fluffnik’s Alpina B10- Part 2!!
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Topic: fluffnik’s Alpina B10- Part 2!!
Posted By: vpricey
Subject: fluffnik’s Alpina B10- Part 2!!
Date Posted: 08-May-2007 at 14:45
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Well guys the weather was definately not on my side today it just kept raining Made a start to alistairs BMW yesterday morning, Foamed with Megs APC Befores:
During foaming:
Wheels before:
Still a long way from finnished a I only managed to clay the car and polish the O/s front wing and the bonnet
Cheers for looking, ------------- Paul - '87 E30 325i Sport - '99 E39 M5 - '05 E53 X5 
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Posted By: 523 iAN
Date Posted: 08-May-2007 at 15:10
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good work mate, no offence Allister but i had a wee feel of your paint work on sunday and say's "Cricky!! Paul lad you've got some work to do there"
------------- 2003-530i SE 
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Posted By: Swanny
Date Posted: 08-May-2007 at 15:21
Looking good !!!!!!!! 
------------- BMW Parts Advisor, Feel Free To Ask Me Anything !!!!!! |
Posted By: Cambell
Date Posted: 08-May-2007 at 15:45
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Well done mate, started doing mine today and got as far as the boot lid when it started tipping down so I can sympathise. Still the B10 is looking loads better already and I'm sure it'll be a credit to you when its done. ------------- |
Posted By: vpricey
Date Posted: 08-May-2007 at 19:10
Cheers guys, stay tuned, should be mostly or totally done on friday!!! ------------- Paul - '87 E30 325i Sport - '99 E39 M5 - '05 E53 X5
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Posted By: Issy
Date Posted: 10-May-2007 at 00:28
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Good job Paul If thats how it looks now look forward to see it when its finished! -------------  |
Posted By: vpricey
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 21:44
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Well guys, Thats it polished!! Got 95% of the deffects out, just got some deeper scratches to look at and finnish off a bit off the roof. still got the wheels to finnish claying/polishing/sealing but Alistairs coming back tomorrow for that. The Pictures don't do it much justice but it looks damn good in the flesh but thats only because my camera isn't that good.lol. So Enjoy!!
Some 50/50 shots(hard to make out in the light, no swirls in one side, swirly in the other)
Arty ones!!
Cheers for looking!! ------------- Paul - '87 E30 325i Sport - '99 E39 M5 - '05 E53 X5
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The rain was on and off all day!!
But I got it done!! 
Posted By: fluffnik
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 22:28
The transformation is amazing.  I was gobsmacked by the amount of dirt the clay lifts and how smoooooth it leaves the paint. ...and then he makes it shinier!  Paul does a great job!  ------------- ALPINA B10 V8 Touring #36 |
523 iAN wrote:
..... Paul just smiled Posted By: spokey
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 23:07
You missed a patch, over there! 
------------- Ciao, Spokey 
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Posted By: 523 iAN
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 09:05
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top job Paul, look's like you even got them exhaust tip's cleaned up well to
------------- 2003-530i SE
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Posted By: Issy
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 09:29
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Well done Paul it looks really good. Well worth the hard work.
