I've been on my S4 for a week now as I've been "Furloughed" by the company I work for.
Owned her for seven months but the first time I've had a chance to give her a deep clean/detail.
I think the previous owner must have been a fan of the local hand car wash mob going by the amount of swirls in the paintwork, plus my wife's cat likes to sleep on the roof when the suns out so lots of kitty claw marks on the bonnet, roof and boot, I've now told her that if I see her Siamese on the car I will be removing it's feet with my disc cutter!
2 stage machine mop with Ferracla G3 compound followed by G10 finishing polish, 2 coats of Bilt-Hamber Finis wax and a final coat of Ultima ceramic wax
Just the bonnet done at this point and not waxed.
You can see how hazy the paint was if you compare the light reflection on the roof to the bonnet.
Once I had completed the bodywork I moved onto the wheels, someone in the past (as previously mentioned and not me) had left wheel cleaner on for too long so it had etched into the top coat, so the wheels had the same cutting as the body but finished off with Autobright-Direct Very Berry wheel wax, all by hand as I didn't want to run the risk of cutting through using the DA.
Before
After
I also had to change the front discs and pads, as again someone in the past had changed them with genuine Audi/VAG parts but fitted the wrong size discs, 320mm instead of the correct 345mm, it maybe even came from the factory like that as there no sign of them being changed in the full Audi S/H I have and the cars only on 23k miles now (15 plate)
Top 320mm, bottom 345mm
The pads didn't look to clever
Like several others while I had the wheels off I painted the brake back plates and washed/polished the calipers.
I didn't do a lot on it over the weekend other than the external trim/rubbers with Autoglym trim/rubber cleaner conditioner.
Start on the inside today (Monday 6th).
Owned her for seven months but the first time I've had a chance to give her a deep clean/detail.
I think the previous owner must have been a fan of the local hand car wash mob going by the amount of swirls in the paintwork, plus my wife's cat likes to sleep on the roof when the suns out so lots of kitty claw marks on the bonnet, roof and boot, I've now told her that if I see her Siamese on the car I will be removing it's feet with my disc cutter!
2 stage machine mop with Ferracla G3 compound followed by G10 finishing polish, 2 coats of Bilt-Hamber Finis wax and a final coat of Ultima ceramic wax
Just the bonnet done at this point and not waxed.
You can see how hazy the paint was if you compare the light reflection on the roof to the bonnet.
Once I had completed the bodywork I moved onto the wheels, someone in the past (as previously mentioned and not me) had left wheel cleaner on for too long so it had etched into the top coat, so the wheels had the same cutting as the body but finished off with Autobright-Direct Very Berry wheel wax, all by hand as I didn't want to run the risk of cutting through using the DA.
Before
After
I also had to change the front discs and pads, as again someone in the past had changed them with genuine Audi/VAG parts but fitted the wrong size discs, 320mm instead of the correct 345mm, it maybe even came from the factory like that as there no sign of them being changed in the full Audi S/H I have and the cars only on 23k miles now (15 plate)
Top 320mm, bottom 345mm
The pads didn't look to clever
Like several others while I had the wheels off I painted the brake back plates and washed/polished the calipers.
I didn't do a lot on it over the weekend other than the external trim/rubbers with Autoglym trim/rubber cleaner conditioner.
Start on the inside today (Monday 6th).
