I got powned, black 98 Audi A4 (many many pics)

[coupe]

Audi's are known for their incredibly-unbelivably-retardedly harder than diamond clear coat. Its the equivalent of trying to polish concrete to a high shine and remove all its blemishes, ya good luck with that lol
This car was a florida car obviously extremely abused by the previous owner. Paint correction only.
Process:
wash- gold class, very old mitt, 1 bucket and screw the foam gun, wasnt gonna hurt this paint job any worse than it was.
tires got simple green scrub down
Clay- blue magic
Rotary with:
Edge yellow wool medium cut with optimum compound at 2100rpms
Edge green wool light cut with optimum polish 1800rpms
edge blue foam polishing pad with optimum polish at 1200rpm's
PC with:
Danase 5" CCS pad and meguirse #80 at speed 6
Sealed with:
Meguairs #26 topped with duragloss aqua wax
tires:
no touch foam- satin
the tires where pretty old and no tire shine would last long, the tire would just suck it up, so i went with subtle.
On with the pics:

 

[coupe]

 

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[pirex]

Daaaaaaaamn!! Nice work!! I know how hard the audi clear coat is! The car looks like new. Sweet job bro.

 

[supercharged]

Looks pretty good to me. Like this shot:

 

[coupe]

Daaaaaaaamn!! Nice work!! I know how hard the audi clear coat is! The car looks like new. Sweet job bro.

Hahaha i wish, there where some extremely deep imperfections that where not fixable but yet very noticable.

The CC laughed at edge's yellow wool+OC @2100rpms, i couldnt believe it!

 

[Nica]

Very nice turn around, those swirls looked horrible. Looks like you went through a few steps there...question how long did this take you?

Vehicle looks great, thanks for sharing.

 

[coupe]

Very nice turn around, those swirls looked horrible. Looks like you went through a few steps there...question how long did this take you?

Vehicle looks great, thanks for sharing.

Believe it or not......12 hours.

I have never had to do this many steps before. The problem was that the CC is soooo hard you cant just go from wool to foam. I ussually just do wool, then foam, then foam again. If it wasnt for such hard clear i could have done it in 6 hours tops with 3 corrective steps at most.

 

[Nica]

Man that is hard clear coat, 12hrs is fast bro..probably would have taken me longer then that more like 18hrs or so

Looks very nice, good job.

 

[alban61]

Man! Those WERE some nasty swirls! You knocked them down! Car looks great!!
I loved your wash process. Made me LOL " wash- gold class, very old mitt, 1 bucket and screw the foam gun, wasnt gonna hurt this paint job any worse than it was".

 

[Sevenrd]

Man! Those WERE some nasty swirls! You knocked them down! Car looks great!!
I loved your wash process. Made me LOL " wash- gold class, very old mitt, 1 bucket and screw the foam gun, wasnt gonna hurt this paint job any worse than it was".

Same. I sometimes wonder why I bother doing a foam gun BHB wash on a car that's already covered in swirls.

Great work.

 

[Truls]

Same modell i did, yes the CC is hard on those Audis, next time im doing one im going for something from the Menzerna line.

Did a test spot on a same car you did, and it looks like it works faster on that CC (106ff so no heavy cutting stuff) But i suppose i had to step up some to do the whole car. But as said imo it did pretty well.

Anyway, the turnaround on that car you did, was awesome. good work

 

[coupe]

Same. I sometimes wonder why I bother doing a foam gun BHB wash on a car that's already covered in swirls.

Great work.

If im doing a paint restoration i dont waiste my time doing the washing correctly, i dont dry it either, whats the point? If i wash it incorrectly just 1 more time after its been washed incorrectly for god knows how many years i wont be doing that much more damage.

 

[killrflake]

Came out looking quite nice considering what you were given to work on. I'm so slow when I do a major job on a car in that kind of condition, it would have taken me at least five days. My hats off to you for the kind of work you did on that car. Great job.