Hello all,

Here are a few recent details we have done at our new shop location. Things have been very busy for us and we are very thankful for that immense blessing. My clients have been very supportive of our new shop and have come out to support us in large numbers.

Up first is an Audi RS6. This car is one of my favorites. It sounds incredible, its very responsive, very fast and drives like a dream.....best of all it looks like a sleeper car until you get into the throttle :drive1[1]: I took it for a little spin at around 110!

One thing I and Ron have noticed about our shop is that we have great lighting....natural lighting in our shop now and I can see things so much better than in many of the parking areas I had been doing cars in. So I decided to go through this RS6 from head to toe.

It had some minor halo-scratches in the rock hard Audi clear and those were tackled with a white Lake Country polishing pad and 3M's EC and my Flex rotary. Some areas were hit with an LC wool pad also and then back down to the LC white pad.

From the white pad I went down to an Optimum blue pad and Optimum Polish (new version) and my Flex rotary.

I then rinsed out the blue pad, attached it to my Flex orbital and went over the paint with Ultrafina. I choose Opti-Seal as my protection.

I then removed all four wheels and cleaned the wheels wells as best I could. They were pretty nasty. I next moved on to the engine and cleaned that with my steamer. I dressed it with Optimum Protectant Plus and polished the carbon fiber.

It was given its second No Rinse washing and minor things finished like glass, tires dressed and trunk cleaned. While I was doing the exterior Ron tackled the interior with his steamer, Optimum Powerclean and Protectant Plus.

OK, on to some pictures.



Here are the wheels wells Before & After






































Here is the engine after being cleaned and dressed. Some of the metal parts were also polished. I don't have a before picture of the engine because it was really only dusty and dull.















Same case with the exterior. I have no before pictures because the marring just wouldn't show up in pictures very well so here are a few after shots.













More to come.........

 

Audi continued....














Late yesterday I picked up this 2003 Porsche TurboS to give it a full detail/paint correction. Last week Ron and I detailed his silver Turbo and he wanted this one done also. The paint wasn't in horrible shape, minor marring and some dingy leather.

Paint correction began with rotary and an LC white pad and 105. Then a blue pad and rotary with a mixture of Ultrafina and Optimum Polish. Last step was with a 100 ppi pad and Ultrafina. Victoria's paste wax was then applied with a gold 100 ppi pad and the dynabrade.


Just a couple of before pictures.













Here is Ron using the Metabo, finishing pad and Ultrafina.







Now for some sun pictures of this incredible machine.


























Thanks,
Anthony

 

Great job, Anthony! How do you like the Flex Rotary? How does it compare to the metabo?

Steve

 

Thank you very much Steve.

I have 3 Flex machines. 2 rotary and their orbital model. They are all very nice machines, very light, well balanced and fairly quiet.

They have a higher pitched whine than most rotaries but it's not unpleasant as some reviews have claimed. My only concern with the rotaries is that they tend to get a bit hot. It's a little heavier than my early Metabo but not as heavy as a Makita. You can also opt for a palm handle of the standard side handle.

With the orbital you can do some decent paint correction but again it gets pretty hot but so far I have noticed no issue with performance because of that. The nice thing about the Flex orbital is that even though it has nice torque the vibrations are minimal....even at speed 6.

Anthony

 

Very nice work, although IMHO the wheels on the 996TT are absolutely hideous.

 

Thank you.

Yes the wheels are a "love them/hate them" deal, nothing luke warm about them. I think it would look best with the black turbo wheels personally.

Anthony

 

I love the work done on the inner side of the wheels???

how did you do it?

what products did you use?


harris

 

Thank you Harris

I used a degreaser and my steam vapor cleaner. I first sprayed the area with a water based degreaser, in this case it was Optimum Powerclean. I allowed it to dwell for a few minutes and then scrubbed the area with a bristle brush and then hit it with my steamer.

Work from the bottom up. This way you don't dilute the degreaser as if you would working from the top down. If you work from the top down then as you rinse the top you'll wash away the degreaser on the bottom or lower areas.

I then used a water based dressing, in this case Optimum Protectant plus, to dress the plastic areas. It's best to use a water based product as it won't attract the gunk a solvent based dressing does.....which is the reason why so many wheel wells get so jacked up in the first place.

Hope this helps,
Anthony