Deep Cleaning a Dirty BMW M3! | Full Vinyl Wrapped Car Detail and Engine Bay Cleaning!

hey what's going on guys and welcome to the video now the vehicle sitting behind me today is a beautiful 2010 bmw m3 and this is definitely a very unique vehicle as the entire car is wrapped in vinyl so let's take a look around okay so with the paint all covered up on this car i'll have to change my approach a little bit to safely work with this vinyl but overall the outside isn't all that bad and just has a thin layer of dust all over although the tires are pretty dirty and haven't been cleaned for a while and moving to the interior now and it's quite a bit worse as there was apparently some ice cream spilled in here along with what i'm guessing is melted chocolate in the back storage compartment but aside from that the driver's footwell is also pretty dirty and there's really just either dirt or debris covering every surface in here and then as the owner is going to be storing this car over winter i'll also be getting this dirty engine bay fully detailed but just before we jump into things take a second and make sure you're subscribed to the channel and that you've got the bell on so you never miss out on a future video alright guys well i'm super excited to get started on this bmw today and i'm going to thoroughly enjoy every minute of this detail so let's get started [Music] all right so as i start on the pre-wash rinse here you'll notice that i'm not getting quite as close as i usually do with the pressure washer and that's because like i mentioned in the opening this car is wrapped in vinyl which requires a slightly different approach than regular paint as it's more delicate and softer than paint is so besides this tip i'll cover a few other important things in this video that you should know if you're going to detail a wrapped vehicle and make sure you stick around until the end of this video so you can see how incredibly good this car looks when i'm done [Music] now despite this bmw having really tight clearance in the wheel wells that certainly doesn't mean that i'll be any less thorough though i will make sure to be as careful as possible as it would be incredibly easy to get a little too close to the vinyl with the pressure washer [Music] moving up to the front wheels and with this m3 having some big beefy brakes on it they have the unfortunate ability to generate quite a bit of brake dust so as i start to spray off inside the wheel i definitely got a bit of a surprise as a massive amount of brake dust was hiding in there so i'm making sure to get in nice and close and spray from different angles so i can make sure that i get it all out [Music] [Music] two [Music] all right moving to the underside now and this was a first for me as the entire underside of this car is covered in the same material they use for carpeted wheel well liners so the moment i started spraying there was piles of dirt hitting the floor this was by far the dirtiest area of the whole exterior and if you're wondering why bmw would do this it's to reduce road noise inside the car and is exactly why other manufacturers use the material in wheel wells but it definitely has its drawbacks [Music] so [Music] all right so getting the m3 covered in thick foam and if you've ever thought about picking up a foam cannon i definitely recommend the one that i use as it's very inexpensive and has been working well for a few years already so if you're interested the link is down in the description for you [Music] [Music] uh [Music] okay so moving to the wash stage now and as usual i'm using the two bucket method with grit guards in my buckets and with this car being wrapped i'm going to use my car pro reset soap here as it's just a bit more of a premium soap and is something i would typically use on a ceramic coated vehicle and with the vinyl being softer than regular paint that means it can scratch or swirl easier so taking as gentle and approach as i can with the two bucket method a good ph neutral soap and not using too much pressure on my wash mitt will ensure that the wrap stays looking [Applause] perfect [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] hmm [Music] nice sign it's crooked though whatever just don't break anything okay [Music] hmm [Music] all right it's time now to tackle this dirty engine bay and the first step here after disconnecting the battery which happens to be in the trunk in this car is to get the entire engine bay covered in some degreaser and if you're wondering what i'm using here it's just super clean degreaser in a spray foamer and then after i've let that sit for a minute to help break down the dirt and gunk i'll go over all the flat surfaces with my wheel brush and basically use this anywhere it will fit then i'll use my smaller speed master brush to get down into all the tighter areas and i'll also use a detail brush to get anywhere that i haven't gotten with the other two brushes [Music] uh [Music] now with everything clean i'll go ahead and simply rinse down the entire engine bay and it's important to note that you don't want to let your degreaser dry so you definitely have to work quick and if anyone is wondering why i do this after i've washed the vehicle it's because if i did it first a little bit of water would end up making its way underneath the hood when i pressure wash so this way the engine bay stays perfect when i'm done and it just takes a couple seconds to dry any water drips off the paint afterwards then with everything rinsed i'll just quickly use my leaf blower to get rid of the majority of the water and then simply finish drying things with a microfiber towel [Music] okay with