A Tale of Twin Audi S5's, Corrected and Coated with Cquartz Finest...Greg Gellas Signature Detailing

Greg Gellas

I'm Greg :)
In December I corrected and coated this S5. S5 Corrected and coated with Cquartz finest by Greg Gellas Signature Detailing

Unfortunately Finest wasn't able to protect the car from this damage. Luckily the owner was uninjured. 
 
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The car was totaled by insurance. The owner was devastated, that car was his baby. Luckily for him he was able to located the EXACT same car, every option, even the color was the same. After speaking with Corey at Carpro, we decided to give Scott a discount on this one. Thanks again Corey! 
 
<span style="color:#282828;"><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">So I begin again on Scott's S5. I started with a full wash, iron-x, and a clay. I then went around and documented any paint damage. 
 
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 Let's check out some paint damage. 
 
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Some deeper RIDS throughout the paint. 

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<span style="color:#282828;"><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I began with M105 on a MF pad to level, I then followed up with M205 on a Rupes white pad. I tried a couple of combinations, but found this setup to knock out all the swirls and almost all the RIDS.  You can see the correction I was able to get from these 50/50's. 

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Every painted surface is just as important as the next.
 
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After correction I washed to remove any oils left from correction, <span style="color:#282828;"><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I followed that up with an eraser wipe down and then it got 2 coats of Cquartz Finest. Below you can see I am waiting for Finest to flash before leveling. 
 
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I coated the wheels with Cquartz Dlux. Wear a respirator! I put about 20ml in my airbrush bottle and sprayed away. I did get some drips, but that wasn't an issue since I had to level the wheels anyway.  By spraying I was able to get the barrels coated without having to remove the wheels. 
 
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Adhesive from the window sticker, that has to go, can't miss the little things :)
 
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 Every Cquartz Finest kit comes with a sticker, that corresponds with its warranty card. 
  
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 Let's see the results. 
 
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<span style="color:#282828;"><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As always, thanks for reading! Greg Gellas :) SignatureDetailing.com
 
Nothing like starting over again. You might want to mention to your client that he should be getting reinbursed from the insurance company for the Finest application. It was an permanent upgrade and should given credit. Let me know if you need any assistance.  B)
 
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