Detailing

[Pinewood]

The X3 is in pretty good condition, but has a few marks here and there. I'm seriously considering a paint correction and detail.
Has anyone had it done?  Recommendations for the London area?
Cost? 

[dark_stranger]

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[PhilT]

I had a full paint correction job done on my Sapphire Black X6 last summer (if you do a search I think there's an early topic about it).

Cot me £500 and the guy did a great job - results were excellent.

I'm in Leeds so can't recommend anyone in London.

[Pinewood]

Got talking to the neighbour about his E91 330d convertible and what hair dryers are the best )
And he is into detailing. Reckons using a clay bar, then polish, followed by a seal such as canauba wax is better than spending £5-600 with a detailer.
I like these sort of economics, and he reckons i should factor out a day of auto molly cuddling

[PhilT]

I guess a lot depends on the car colour - black suffers from swirls/holograms worse than say silver or grey.

If you can save cash getting it looking good with just claying, polishing and sealing then that's a great result but I couldn't get mine to the standard the detailer did using that method (I'd have loved to have saved the £500). He estimated 3 days (he actually had it for 10 while I was on holiday) and that was using a machine polisher etc. so doing it by hand would take longer (if indeed you could get same results).

Each to their own but IMHO a days auto Molly coddling will certainly give you a good level of clean/detail - wouldn't think that'd be enough to time to properly address any paint correction (not something I've tried myself but isn't something I'd want to be rushing - easy to make things worse I would think). Obviously this all depends on what needs correcting, what you're actually wanting to achieve etc.

Best of luck whichever way you decide to go 

This is the guy I used http://www.autoshinespecialistvaleting.co.uk/

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