98 Black Audi A4

[coupe]

This car was a florida car obviously extremely abused by the previous owner. Paint correction only.



Process:

wash- gold class, very old mitt, 1 bucket and screw the foam gun, wasnt gonna hurt this paint job any worse than it was.

tires and rims got simple green scrub down



Clay- clay magic blue





Rotary with:

Edge yellow wool medium cut with optimum compound at 2100rpms

Edge green wool light cut with optimum polish 1800rpms

edge blue foam polishing pad with optimum polish at 1200rpm's



PC with:

Danase 5" CCS white polishing pad and meguirse #80 at speed 6



Sealed with:

Meguairs #26 topped with duragloss aqua wax



tires:

no touch foam- satin

the tires where pretty old and no tire shine would last long, the tire would just suck it up, so i went with subtle.



11 1/2 hours, paint only.



On with the pics:

 

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[imported_cj99si]

Takin care of the good stuff:cooleek:

 

[coupe]

It was pretty bad, there where etches that where HUGE that have gone right through tthe clear, many many scratches that where way to deep to remove, what looked like CC in a bottle in spots just globbed on, deep deep stains of some kind.......the list just keeps going.



Its not up to my standards one bit, just to damaged to do anything about it.

 

[99blackSE]

Like I said before Rand, looks like a good turnaround to me!

 

[coupe]

Im still shocked at how hard this CC was, just amazing. It laughed at my wool pads even at 2100rpms.

 

[Perfect Touch]

Yes please! Rad!

 

[imported_artikxscout]

your makita is happy and so is the owner of the audi i bet.

 

[davekt]

Nice tunaround there bet the owner was impressed.

Well done.

Dave

 

[coupe]

I hope so, it was such a nightmare. I got so upset with it a few times and had to set down my makitta and take a step back.

 

[itb76]

So you like the wool pads? :grinno:



Awesome turnaround. :goodjob Yeah it's an older car, but that paint was terrible! Hope you got paid well.

 

[coupe]

I LOVE wool pads! Its all i use for cutting now, wont use foam what-so-ever for cutting :lol

 

[Accumulator]

Coupe- Nice job, I appreciate a good beater make-over :xyxthumbs The wheels sure came out nice and clean.



Heh heh, how'd you like working on *hard* paint? IIRC some soft paint has been bugging you recently.

 

[coupe]

Coupe- Nice job, I appreciate a good beater make-over :xyxthumbs The wheels sure came out nice and clean.



Heh heh, how'd you like working on *hard* paint? IIRC some soft paint has been bugging you recently.

Honestly hard paint is just as bad as soft paint lol

I dont know how people can polish audis with a PC, even with 4" pads.