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Posted By: Big Stuff
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 13:51
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Looking good Paul. ------------- 2002 330ci SE - Factory Straight - Now gone cause am skint and in a wee diesel - Aw naw - boo hoo |
Posted By: Daz
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 14:08
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I love E39's and that's a cracker. Just get some Meguiars tyre shine gel and yer good to go! Daz ------------- http://smg.photobucket.com/user/silverbeastie/media/Milltek/Sig.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  2009 E92 M3 - Milltek |
Posted By: fluffnik
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 16:41
Sun shiny!   ------------- ALPINA B10 V8 Touring #36 |
Posted By: vpricey
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 17:28
Yeah I done that just before Alistair left!! Nice Pic alistair, eventually got one in the sun then!!? ------------- Paul - '87 E30 325i Sport - '99 E39 M5 - '05 E53 X5
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Posted By: Cambell
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 20:02
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Blooming heck Paul. That is stunning !! I can feel a visit to Tranent for you shortly, and I don't let "just anyone" mess wi mah motor ! I'm sure you'll get a lot of requests after results like that. Great choice Alistair ! ------------- |
Posted By: Coasting
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 20:29
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I enjoy reading these threads.... BUT I wish you'd learn to resize pictures to a reasonable filesize!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: fluffnik
Date Posted: 15-May-2007 at 01:15
My pic was 2.4M before I shrunk it to 130K... Any smaller and you can't see the depth of the shine. ------------- ALPINA B10 V8 Touring #36 |
Posted By: Coasting
Date Posted: 15-May-2007 at 18:39
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Yes, and that's the smallest filesize! The rest are 155k, 166k and 177k. I bet the next one was going to be 188k wasn't it!?
It's a not a big issue, lets face it. However, heres an average 1280 x 1024 image (yours are 800 x 600) and it's not lacking any shine...at less than 64k!
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Posted By: fluffnik
Date Posted: 15-May-2007 at 19:46
All that black jpegs to nothing and the large blocks of red and white should compress well too. ...and it's only 40" high to start with.  My bonnet had noticable artifacts at ~60k... The shine seems to be 130k deep! ------------- ALPINA B10 V8 Touring #36 |
Posted By: Cambell
Date Posted: 15-May-2007 at 21:28
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Well I like the pics anyway !!! ------------- |
Posted By: 523 iAN
Date Posted: 15-May-2007 at 22:38
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can't argue with Cambell's comment ------------- 2003-530i SE
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better picture! Posted By: bluebro
Date Posted: 16-May-2007 at 18:38
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Great work Paul, what did you use to remove the swirls? -------------  F22 Estoril Blue M235i |
Posted By: vpricey
Date Posted: 16-May-2007 at 19:02
Hey Bluebro, Eh just Menzerna IP on a Yellow Sonus pad, then FPII on a Sonus Blue pad to finish using the PC. Was very surprised it only took one or two passes to remove them.  Chuffed tho!!------------- Paul - '87 E30 325i Sport - '99 E39 M5 - '05 E53 X5
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Posted By: fluffnik
Date Posted: 30-May-2007 at 13:21
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Just uploaded some http://www.fluffy.f9.co.uk/Shiny/index.html - pics of Paul's hard work. ------------- ALPINA B10 V8 Touring #36 |
Posted By: stephenperry
Date Posted: 30-May-2007 at 15:54
looks fantastic  ------------- 2007 Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCI Titanium X Auto 1983 Ford Sierra XR4i 2000 Alpina B10 3.3 #118 1999 BMW 323Ci 1995 BMW 318i SE 1994 Vauxhall Omega 2.0 GLS 1995 Ford Mondeo 1.8 LX 1990 Honda Concerto 1.6 EX 1986 Ford Orion 1.6 GL 1989 Ford Fiesta 1.1 Firefly |
Posted By: grahame34m5
Date Posted: 30-May-2007 at 16:38
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Nice one Paul, great work once again. ------------- 
08 e60 Alpina B5 S sold, please forgive me 03 e39 M5 sold 98 e38 728 Sport Individual dead 93 e34 M5 sold |
Posted By: vpricey
Date Posted: 30-May-2007 at 17:37
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Nice load of pics ther Alistair!! ------------- Paul - '87 E30 325i Sport - '99 E39 M5 - '05 E53 X5
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Looking good tho!Posted By: Pete330
Date Posted: 30-May-2007 at 18:06
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Cars looking good Fluffnik ------------- Previous: E36 318is coupe, E36 323i coupe, E30 316 saloon, E30 318 saloon, E46 330ci Sport Conv E92 325d M Sport(3.0),With Loads of gadgets Current: 116i Sport F20 |