2002 Audi S8 2 & 3 step paint correction

[Audios S6]

This car was form one of the local audi forums. Current owner just purchased the car as a daily driver and was trying to get it back into top condition. The week prior he had the leather recoated, which case out nice aside from a few spots that were too far gone. The already knew the bumper and hood needed a respray from all the rock chips of 150K miles. On initial inspection, it looks like a ton of lighter defects on the hood and some more significant ones on the doors. The car had clearly spent a lot of time at the swirl-o-matic. I had initally planned on a one step to get to 80%+ correction, but after seeing the test spot the owner wanted to take it further, so the top portions for a two step and the sides got a 3+ step correction as noted below.

Process:

Wheels and tires got DUB wheel cleaner, megs D103, PERL and Permanon platinum
Foam presoak with BH surfex HD and CG citrus wash + gloss
2BM with CG citrus wash clear
ONR as clay lube with nanoskin autoscrub on the GG6

Top portions tried the rupes UHS and did well but proceeded to:
Compound: FG400 on megs MF pads on rupes
Polish: FF3000 on LC white hybrid on rupes

Sides:
Heavy cutting: PG1000 on wool with rotary TWICE very quickly to avoid any burns
Compound: FG400 on megs MF pads on rupes
Polish: FF3000 on LC white hybrid on rupes & flex 3401

Bumpers:
Heavy cutting: PG1000 on wool with rotary very quickly to avoid any burns
Compound: FG400 on megs MF pads on flex 3401
Polish: FF3000 on LC white hybrid on flex 3401

Finished with BFWD
B pillars got FF3000 on 4" green buff and shine on flex 3401
Trim got water based UTTG
Exhaust got S100 polishing soap and CG heavy metal

On arrival, very dirty









Filthy german brakes



Typical swirls on door



nasty RID on the drivers side and more swirls



typical of entire car



b-pillar before and after





after rupes UHS system, very good on the moderately hard paint, but owner wanted more after seeing the test spot



So I turned upside down and that made all the difference, along with FG400 and MF pads





quarter panel test with FG400 did not get the job done, neither did one cycle with PG1000 wool and rotary, so we did it twice, problem solved

FG400 only


2x PG1000 with wool and rotary


wheels all cleaned up



A lot of cutting did the trick

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Sides were not perfect, but massive improvement. The damage had already been done by the swirl-o-matic



iphone of hood that was just about perfect, line between compound and polish barely visible.



thanks for looking

 

[Ebg18t]

Good recovery of that swirled up paint.

 

[SameGuy]

Wow, messy. Great work! I'm guessing the new owner got a great deal on the car.

 

[Audios S6]

Wow, messy. Great work! I'm guessing the new owner got a great deal on the car.

I don't know if the deal was that great. These cars do have issues, tranny, oil cooler, valve covers, cam chain guides are the big ones. This car got a new crated tranny when the original failed so the previous owner cared about the mechanics and knew what to do. He probably cared about the aesthetics too, just had no clue how to properly do things in that respect. I did find some old polish deep in the jambs and holograms so it had been detailed at one point.

 

[Munich77]

I love S8s - that is one heck of a cool daily driver.

 

[Dereksdtail]

Awesome turnaround!

 

[davey g-force]

Very nice work :xyxthumbs:

Cool car too..