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2011 BMW 328i XDrive
with calcium deposit stains from underground parking garage pipes.
ignore the swirls as the customer was only concerned about
removing the stains on her couple of month old Bimmer.
i know, i know i wanted to go more aggressive & do some compounding & polishing steps
with my Dewalt DW849 rotary but the woman wasnt interested.
she wanted to pick up the car the next day. when a womans mind is made up, its made up! ppft!
i promised to remove all of the calcium deposit stains on the first night
& deliver her car all finished the following afternoon.
i had to come up with a quicker way to attack this car as rotary compounding & polishing
wouldve taken more time but wouldve produced better final results.
so i went on google & started to search ways to clean calcium deposit/limescale stains.
i found this article & to my surprise i had a bottle of vinegar just laying around the shop.
oh lucky me, lets see if this actually works!
i got the vinegar several months ago to remove water stains off glass for another customers car.
now i know why that didnt work out to well.
the secret is leaving the straight vinegar soaked paper towels on the surface for at least one hour!
http://www.ehow.com/way_5686328_home-removing-calcium-deposits-paint.html
what was used.
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the car is clay barred & taped. all of the prep work is now finished.
its time to attack the calcium deposit stains with distilled white vinegar!
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i went around the car a few times taking pics of the damaged parts of the car.
only the front drivers side wheel had calcium deposit stains.
all of the glass was clean except for a spot on the sunroof & the rear glass.
i hand polished all of the glass with #000 steel wool
& double edge razor blades just to make sure i didnt miss anything.
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2011 BMW 328i XDrive
with calcium deposit stains from underground parking garage pipes.
ignore the swirls as the customer was only concerned about
removing the stains on her couple of month old Bimmer.
i know, i know i wanted to go more aggressive & do some compounding & polishing steps
with my Dewalt DW849 rotary but the woman wasnt interested.
she wanted to pick up the car the next day. when a womans mind is made up, its made up! ppft!
i promised to remove all of the calcium deposit stains on the first night
& deliver her car all finished the following afternoon.
i had to come up with a quicker way to attack this car as rotary compounding & polishing
wouldve taken more time but wouldve produced better final results.
so i went on google & started to search ways to clean calcium deposit/limescale stains.
i found this article & to my surprise i had a bottle of vinegar just laying around the shop.
oh lucky me, lets see if this actually works!
i got the vinegar several months ago to remove water stains off glass for another customers car.
now i know why that didnt work out to well.
the secret is leaving the straight vinegar soaked paper towels on the surface for at least one hour!
http://www.ehow.com/way_5686328_home-removing-calcium-deposits-paint.html
what was used.
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the car is clay barred & taped. all of the prep work is now finished.
its time to attack the calcium deposit stains with distilled white vinegar!
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4
i went around the car a few times taking pics of the damaged parts of the car.
only the front drivers side wheel had calcium deposit stains.
all of the glass was clean except for a spot on the sunroof & the rear glass.
i hand polished all of the glass with #000 steel wool
& double edge razor blades just to make sure i didnt miss anything.
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