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Detailer's Domain: 11 Audi S4 - 40k of neglect

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Default Detailer's Domain: 11 Audi S4 - 40k of neglect

Subject: 2011 Audi S4 Phantom Black

Requirements: Clean up the mess in the interior, Paint correction a must, engine, and make sure wheels are cleaned up.



Customer is a long time customer and friend, who like most have other things going on in their lives to get their cars to me ; )



So long story short we had to grab the car shuttle the car back and forth from his house and the shop. Car has never been worked on except for your local car wash.



Lots to do.



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

- Wolf's Decon Gel

- Wash down and rinsed

- Door jambs were cleaned up

- Nano Scrub AutoScrub

- Dried

- Tires dressed

- Masking

- Paint Measurement

- Sonax 5/5 Fine Abrasive Paste - Microfiber DA Cut Pad - Griots Orbital

- Sonax 3/6 Nano Polish - Uber Green Pad - Griots Orbital

- 1Z einszett Glanz Wax - Uber Black Pad

- 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 autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed



Interior

- Interior Vac

- Leather Cleaned/Conditioned (remove a denim stains and much more)

- Plastic - wiped down and protected



Engine

- Cleaned

- Dressed



Products used



Links to products used -



1Z einszett W99

Wolf's Decon Gel

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

NanoSkin AutoScrub System

Meg's M105

Sonax Compound 5/5 - Coming Soon

Sonax Nano Polish 3/6 - Coming Soon

1Z einszett Glanz

Adam's Super VRT

Optimum Metal Polish

1Z einszett Cockpit

Leather Master Strong Cleaner

Leather Master Vital Conditioner

Leather Master Super Remover

Uber Engine Detailing Kit



Tools used

Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Uber No Name MF Towels

Griot's 6 inch 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

Uber Firehose Nozzle

Metro Air Force Blaster



Interior:

Dusty interior

























Blowing out the interior prior to vac





Carpets getting vacuumed





50/50 shot of the interior clean up









After





Engine Before

















Engine After









Before shots



































Prep - Wash, Decon, Autoscrub, wheels, tires

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner in action









Bug and Tar Remover applied

























Nanoskin Autoscrub in action





Before shots of the paint (you got it all here, dull paint, scratches, wash marks, swirls, waterspots, etching)













Compound/Polishing





using the Festool to get some of the nasty stuff out.





50/50 shots on various panels of the car











Finishing touches

working to get it done





1z einszett Glanz Wax being applied





Afters

























































































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