2012 Audi S4 - New Car Prep and Clear Film Installation

Subject: 12 Audi S4 Monsoon Gray

Requirements - New Car Prep - Clear Film Installation - Full Hood, Full Fenders, Full Bumper

What was done -
Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Pre Washed with W99
- Iron Cut
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Clayed
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Wolf's Shine and Seal
- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
- Wheel wells were cleaned
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed

Links to products used -

1Z einszett W99
Adam's All Purpose Cleaner
Aquartz Iron Cut
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
Uber Clay Bar Kit
Meguiar's Microfiber DA Compound D300
Wolf's Shine and Seal
Sonax Tire Gel
Optimum Metal Polish
Sonax Glass Cleaner
Wolf's Chemicals Glass Guard
Wolf's Chemicals Rim Shield

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Porter Cable 7424XP
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before





Prep
Sonax Full Effect


Wash


Rinse


Debadge and Install Supercharged Badges (dental floss followed by 3m adhesive remover)







Wolf's Rim Shield applied - Sonax Tire Gel on the tires


Wolf's Glass Guard



Wolf's Shine and Seal applied




Clear Film install


After shots

 

Nice! Hot car too!

 

Fantastic work there Phil!

What is your process for applying the rim guard? Do you just get as much of the barrel as you can?

-Kody-

 

Nice work. Why the badge change? V6T not correct?

 

I hate Audi for selling you a S4 with a " V6T " badge and having you pay extra for the " supercharged " badge. sneaky sneaky Audi!

Good job like always!

 

it's a $35 badge no big deal. but yes it should have came with Supercharged badges.

its correct in the motherland.

 

Kody,

It was pretty easy as this are the Tri Spoke OEM wheels you can get 95% coverage on these. A real breeze to work on.

 

Thanks Phil, the rims looks really nice.

-Kody-

 

Explain the badge thing again? Doesn't the "T" stand for turbo, yet we're swapping them for supercharged badges?

 

the audi reps say since its force feed its considered a turbo (per what I read during the release of the car) I said the same thing everyone else said why when its a supercharged car...anyway no big deal, most either take it off or pick up the supercharged badge for $38-60 bucks at the dealer.

manufacturers can make mistakes too ; )

 

So the Factory put the wrong badge on it then? It's really Supercharged?

Supercharged engines and Turbocharged engines are both force fed but differently, and Supercharged engines are "on" all the time, while Turbocharged engines rely on exhaust gases to spool up the turbo (unless its a really small one or dual small ones), and this takes just a little longer to realize.
I've had both, and the Supercharged Ford Lightning had way more power at the tiniest movement of the throttle because it was inhaling cold air before the engine, and not hot exhaust gas after the fact. The Turbocharged Buick Grand National was also very fast, had a smaller turbo, and spooled quickly but I think the Lightning would always have had the jump on it all things being equal.

Beautiful car, insanely beautiful work !!!!! You guys are da Masta's !!!!!

Dan F

 

well I'm pretty sure they put it there for a reason most likely the definition of it. because there are a whole heck of a lot of mistakes than over 6000 per production year lol.

so since we are in year 3-4 for the B8 S4 that's a whole heck of a lot of wrong badges lol

 

Phil, are you doing film installations again? I would have you do my front bumper in a hot minute.

LOL @ Audi and the supercharged vs. turbocharged debacle. In the forced induction world, the debate over which is better is endless, and calling one the other would be a big no-no.

A snippet from Wikipedia for those interested.

Supercharging versus turbocharging Positive-displacement superchargers may absorb as much as a third of the total crankshaft power of the engine, and, in many applications, are less efficient than turbochargers. In applications for which engine response and power are more important than any other consideration, such as top-fuel dragsters and vehicles used in tractor pulling competitions, positive-displacement superchargers are very common.
There are three main categories of superchargers for automotive use:

• Centrifugal turbochargers – driven from exhaust gases.
• Centrifugal superchargers – driven directly by the engine via a belt-drive.
• Positive displacement pumps – such as the Roots, Twin Screw (Lysholm), and TVS (Eaton) blowers.

The thermal efficiency, or fraction of the fuel/air energy that is converted to output power, is less with a mechanically driven supercharger than with a turbocharger, because turbochargers are using energy from the exhaust gases that would normally be wasted. For this reason, both the economy and the power of a turbocharged engine are usually better than with superchargers. The main advantage of an engine with a mechanically driven supercharger is better throttle response, as well as the ability to reach full-boost pressure instantaneously. With the latest turbocharging technology, throttle response on turbocharged cars is nearly as good as with mechanically powered superchargers, but the existing lag time is still considered a major drawback, especially considering that the vast majority of mechanically driven superchargers are now driven off clutched pulleys, much like an air compressor.
Turbochargers suffer (to a greater or lesser extent) from so-called turbo-spool (turbo lag; more correctly, boost lag), in which initial acceleration from low RPM is limited by the lack of sufficient exhaust gas mass flow (pressure). Once engine RPM is sufficient to start the turbine spinning, there is a rapid increase in power, as higher turbo boost causes more exhaust gas production, which spins the turbo yet faster, leading to a belated "surge" of acceleration. This makes the maintenance of smoothly increasing RPM far harder with turbochargers than with engine-driven superchargers, which apply boost in direct proportion to the engine RPM.
Roots blowers tend to be 40–50% efficient at high boost levels. Centrifugal superchargers are 70–85% efficient. Lysholm-style blowers can be nearly as efficient as their centrifugal counterparts over a narrow range of load/speed/boost, for which the system must be specifically designed.
Keeping the air that enters the engine cool is an important part of the design of both superchargers and turbochargers. Compressing air increases its temperature, so it is common to use a small radiator called an intercooler between the pump and the engine to reduce the temperature of the air.
In the 1985 and 1986 World Rally Championships, Lancia ran the Delta S4, which incorporated both a belt-driven supercharger and exhaust-driven turbocharger. The design used a complex series of bypass valves in the induction and exhaust systems as well as an electromagnetic clutch so that, at low engine speeds, boost was derived from the supercharger. In the middle of the rev range, boost was derived from both systems, while at the highest revs the system disconnected drive from the supercharger and isolated the associated ducting.[SUP][10][/SUP] This was done in an attempt to exploit the advantages of each of the charging systems while removing the disadvantages. In turn, this approach brought greater complexity and impacted on the cars reliability in WRC events, as well as increasing the weight of engine ancillaries in the finished design.
The Volkswagen TSI engine (or Twincharger) is a 1.4-litre direct-injection motor that also uses both a supercharger and turbocharger


BTW, the car came out great Phil!!!!!!

 

yes we have some guys coming in to do our clear film work again.

 

Goofy badge or not, that is a beautiful car. Nice work Phil.

 

sweet

 

my dream car!