everything dry now i'm using some car pro pearl this time for all the black plastics and hoses to dress them and really make this engine bait pop and if you were wondering this whole process usually takes anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes as the degreaser really does most of the work for me [Music] um [Music] moving to the rubber mats now and after quickly spraying them off i'll use some apc and my medium green drill brush to agitate and then just blast them clean [Music] [Applause] [Music] now as i finished removing all the personal items from the vehicle i figured i'd point this out but this piece of red vinyl here is obviously some leftover from when the car was wrapped and basically it just comes in big sheets like this and in terms of cost at least around here it'll set you back about three to four thousand dollars to wrap a car so it's definitely not cheap [Music] [Music] now as i work my way around the vehicle with the vacuum i've always got my detail brushes with me and in the back storage compartment here it looks like there was some sort of incident with melted chocolate so thankfully the detail brush was able to loosen up nearly all of it which means that when i hit it with the steamer later on there's going to be a lot smaller mess to clean up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] moving to the door now and if any of you are curious as to what color this m3 is underneath the wrap well you can see on the inside of the door here that the car is black with a little bit of blue undertone but i personally think the red suits the car better [Music] [Music] all right so since these carpets aren't super dirty i figured i'd just focus on the couple dirtier areas and if you've ever wondered why i start with carpets well this is why if the trim was already clean here i would just have to repeat work so being a work smart not hard kind of guy i've thought through all my processes to make sure i'm doing things in the most efficient way possible [Music] now as i make the first couple passes here you'll see that that red stuff didn't budge with the drill brush but the steamer is going to make real quick work of it in a little bit [Music] all right so since i know there's lots of you out there that enjoy the extracting and having found all the carpet floor mats in the trunk i certainly wasn't going to leave those untouched so while i extract them i thought i'd give you a bit of background on the vehicle and like i mentioned in the opening it's a 2010 and has just a shade under 150 000 kilometers on it or about 93 000 miles and the owner actually just uses this as his summer car and is going to be storing it for the winter very soon which was obviously the reason for the detail but something else you might find interesting is that this isn't a very common vehicle around here he actually had to buy it from a neighboring province so it's pretty unlikely that i'll see another one anytime soon [Music] so now one thing i didn't mention earlier is that the carpet in this bmw was pretty good quality not the best i've ever seen but still pretty good and usually with floor mats the carpet is actually super plush even if the carpet inside the vehicle is terrible so i found it pretty funny that this bmw had pretty good carpet inside and absolutely terrible carpet floor mats [Music] so [Music] here's all the dirty water pulled out of the m3 gross [Music] [Music] all right so as i work my way around the car with the steamer i wanted to give you a quick update on the detail geek auto care launch and despite my best guesses for when my products would arrive at my warehouse and everything would be ready to go the current environment in the us has caused a few delays though the site should be going live very soon and if you want to stay up to date on exactly when that happens make sure you follow detail geek auto care on instagram or sign up for the newsletter as that's where i'll be telling people first [Applause] oh [Music] okay moving to the leather now and after spraying on some mcguire's d181 leather cleaner making sure to pop open the thigh extension here i'll use my horse hair brush to gently agitate and the nice thing about this cleaner is that it foams up to let you know it's actually doing something and then i'll simply wipe it off with a microfiber towel [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] okay last step here is to get some car pro pearl on the tires and with it diluted about two to one it's going to leave a nice matte black look when it dries so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] all right guys and nine hours later and the m3 is looking super sexy again now i thoroughly enjoyed working on this car today and i have to say i am i'm loving the wrap on this car it looks really good now if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you smash the thumbs up button subscribe to the channel if you haven't yet enjoy the guitar outro and i will see you guys in the next one [Music] [Applause] you [Music]

Channel: The Detail Geek

Views: 1,361,168

Rating: 4.941442 out of 5

Keywords: dirty car detailing, filthy car detailing, car cleaning, car detailing, interior car cleaning, interior car detailing, car interior cleaning, auto detailing, the detail geek, detail geek, interior cleaning, asmr, carpet cleaning, deep cleaning, dirtiest car ever, detailing transformation, first wash in years, dirty bmw cleaning, dirty bmw detail, m3 detail, detail geek bmw, bmw m3, bmw detailing, vinyl wrap car, engine bay cleaning, engine bay detailing

Id: H_KvI4PYjgg

Length: 29min 36sec (1776 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2020