OCDetail - 80k Miles Jet Black Audi S5 Major Restoration

Jsmooth

OCDetailing
Wow I'm spoiled! I've clawed my way through the trenches of dirty cupholders and I've went round for round with some destroyed paint. I've lost a many night sleeps and probably the reason I sprouted some grey hair. But as of lately I've been kinda spoiled to almost nothing but brand new cars. And brand new cars do present a challenge because to get a dramatic difference where you blow the customer away you seriously got bring your "A" game. While this can take some time and effort, its nothing compared to cleaning 80k miles of gunk out of a never cleaned wheel or wheel well. I was very much reminded of what "hammered" paint is. So when looking this car over wondering why did I take this job... Well I'm a little embarrassed to admit I had that thought and remembered back to the day when I lived for jobs like this. A chance to really show what I'm made of. So lets get on with it!

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Hello Audi! Brilliant black my old friend....
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I see some compounding dust in my near future!
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A closer looks shows where what I'm sure had to be tree debris that fell on the car then got wet and decomposed on the paint leaving crazy etchings everywhere
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Should be a cake walk right?
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Not bad at all ;)
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Whole car looked like this.
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Wheels had to come off! You know they are bad when the Iron x goes from purple to bronze....
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David Purser Unique Kar Kare stopped by and ended a hand in the final stretch. While he was prepping the wheels for coatings I was removing the Audi, and S5 badge to be polished around because it would looked horrible if I didn't
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A full strength wipe down with megs wheel bright didn't do much to these exhaust tips....
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Little scrub a dub with 0000 steel wool did though! Thanks for the tip David! In all seriousness he looked at me like a I was crazy I'm sitting there scrubbing this grime off by hand with metal polish... "Do you even steel wool brahh!!" And A light bulb of the simplest thing went off in my head and I realized why I had 0000 steel wool in my detailing cart. It wasn't just there to give me crazy anxiety everytime I washed towels with thoughts of it getting mixed in. It had a purpose!
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Cant forget the 50/50 shot of correction going down!
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Some point after this the windshield cowl was revived from gray to nice and black with Cquartz Dlux. The wheels were coated with Dlux. And the paint with Opti Coat Pro.
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Ta Da!
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Bad pic but its ok! Ill get more when It comes back next week. To top everything else off. Customer was blown away and super happy with the results of Cquartz Finest...
Refer to pic where I stated I coated the car with Opti Coat Pro.... DOH!!!!!:o:o So its coming back next week for removal and re install lol
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Either way Killed IT!!!! B)


Thanks for looking
Joseph Torbati
Bay Area OCDetail
 
WOW, just WOW !!!!!!!

You earned that one...............

Why delux on wheels, instead of CQF ?
 
I also have another question...............

Were they blown away by the cqf, or the polish/transformation ????

Is it the prep or the product?
 
Ron I accidentally put Opti Coat Pro on the car... He wanted Finest lol. And he was blown away with the transformation over all. Just I messed up and finished with wrong coating. So thats why he's coming back for me to polish the opti coat off and apply finest. And Dlux is awesome on wheels. I've been using it almost exclusively for over a year now with great results. And Chad for something this hammered the truth teller needed to come out ;) Thanks guys
 
Ron I accidentally put Opti Coat Pro on the car... He wanted Finest lol. And he was blown away with the transformation over all. Just I messed up and finished with wrong coating. So thats why he's coming back for me to polish the opti coat off and apply finest. And Dlux is awesome on wheels. I've been using it almost exclusively for over a year now with great results. And Chad for something this hammered the truth teller needed to come out ;) Thanks guys

Ok, so you put the wrong coating on. I thought we were starting chapter 2 of the this is better than that......

Alright, I gotta know why the delux instead of coating. You know I learn from you so in the words of Desi Arnaz "splain Lucy"...

Is this something I want to change in my routine?
 
Ok, so you put the wrong coating on. I thought we were starting chapter 2 of the this is better than that......

Alright, I gotta know why the delux instead of coating. You know I learn from you so in the words of Desi Arnaz "splain Lucy"...

Is this something I want to change in my routine?

Dlux is wheel coating and trim coating. On wheels its awesome! Ill show you a video :)
 
Nice !!

Now need an application video, so I don't "user error" it please.

Gotta learn from the best
 
wow amazing difference!

Im not going to lie, the steel wool washed with the towels happened to me, there was no saving them lol.
 
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