Detailer's Domain: Audi A4 - Going back to the basics of detailing

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Subject: 2007 Audi A4

Requirements: Back to the basics with a deep cleaning and one step polish and wax



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

- Washed with 1Z einszett W99

- Wolf's Decon Gel

- Wash down and rinsed

- Door jambs were cleaned up

- Nano Scrub AutoScrub

- Dried

- Tires dressed

- Masking

- Paint Measurement

- Sonax 5/5 Fine Abrasive Paste - Uber Green Pad - Griots Orbital

- 1Z einszett Glanz Wax - Uber Black Pad

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

- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed

- Rubber and Plastics Treated

- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed

- Exhaust tips cleaned

- Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed



Interior

- Interior Vac

- Leather Cleaned/Conditioned (remove a denim stains and much more)

- Plastic - wiped down and protected



Engine

- Cleaned

- Dressed



Products used



Links to products used -



1Z einszett W99

Wolf's Decon Gel

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

NanoSkin AutoScrub System

Sonax Fine Abrasive Polish 5/5 - Coming Soon

1Z einszett Glanz

Adam's Super VRT

Optimum Metal Polish

1Z einszett Cockpit

Leather Master Strong Cleaner

Leather Master Vital Conditioner

Leather Master Super Remover

Uber Engine Detailing Kit



Tools used

Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Uber No Name MF Towels

Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher

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



Interior



Before

During

Dan kissing the clean door handle ; )

We found caked on dust on the seat rails

Cleaned up

Afters

Exterior

Before

Prep - Wash, Decon, Autoscrub, Wheels, Tires, Wheel Wells, Engine



Before shots of the engine

Not bad but we take a closer look to find.

APC on the motor and some brushing were needed to get rid of all that caked dirt and grime

Sonax 5/5 on was used by hand on the engine bay

Afters of engine bay

Pre soak

 

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Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner in action

We hit the wheels with various brushes

Here we have the wheel wooly in action (coming soon)

Prepping the car prior to Decon Gel/ in the canon a mix of Adam's Car Wash and W99

Wheel wells get some love

Wash mitts go to work

Rinse

Wolf's Decon Gel dwelling on the paint

Decon gel really setting in now

NanoSkin AutoScrub on the glass and paint (tons of lubricant)

Before shots of the jambs

Action shots

Trunk and Door jambs being taken care of

Afters of jambs (light polish and wax)

 

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Fuel door getting worked on

Yuck

Much better we hit them up again with polish and wax (sorry no shot)

Dirt, grime, road tar you name it, it was stuck on it.

Side skirts getting the treatment, APC first with some brushing followed by Stoner's Tarminator

Afters

Removing left over dressing with Stoner's Tarminator

Clean tires

Action shots

Finishing touches on the wheels

Wheels waxed and tires dressed

After wheel wells were cleaned up we used Adam's Undercarriage Spray to dress them up

Afters

 

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Pretty damn thorough for a 1 polishing step detail! Nice to see Glanz Wax still getting some love too.

 

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Pretty damn thorough for a 1 polishing step detail! Nice to see Glanz Wax still getting some love too.

yup Glanz is a great go to sealant/wax for metallic colored cars.