drpellypo Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 This belongs to the son in law of the person who's Audi Coupe Quattro I did. Audi's run in the family! It's a 2.8 Petrol. Average fuel economy on the trip was less than 18mpg :tumbleweed: 113 thousand miles on the clock. That's a lot of petrol! The weather was nasty over the two days I did this detail, so not really easy to picture defects, or the final finish. It wasn't too bad actually, especially for the age. Certainly wasn't swirled to bits. My pressure washer had been stuck at the back of the building cabin and there was a stack of stuff piled in front of it (builders!) so I dropped the snow foam routine. Process therefore was: Pre-wash with Surf City Garage Road Trip Grime Destroyer (this stuff is pretty much identical to P21s Autowash, just a bit thicker) Washed TBM with some of my shampoo Dried with Surf City Garage Wet Vac towel Clayed with Polyclay using Megs LT as lube Played around with various pads and polish combos, ended up on 3m yellow top on a Megs pad. Paint was ROCK hard, however the megs pad and Makita dealt with pretty much every panel on one hit. Headlights hit with 3m with the Makita. Washed again. Zaino Z2 accelerated and left on for 45 minutes, followed by another coat, followed by Z8 (I've just realised I put Z10 on the customers invoice. I hope he doesn't google it and wonder why I sprayed his car with leather cleaner!) Interior done with 303 aerospace and carpets and seats with APC. Some before pictures: Didn't come out too well in this pic, but there was bad swirling, but only on this panel. It was much worse than the rest of the car. After pics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahaydock Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Top work as usual Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Thanks mate. Incidentally, the interior pics are not the after ones! I can't edit the post now though. The interior pics shows were actually taken just before I did the interior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelwind101 Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Nice work Paul! Is the Mazda yours as well? Glad the road trip grime remover is working out, i had a few shots on the door panels the other day, really effective. What do you make of the 3m gear? Im hearings its pretty good with lots of worrying health info on the labels? Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted February 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Thanks Geoff. The 3m stuff is cracking. I've never noticed the h&s stuff. I do always wear nitrile gloves though, and I wear glasses, so no chance of splashback. There's actually a lot to consider where detailing and H&S is concerned. I was talking to Paul Dalton about this a few days ago. He wears a dust mask when he's machine polishing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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