I've been looking forward to this detail for a few weeks now, since we originally booked it. There's something about the Audi S and RS series of cars that are just so sexy! And this car was VERY tastefully modded from the RS4 front grille, S6 fogs, DPE wheels, painted roof, header back exhaust, and a perfect stance. Needless to say.. I wouldn't mind one
(especially in Ibis White---Correction Arctic White***).
Although the car was quite dirty. As stated in previous details, in the Bay Area, it's been about a month of off and on rain. Not to mention, this car WAS (
) a regular at an infamous detail place here called AJs. Those that are familiar with it know they get cars clean, but aside from that, they swirl and mar the paint like no other! And this car showed it.
I started bright an early at 8am Saturday morning. This is what I found when I pulled it out:
Notice the lack of gloss..
After initial inspection and a game plan formulated in my head I started off with a thorough pressure rinse of the car with my PW filtered with DI water:
After the rinse down, I moved on to the wheels. With the usual healthy helping of P21S Wheel Gel on the rim faces. The wheel wells and tires were doused with P21S TAW. Both were let to dwell for a few minutes, and then agitated with various brushes:
I then turned my attention to the engine bay. I had originally rinsed it down when I was rinsing the rest of the car, so it was all ready to be cleaned. The owner said he tried to keep it wiped down as much as possible, and surprisingly it showed. There was only a little bit of dirt, but overall not that bad!
After the initial rinse, I sprayed it with P21S TAW and let dwell for a few minutes before rinsing.
After the engine bay was finished, it was time for the foaming. I decided to try something different that was a little bit more agressive since the car was so dirty.
So what I mixed up was about 2 ounces of P21S TAW and about 2-3 ounces of Optimum Power Clean. Again, I wanted to see how much I could suds off with the high concentration of soap. It was then foamed on:
While the foam was setting in, I decided to tackle the door jambs with a sw brush, slide lock brush, and P21S TAW:
After that was done, I pressure rinsed the rest of the foam off. I was fairly happy with the cleaning results given, but it wasn't nearly enough. Instead of a second stage of foaming, I decided it'd be best to just use the normal method of washing with two buckets, two grit guards, genuine sheepskin mit, and CWG. This did the charm. The car was then blown dry and pulled inside.
Unfortunately the pics stopped, as I wanted to get the show on the road!! Once inside, after claying with
Meguiars Professional medium white clay, and luber as lube, I inspected under the halogens. Let me tell you.. trying to capture defects on the TiAG E46M seemed a cake walked compared to trying to capture defects with the halogens on the Artic White.
This was the best I could do with the hologens:
But the light of truth LED light did a decent job, when I could focus on the light right!!
The aftermarket painted gloss black roof:
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