Detailer's Domain: 12 Audi S4 New Car Prep - Clear Film Install
 

Subject: 12 Audi S4 Monsoon Gray



Requirements - New Car Prep - Clear Film Installation - Full Hood, Full Fenders, Full Bumper



What was done -

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

- Pre Washed with W99

- Iron Cut

- Wash down and rinsed

- Door jambs were cleaned up

- Clayed

- Dried

- Tires dressed

- Masking

- Paint Measurement

- Wolf's Shine and Seal

- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight

- Wheel wells were cleaned

- Rubber and Plastics Treated

- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed

- Exhaust tips cleaned

- Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed



Links to products used -



1Z einszett W99

Adam's All Purpose Cleaner

Aquartz Iron Cut

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

Uber Clay Bar Kit

Meguiar's Microfiber DA Compound D300

Wolf's Shine and Seal

Sonax Tire Gel

Optimum Metal Polish

Sonax Glass Cleaner

Wolf's Chemicals Glass Guard

Wolf's Chemicals Rim Shield



Tools used

Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Uber No Name MF Towels

Porter Cable 7424XP

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



Before

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Prep

Sonax Full Effect

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Wash

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Rinse

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Debadge and Install Supercharged Badges (dental floss followed by 3m adhesive remover)

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Wolf's Rim Shield applied - Sonax Tire Gel on the tires

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Wolf's Glass Guard

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Wolf's Shine and Seal applied

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Clear Film install

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After shots

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Absolutely beautiful! Nice debadge, and nice clear film install! How long does the film generally last and what's the evidence that it needs to be removed/replaced?

thanks! depending on how you take care of it I would have seen 2 years and I have seen 5 years.



it will dull out and some older films will get yellow.

Wow, that long?? Incredible. Do rocks cause holes in it in the unfortunate even that you get hit by one?

anything is possible but I haven't seen rocks cut thru clear film.



a sharp object or a bump from another car can tear it