2004 nogaro s4 detail 56k upgrade

[imported_Grouse]

Lessons learned Audi rock hard clear is no fun with a PC.



Before wash shots.

Rear Driver quarter pannel

Driverside rear door

Driverside Front door

Driverside front quarter panel

Front end

Passenger front quarter panel

Passenger front door

Passenger rear door

passenger rear quarter panel

Rear bumper

Front end/hood swirling before claying

Driverside door swirling

Driverside rear door swirling

2nd shot of driverside rear door swirling. This swirling is pretty much how the whole car was.

Driverside rear quarterpanel swirling

A few shots after the car has been clayed and taped.

A few shots of the swirling after claying

The next few shots are after Menzerna PG on a edge 2000 yellow cut pad. The hood, roof, and trunk lid recieved PG 2 times. The doors, quarter panels, and rear bumper area recieved PG 3-5 times to remove 70-75% of the swirling. This truely shows the limitations of the Porter cable. Just doing the PG step alone was 7-8 hours of compounding.

 

[imported_Grouse]

This next image shows the rear driverside quarter pannel after 4-5 cuts with PG. There is about a 70% reduction in swirling. The next step IP further reduced this.

These Shots should be after Menzerna IP on a green edge 2000 pad. The hood, roof, trunk recieved one full pass with IP, while the quarters, doors and trunk/bumper areas recieved 1-2 passes.

The following shots should be after Menzerna final polish 2 with a blue edge 2000 pad, and FMJ applied by hand.

I tried to focus on the few remaining scratches. So the lights are a bit out of focus. You can only really see the scratches in the second photo.

Back to infocus photography

The engine bay detail. PS the haze on the paint is the 2nd layer of menzerna fmj.

This is why you should allways clean the trunk. Cleaned trunk on the left uncleaned on the right.

This is after tires, trim and first wipe down. The car has at this point two coats of FMJ, and two coats of chemical guys 50/50 concours wax. My wife is cleaning the interior windows as i was filthy from sitting on the garage floor.

Here is a few shots of the interior detail. I simply was to pressed for time to take before shots. THe break down goes like this.

Vacuum x2 Including headliner.

Foam clean Headliner and Alclantara suede x2 (prochem fine fabric shampoo)

Soft clean the leather x2 (leather masters soft cleaner)

Condition the leather x2 (leather masters conditioner)

protect the leather x1 (leather masters protection cream)

Soft clean dash, trim, doors x1 (leather masters soft cleaner)

condition/protect dash, trim, doors, x1 (Poorboys natural look)

Prespot carpets (bio kleen bac out)

precondition carpets (prochem ultra pac)

Hot water extract carpets. (prochem dry slurry)

 

[imported_Grouse]

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Oh man that thing was brutalized! Many trips thru the scratch n' swirl?

 

[imported_Grouse]

To be fair the owner just became aware of what kind of damage he had done to his car. It was basically let go for two years. He recently joined a few local audi clubs and that is how he found me.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Well, that was a lot of work, but I'm sure he was happy with the results, even if you weren't!

 

[imported_Grouse]

at midinite i ordered a rotary and pads. To be honest i know i could have removed the rest of the marring with a rotary and cut my time down considerably. He is very happy with it. you can actually see the metal flake in the Nogaro paint now.

 

[Nuke33]

I LOVE THAT COLOR, I wish my car was the color and not silver... Looks great amazing work!

 

[^&04types]

8 hours. wow

 

[Scottwax]

Amazing work via PC alone. Even with a Cyclo, I am still looking at 4+ hours of polishing on those Nogaro blue Audis. For some reason, that color is especially brutal to remove swirls from. Every single one I have ever seen looks just like the one you did. :hairpull



Interior looks excellent as well.

 

[sixty7mustang22]

Beautiful car and awesome work.:clap:

 

[Kriminal]

Mennnn-zerrr-naaa......bear with me, while I'm writing this down :grinno:



Amazing work bud :2thumbs:

 

[imported_topnotch]

Great work on that. Was he from Audiworld??

 

[imported_Grouse]

Great work on that. Was he from Audiworld??

Yes and no, I had arranged the detail with him via NWQ forums before he joined Audiworld.

Mennnn-zerrr-naaa......bear with me, while I'm writing this down



Amazing work bud

I like menzerna. It should be used with a rotary though. I can not wait to give it a go. I would also like to try jeff werkstadts products.

 

[imported_themightytimmah]

Damn man, your level of patience is simply amazing. I think you'll like the rotary .

 

[imported_NeilScarrott]

Very impressed, Audi paint with a PC is a nightmare, I love my rotary when it comes to Audi paint!



You'd be suprised just how good Menzerna ceramiclear polishes are by PC.



PO85RD3.01/02 and PO106FF work an absolute treat on these hard paints.

 

[imported_Grouse]

Yep they do work well. I have 3 bottles of original 85rd coming here soon. I have not tried the new 85rd.



I had held off on buying a rotary untill i felt i was at the limits of the PC with what i expected to beable to do. In my s2000 detail it was getting it to finish out as good as i had hoped, in this detail it was cutting. I think the rotary will have it's place depending on what i am doing. I do not think it will be replacing the PC, but simply being one more tool for a specific set of tasks i want to get done.

 

[RUSSH]

Wow man...awesome work. Great results on that sucker.

 

[imported_Devilsown]

first off nice work...

next thing: ALL HAIL MENZURNA

Last what kind of extactor is that?

 

[imported_Grouse]

It is an older mytee hp100 grand prix.

500 psi internals other than the normal 100 psi pump.

1200watt in tank heater

and 1200 watt inline heater.



I use the intank heater to heat the water to boiling, then turn it off to and turn the inline heater on. This seems to draw less power as i am working.