiped and buffed to leave me with this
Wasn't expecting this turnaround! Looks a million dollars to me, really happy with it for a couple of hours graft [emoji1303]
Thanks if you've made it through round 1, comments welcome.
Next update will be round 2 - interior including wet work and deep clean of the leather.
Cheers
Matt