Black Audi A5, paint correction & Opti-Guard coating: Rasky`s Auto Detailing

[RaskyR1]

The owner on this beautiful car recently found me online. After exchanging a few emails inquiring on pricing/options we scheduled a time for me to evaluate the car. Upon inspection there were some obvious signs of previous rotary work, clay marring, and a few deep RIDS, but most of swirling looked like it would come out with a 2-step method, which was the route we decided upon. The owner arrived Friday evening at about 6:00 and he had arranged with me to stick around for a few hours so that he could get a better understanding of the washing/drying process. Basically he wanted to help protect his investment with me and keep the car looking as nice as possible. Usually my plan for Friday is to get the car prepped for polishing on Saturday morning. If there is time I will also do a few test spots to determine the best process for polishing. My Original plan of attack was D300/MF followed by 106fa and the initial spot looked great minus a few deeper scratches. However, after hitting a few other panels I was finding there were LOTS of deeper scratches hidden by the swirls which appeared to have been induced from previous rotary work (likely from a dirty wool pad). Some of these scratches required more than one pass with M105/PFW on the rotary! With the owner still watching me do my test spots and seeing the results, we decided to make it a 3-step job as there were just too many scratches left over from only doing a 2-step...being that we were coating the car we were striving for about 90-95% correction.



Process:

Wash - Foam Cannon with CGCW & OPC mix, Lambs wool mitt
Wheels - Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
Clay - Clay Magic and ONR as lube (owner had also clayed previously)
Paint Correction:
Step 1 - M105 via rotary and PFW pad
Step 2 - D300 via GG6 DA and MF cutting pad
Step 3 - 106fa via GG6 and tangerine LC Hydro foam pad
Coating Prep - Foam cannon and wash with OPC and CGCW mix, followed by DI rinse
Tires - Megs Hyper Dressing 3:1
Glass - Megs D120
LSP - Optimum Opti-Guard


The wheels were also removed to better clean up tar from inner barrels and to apply the Opti-Guard. Wheels were then reinstalled and torqued to factory specs.

Before pics













50/50 shots after D300/MF









Dual Brinkmanns



After final polishing



Focused on the paint surface....



Focused on the reflection....



Brinkmann



Flash



Reflection shots







Finished pics
























Thanks for looking,
Rasky

[CH.Detailing]

Pimptastic! Great job Chad, that paint looks supa-fresh!

[BIOLINK]

Pimptastic! Great job Chad, that paint looks supa-fresh!

Not sure which is better...the Audi or the word Pimptastic!

Seriously though, nice work on the care. Love it!

[overtimedetail]

wow that thing looks wet!!

[Todd@RUPES]

That looks amazing Chad, thanks for sharing!

[RaskyR1]

Thanks guys!



Gotta give props to Todd Helme too for the finishing technique!

[Old Pirate]

Always a pleasure to see your work Chad!

[ca.detailchick]

Cant get any better than that Rasky! Thats a beautiful peice of work!

[mrclean81]

Very nice work

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[93fox]

looks awesome! great work as always Chad!

[TroyScherer]

Amazing work Chad!!!

[rurocking]

Makes me want to buy a black car.

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful work Chad.

[Rocket]

Amazing job, car looks beautiful

[Todd@RUPES]

Thanks guys!



Gotta give props to Todd Helme too for the finishing technique!

Blah... It`s not my finishing technique, and props to the guy who uses it and makes paint look like THAT!