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Subject: Audi Q5
Requirements – customer picked up this pre owned car after losing their car during Hurricane Sandy. Needed to be rehab and refreshed to like new conditions for the new owner.
Exterior
– Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
– Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
– Wheel wells were cleaned up
– Washed with 1Z einszett W99
– Auto Finesse Iron Out
– Wash down and rinsed
– Door jambs were cleaned up
– Nano Scrub AutoScrub
– Dried
– Tires dressed
– Masking
– Paint Measurement
– Compound – Menzerna FG400
– Final Polish – Sonax 3/6 Nano Polish
– Last step – Lusso Oro
– Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
– Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
– Rubber and Plastics Treated
– Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
– Exhaust tips cleaned
– Windows were auto scrubed, cleaned, and sealed
Engine Detail
– Cleaned
– Dressed
Interior
– Vac
– Clean and protect dash
– Clean and protect leather
– Clean glass
Products used
Links to products used –
1Z einszett W99
Auto Finesse Iron Out
Auto Finesse Oblitarate
Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Menzerna FG400
Sonax Nano Polish 3/6
Collinite 845 Insulator Wax
Adam’s Super VRT
Optimum Metal Polish
Engine
Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner
Adam’s Trim and Lug Brush
Adam’s In and Out Spray
Interior
1z einszett Plastic Deep Cleaner
1z einszett Cockpit
Leather Master Strong Cleaner
Leather Master Vital Conditioner
Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Griot’s 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Griot’s 3 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes BigFoot LHR 21ES Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Adam’s Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster
Interior before
Cleaning up the interior
Vac
Leather Cleaned
Leather Conditioned
Vents were dusted
1Z einszett plastic deep cleaner used on the plastics and vinyl as well as Cockpit
Headliner was cleaned up with 1Z einszett Plastic Deep Cleaner
After
After shots
Exterior
Before
Exhaust tip before
Exhaust tip after
Tires before
Wheels before
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner was used on the wheels.
While the Sonax was setting up we hit the tires and wheel wells with APC
APC pulling off all the dirt and grime off the tires
All that dirt, grime, brake dust being getting pulled off the wheels, tires, wheel wells
Wheel woolies and ez detail brush were used on the wheels
Rinse
We had to go back at the wheels to try to get more out of them, there was a lot of baked on brake dust, we actually tried Sonax FE and a clay bar did a decent job.
Then rinsed and hit them again.
Engine before – it’s probably safe to say it has never been cleaned.
Used the Metro Air Force Blaster to blow out the leaves and debris from the engine bay
APC on the engine by was used to cut out the years of dirt and grime
After we let the APC do most of the work we agitated the dirt and grime with a boar’s hair detailing brush
The Kranzle Pressure Washer was used to rinse down the engine bay
After shot of the engine bay
Auto Finesse Iron Out was used in the first part of the paint prep
Rinsed the Iron Out off the Q
After the Iron Out we foamed the car
Wash with a mitt
Final Rinse
Nano Skin Auto Scrub going to work
Here are shots of the defects and imperfections after the prep.
50/50 photos during the paint correction process
B pillars before
B pillars after
After shots (sorry was not able to get any outside after shots due to the weather)
Amazing work. Audi paint is notoriously hard to work on and that is an amazing result.