I had the pleasure this weekend of working on one of my all-time favorite cars, an Audi S4 in Brilliant Black. The owner has had the car since new, and while it is in great shape for its age, it needed a little attention here and there. First off, I want to point out to anyone doing an Audi vert in the future, under no circumstances should you operate the top while on in incline or let go of the switch before the cycle is through. The top WILL get stuck, and you'll spend several hours hating life, hating Audi and hating Google before figuring out how to manually reset the top. :doh: Anyway, on to the show. Engine bay was in good shape. Sprayed some Megs APC+ 4:1, flushed with ONR at QD dilution Vacuumed the underhood heat guard KAIO on the underhood paint Opti-Bond 1:1 to dress plastics Before After No good pics of the wheels, but they got Brown Royal 1:1 and an entire can of Tarminator. At some point, I'd like to remove them to get all the tar off the inside. Believe me, there was a LOT of it, and not all of it came off this time. Spare tire had been used at some point, so I cleaned it off just like the other wheels. Much easier, plus it didn't have as much tar inside. Exhaust cleaned with Brown Royal, polished with Megs UC and 0000 steel wool. Cleaning the inside of exhausts w/ wheel cleaner was an idea I got from Richy. Thanks man! On to the paint. Nothing special, just the average swirled black car. Compounded with GGDA and Surbufs with M105. In some of the following pics what look like swirls are actually the haze from the Surbuf pads. Finding out how to finish the car was a challenge. I tried the usual 205 combos, 85rd, etc. After speaking to Michakaveli, I tried something Todd Helme had posted about a while ago, and I was beyond surprised to find it worked like a charm. Finishing was done w/ 105 on a crimson HT pad. Final touches: LSP was Wolfgang Deep Gloss Sealant 3.0 Collinite 845 on wheels and exhaust(never tried this, we'll see how it works) Opti-Bond 1:1 on tires Sorry for the lack of sunlight on the before and after pics, that kind of thing is out of my control! Thanks for looking, and as always comments and criticisms are welcome.
Thank you. Not this time. I'm going to his house Sunday to do the interior and do some more little touchups. I'll do it then.
