My friend works in the car business and when this 2008 Audi S5 was traded in, he snapped it up. It's a low mileage example, with just barely 30K on the ticker. However, it had seen quite a few years of abuse and heavy usage. The paint had scratches, dings, scraped, what have you. First step was to get the dings removed, which was done before I detailed it. I'll let the picture do the talking: Before When the car was traded in, I made sure the dealership's detailer's didn't get a hold of it. Some swirls... Ready for a bath. The 135i wasn't happy on sharing her garage space. Great shampoo by Sonax. Not much evidence of protection here, and the Sonax stripped the rest. We were not messing around: Bleche White on the tires, and Meg's Wheel Brightner on the wheels. Randon bath shot. Put away for the night. Random shot of the washed wheels. Should really have finished putting my floor down. I could get used to having the S5 in the garage! Flicked on the lights and saw the damage.
Damage on the clear bra. A 50/50 shot. I used the green Uber pad with 203S for the whole car. Damage. Fixed! Clear bra before. Clear bra after. 50/50 of the clear bra. Checking my work in the sun. Too deep to remove. All done! Lovely interior! And the last sun shot before I drove it over to the dealership where my friend was working today.
great work man! very nice looking results how do you like the floor tiling? if you spill water on top of the tiles, does it seep through the seems? what are the benefits of laying down the tiles on the garage floor slab?
Thanks! Love the Racedeck floor, I have no complaints about it whatsoever so far. I was worried that under the weight of the Cummins, the floor would warp or move when I was turning the wheels. Tried it and no movement of the tiles whatsoever. The tiles are very close together with you snap them, but still enough for water to get through. If you look at the bottom of the tiles, it does have a way of "flowing" or in other words going somewhere if your car is dripping with water. If you have a sloped garage, then the water would just exit the garage as it would if you didn't have the tiles. I personally like the look of the tiles and it protects from chipping and stains if I were to drop something heavy (such as jackstands) or spill some kind of chemical/oil.
Thanks for the cheat sheet, I have an A5 this month....... single stage to clean it up. Now I know what will work. LOL outstanding work......... what did you use for your LSP?
Looking great Piet!! That bodystyle looks so classy. Question ... is there a reason why you didn't touch the exhaust tips?
Thank you sir! LSP was CG EZ Creme Glaze topped with Menzerna Power Lock. Thanks! It's taken a while, but it's finally coming together. I'm building a work bench with my neighbor but I doubt there will much "work" done on it! Once I have all the tiled put down, it'll be finished. For now! I actually did it before I pulled the car out of the garage as I had overlooked it. I used Adam's Metal Polish. But frankly, it hardly made a dent in it. Those things were never cleaned and probably needed some serious attention and I frankly didn't have time to mess with it. I did this car for two bottles of tequila, by the way
No problem man ... have you ever tried WB with steel wool to clean exhaust tips? I does an amazing job with little effort.
Never personally tried it, but I have seen it being used with great success. Really should have since I had the WB out anyways for the wheels...
