My BMW M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 Journal

[mboon]

Cheers guys.

been on the look for them sachets at work.They are dry now.

Been to see the car tonight. Switch her on and warm her up. Also took the tax out the window ready for being sorned.

[Remagel2507]

Looks brilliant, never knew about this version of the M3 until I came across this thread http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...

[mboon]

Cheers. Yeah that one is lovely. The bench mark setter.

Not seen this car all week. Hopefully cleaning out the arches tomorrow and polishing them

[mboon]

UPDATE:

Today I started on the paintwork. Years of bad weather and poor cleaning had taken its toll so decided to using Megs cutting compound to try take out some of the swirl and grim on the paintwork.

This is a 75/25 shot of the roof during. The right hand side has not been touched.


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

I did noticed halfway through cleaning the car I was putting too much on and found it hard to take off again, this shows in these photos


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

I ended up using a fresh clean cloth to remove the extra, not perfect but should be fine once the polish and wax has been applied

This is a before and after of the rear spoiler. Like I said, nowhere near perfect but certainly an improvement. BMW paint is bloody hard!

Before


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

After


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

So this is what the car looked like after using the compound all over the bodywork


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

I decided to tackle the inside next as my hands were hurting!

This is the seat before


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

After using Glipton leather cleaner and conditioner


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

Drivers seat


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

Back seat


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

I also went over the steering wheel, not happy with this so will look to replace or get the leather renewed at some point


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

Hoovered


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

Cleaned the exhaust using wet and dry and some Autosol metal cleaner


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

A couple things I want to do

Sort this


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

Any ideas?

Radio screen is mixing pixels


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

Anyone know if this is a standard BMW head unit or are they different for the HK setup?

And need to tackle the engine.


M3 Evolution Imola Individual GT2 by mboon, on Flickr

I will hopefully tackle it again tomorrow, might have another go with the cutting compound and look into some polish.

I will upload a little video I made walking around the car, nothing special but good to see in a different light

Thanks for reading

Mark

[mboon]

Video as promised

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBjHNJHE9j0

[2thumbs]

M3s are noisy buggers aren't they

lovely looking car op.

[anomaly]

That interior is lovely

[mboon]

Cheers guys.

she does make a nice noise, even better at 7000rpm :-)

The seats are a bit marmite... if I am honest, I would prefer black leather but theseats are part of what makes this car special. They look much better I person and its nice having fully electric seats :-)

[BullyB]

Fantastic looking car, I love them.
Look forward to the updates

[mboon]

After yesterday my right hand was practically useless!

I had to go back to the car to move it over in the garage and decided to make a small start on the engine bay.

This is what it started off like


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After


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While I was cleaning this part, I noticed the bolts with the washers on was not very tight? I gave them a tweak up


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I am guessing this is just a cover of some sorts?

I also managed to break this


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I am guessing this is the pump for the washer jets? anyone got a working one they do not need? Mine has broken when trying to remove the water pipe


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I took the coil cover off to try clean it up and found 6 BMW coils which was nice


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This one also shows the top of the engine and the mess it is in.

This is the coil cover after a bit of a clean and put back on, also scrubbed the black crackle paint near this cover to see if it would come off, came off the engine part but not the removable coil cover, will need to get this sprayed


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That is all I managed today, need to let my hands recover now. Did not manage to clean the arches out but I can do that in the garage.

Thanks for reading

Mark

[melvster]

Stunning car, a must own for me one day.

[mboon]

Cheers. This is my third E36 M3 :-)

[BlackLabel]

That looks lovely.

[Nikko 40691]

It makes me sad to know I'll never be able to clean a car like this.
She looks lovely by the way Chap!

[piers1]

She has come up a treat, well done.

[mwstewart]

Can you come over and clean mine like that?

[av185]

piers1 said:

My Dad had the 3rd last one made before they moved to the new model, a fantastic car, with the red and black interior, bi plane spoiler etc. Intrigued to know if this is his old one, it was a 2000 car on a T plate, just before the E46 came out.

There was recently another thread on the Imola Edition.

Wasn t aware this was a GT.....thought that was only in green.

In the early 90s I owned an S reg (S145 DFA) Imola Edition then owned what must have been perhaps the last a V reg Imola Edition.

Could see the values of these cars rising for sure....

[essayer]

Lovely car

[RemyMartin]

av185 said:

There was recently another thread on the Imola Edition.

Wasn t aware this was a GT.....thought that was only in green.

In the early 90s I owned an S reg (S145 DFA) Imola Edition then owned what must have been perhaps the last a V reg Imola Edition.

Could see the values of these cars rising for sure....

Correct, the GT was only available in British racing Green, however the GT2 was an Imola red only edition.

Lovely car OP, miss my E36, would love a M3

Edited by RemyMartin on Wednesday 15th January 16:49

[mboon]

Cheers guys.

she has come up well but still needs some work. The little details will need touching up.

this is an imola individual known as the GT2.