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BMW Project Car
Is this car worth the effort?

Before and After video

The following is a list of the products that I currently use, along with a link to Amazon, if you want to review/buy them yourself:

  1.   Adam's Pressure Washer

  2.   Rupes LHR 15 Mark III, Big Foot

  3.   Rupes LHR 75E

  4.   Adam's Micro Polisher

  5.   Sonax Cutmax, Perfect Finish, Ex04-06 Kit 250ml - I used all three 

  6.   Adam's Multi Use Foaming Cleaner (2 cans used)

  7.   Invisible Glass Cleaner

  8.   MTM Foam Canon 

  9.   Adam's Ultra Foam Shampoo

  10.   Griot's Micro Fiber wash Mit

  11.   Rupes' Cutting pad, medium pad and fine pad

  12.   Chemical Guys Microfiber towels

  13.   Adam's Graphene Tire Dressing

  14.   Adam's Graphene Ceramic Coating

  15.   Chemical Guys Nonsense Invisible Cleaner

  16.   GTechniq C4 - Trim Restorer

  17.   GTechniq Ultimate Glass care

  18.   Adam's Wheel Cleaner

  19.   Lexol Leather conditioner (Step 1 & 2)

  20.   Adam's Wheel Brush Kit

  21.   Adam's Interior Brushes (large and small)

  22.  Turtle Wax Headlight restoration kit

  23.   BMW Replacement Door handles

  24.   BMW Glossy Black front Grill

  25.   BMW Front Bumper

  26.   Automotive Touchup Paint - for the scratch 

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Let's compare the price of total amount invested, to what I sold it for:

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I bought this for $500.00 (it was in terrible shape, if you watched the 1st video you know)

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How much did I invest in it (approximate costs)?

  1. New Front Bumper $500.00

  2. Blacked out front bumper grills $50.00

  3. New Door handles (times 3) $100.00 (it was less than that but I am estimating)

  4. Rear air vents $50.00

  5. New rear tail light - $150.00

  6. Cleaning products and polishing pads

    1. ​I am going to guestimate here.  I operate a detailing businesss on the side so most of these products I already own; however, there are things that I purchased specifically for this car (i.e. headlight restorer, polishing pads that I will not be able to use again, matching paint from Autotouchup Paint, etc.).  $250.00​​

  7.  Compete inspection and repair by Autometrics Motorsports to make sure there were no mechanical issues with the car.  Unfortunately, there were a few, which cost me $900.00 to fix.  However, I sold the car in good conscious that it was a reliable car.

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TOTAL PRICE (invested):  $2,500.00 (plus the countless hours that I spent working on the car ) - how much is your time and effort worth?

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I sold the Car for $5,500.00, which means I made $3,000.00 in profit.

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Yes, I think I could sold it for more (especially in today's car market), but this gentleman was buying it for his daughter, and being a father myself, I wanted to help him out.  Sometimes, it's not all about the money, at least for me.  I like to help people out as much as possible - when I can.  

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At the end of the day, I invested approximately $2,500.o0 in this car; I sold this car for $5,500.00 so was the time and energy I spent worth the $3,000.00 that I made?  I didn't log the total amount of hours spent on this car.  I will tell you it was dozens of hours (changing the bumper, removing the seats, polishing the car (3 times), restoring the headlights, polishing the windows, ceramic coating it, etc.).  My question for you, is that worth it to you?

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