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I decided this car needed a proper thread even though I never got a proper sun reveal.
I`ve known the owner of this car for several years through the car club. She traded up and into this sweet 2014 S5 with 16k or 18k miles, I forget which one.
She immediatly contacted me and said "I need you to work your magic on it" and expressed a concern with her wheels specifically "They`re really bad" which coming from here I knew was probably a serious issue.
She had the car at my house the next weekend and the journey began. Sometimes you get those jobs that really test your patience and skill. I thought this one was beyond me on several aspects, but luckily I was able to push through it and give her the car she meant to purchase, but better.
wash: 2bm, pb iron removal, pb foam, pb sss
clayed
rupes polishers and urofiber pads w/ the last cut compound and then yellow rupes pads with polish angel final finish
wheels: two iron removals and lots of tlc with poorboys a&m hd polish and some cut up rupes green pads that had shred themselves into another use
sealed three times (several hours apart) with polish angel super sport
tires: pb apc clean, pb bold n bright
the ppf: same thing as the paint but did a few extra passes to cut into whatever madness someone had installed into the ppf
glass moonroof was polished with pa final finish as it was heavily water stained as well
the paint: the only thing that remained were the RIDS, I ended up doing two slow and long passes with the compound and finishing it up with the final finish on speed 4.5 and I think it turned out fantastic except for the large and deep scratcehs you`d still find here and there
LSP: polish angel centurion, then polish angel gold zirkon
glass- polish angel diver
gave the owner two unopened blue dmts, a new micro chinelle wash mitt and a 16 bottle of n914 concentrate along with a list of recommended items to purchase from autopia (glissante, spray and wipe, grit guard, and a big blue drying towel)
all in all I dealt ppf that was tremendiously worse off than the bare black paint, wheels that may not have ever been cleaned properly by the previous owner, type I and II water spot etching, RIDS and whatever extreme RIDS would be called and exhaust tips that absolultely had never been touched in the life of the car
I was happy to be able to save the owner much more than the cost of the detail, which was more than she initally had anticipated but I think the results speak for themselves
She is very happy and has messaged me both days since she has had the vehicle back and sent me a picture the first day and earlier today she sent me a picture montage of shots I took on her phone of the car when she picked it up and told me she was going to name it The Black Widow. I told her I liked that name for the car, seems fitting.
pictures:
naked shots
naked side sun shot
did hood first
I`ve known the owner of this car for several years through the car club. She traded up and into this sweet 2014 S5 with 16k or 18k miles, I forget which one.
She immediatly contacted me and said "I need you to work your magic on it" and expressed a concern with her wheels specifically "They`re really bad" which coming from here I knew was probably a serious issue.
She had the car at my house the next weekend and the journey began. Sometimes you get those jobs that really test your patience and skill. I thought this one was beyond me on several aspects, but luckily I was able to push through it and give her the car she meant to purchase, but better.
wash: 2bm, pb iron removal, pb foam, pb sss
clayed
rupes polishers and urofiber pads w/ the last cut compound and then yellow rupes pads with polish angel final finish
wheels: two iron removals and lots of tlc with poorboys a&m hd polish and some cut up rupes green pads that had shred themselves into another use
sealed three times (several hours apart) with polish angel super sport
tires: pb apc clean, pb bold n bright
the ppf: same thing as the paint but did a few extra passes to cut into whatever madness someone had installed into the ppf
glass moonroof was polished with pa final finish as it was heavily water stained as well
the paint: the only thing that remained were the RIDS, I ended up doing two slow and long passes with the compound and finishing it up with the final finish on speed 4.5 and I think it turned out fantastic except for the large and deep scratcehs you`d still find here and there
LSP: polish angel centurion, then polish angel gold zirkon
glass- polish angel diver
gave the owner two unopened blue dmts, a new micro chinelle wash mitt and a 16 bottle of n914 concentrate along with a list of recommended items to purchase from autopia (glissante, spray and wipe, grit guard, and a big blue drying towel)
all in all I dealt ppf that was tremendiously worse off than the bare black paint, wheels that may not have ever been cleaned properly by the previous owner, type I and II water spot etching, RIDS and whatever extreme RIDS would be called and exhaust tips that absolultely had never been touched in the life of the car
I was happy to be able to save the owner much more than the cost of the detail, which was more than she initally had anticipated but I think the results speak for themselves
She is very happy and has messaged me both days since she has had the vehicle back and sent me a picture the first day and earlier today she sent me a picture montage of shots I took on her phone of the car when she picked it up and told me she was going to name it The Black Widow. I told her I liked that name for the car, seems fitting.
pictures:
naked shots
naked side sun shot
did hood first
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