BRZN Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) I wasn’t planning on a write up with this car and didn’t take many pictures to do before and afters, but it’s early and I have nothing better to do right now. So, here you go… A month/six weeks ago a neighbor asked if I’d detail her 9,400 mile, 2013 Audi A4 S Line Quattro I said sure, gave her my rate of $12/hr, and made arrangements to get the car while she and her husband went away for their 25th wedding anniversary. Saturday, a week ago, I had her stop by with the car so I could look it over with her and discuss what she wanted done, as well as the time it would take me to perform the work. She washes the car almost weekly, and it has seen the local drive through car wash a time or two. Well, reality set in as we walked around the car and talked. It has RIDS all over it, with many deeper scratches, scuffs, marring and water etching. Here's a few: She’d not noticed them, or was complacent about them, they didn’t seem to bother her and upwards of $300 for me to detail the vehicle with a full paint correction wasn’t in her planned budget. We settled on a thorough wash inside and out, clay bar and Liquid Paint Sealant as the protection. It’s a neighbor, and I quoted her $100. I figured it’d be a $125 job, but a first timer could become repeat business, so I’d eat $25 of my time. I received the car Monday evening and worked on it for a couple/few hours each evening. Since they were gone I put my GTO in their garage and kept her car here at the house. Evening One: I pulled it in the garage Floor, Mats and Trunk Vacuumed Seats, Dash, Door Panels, Other Plastics Wiped Down with Total Interior Detailer Interior Glass Cleaned Evening Two: Wheels, including Rear Barrels Cleaned with Deep Wheel Cleaner and Wheel Faces Sealed with Aerosol Quick Sealant Brake Calipers Cleaned Tires Scrubbed with All Purpose Cleaner and Dressed with Tire Shine Inner Fenders Scrubbed and Dressed with Undercarriage Spray Dressing Top of Engine Cleaned, Including Painted Areas Under Hood and Tops of Inner Fenders I’d planned on polishing the exhaust tips, thought they were covered in soot. Nope, they’re actually flat black. Evening Three: To start, this is a good 30 footer Exterior thoroughly Cleaned, and Stripped of any Previous Waxes or Sealants using 4oz APC along with 2oz Car Shampoo All Door Jambs Cleaned, Including Painted Areas Under Trunk Lid. I don’t believe she’d been cleaning these areas herself. Also inside her gas cap flap, cleaned in there where she obviously hadn't been. Dried with my Master Blaster Clay Barred to remove Embedded Contaminants from the Paint and Exterior Glass. This car didn’t need the baggie test; it was extremely rough to the touch with just my bare hand. I completely trashed a 100 gram bar of Adam’s Clay. Evening Four: Vehicle Exterior Protected using a Combination of Aerosol Quick Sealant and Liquid Paint Sealant Door Jambs also received Aerosol Quick Sealant All Exterior Glass Cleaned Glass Sealant was Applied to the Windshield Exterior Black Plastics Dressed with SVRT, including the lower inner fender splash guards Front and Rear Honeycomb Inserts, and Inside Front Grille, were hit with In & Out Spray I gave her one freebee. I’m hoping this will help with repeat business and a needed paint correction to this car: I Performed a Quick, One Step Machine Polishing of her Hood with Paint Correcting Polish and a Microfiber Pad to see how well the Paint would correct; it came out real nice. After the Correction to the hood I applied Liquid Paint Sealant then topped that with Brilliant Glaze and finished it off with a coat of Americana Premium Paste Wax. The car's now a awesome 10 footer! The piano black of the front grille really came alive with the Quick Sealant and blackening the area behind with In & Out Spray. 9.5 hours total, excluding the time to do the correction to the hood. Edited August 30, 2014 by BRZN The Guz, LFairbanks and Aaron@P2PQD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris@Adams Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Man that thing was trashed......Nice save Dave! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2hill Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Nice work Dave! I did the main 'high gloss panel' (the hood) for a co-worker today. It was a 'wash and seal' job, with a clean up of a parking lot scrape. He stuck around to help, so I threw in the hood. Now he sees how deep the hood looks and how much work went into it, he may be more likely to go for a full correction next time! BRZN and Team Adam's 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natch02 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Nice Job. And a great price to. BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Bowtie Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Great job as always Dave! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron@P2PQD Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Nice work Dave, Flat black exhaust tip would have been a surprise! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce5 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Very nice considering that full paint correction was not performed. BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fphillips Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Nice Work Dave!! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Very nice and your neighbor got a heck of a deal! A hundy for that level of improvement is a bargain. BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael@Adams Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Before reading what you said about the pipes, I thought they were soot too! Great results though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Adam's Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Great job as always Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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