What was done: - 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 X - Wash down and rinsed - Door jambs were cleaned up - Clayed - Dried - Tires dressed - Masking - Paint Measurement - 2 Step – Menzerna Super Intensive Polish with Uber Green Pad followed by Menzerna PO85RD with Uber Blue Pad - Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight - Last Step – Nano Coating - Rubber and Plastics Treated - Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed - Exhaust tips cleaned - Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed - Jambs steam cleaned Engine - - Cleaned and Dressed Interior - Quick interior wipe down and vac. Products Used 1Z einszett W99 Iron X Uber Blue Clay Bar Kit Menzerna Super Intensive Polish Menzerna PO85RD Cquartz Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner Adam’s Super VRT Optimum Metal Polish Adam’s Glass Cleaner Interior 1Z einszett Cockpit Leather Master Soft Cleaner Leather Master Vital Conditioner Engine Adam's APC Adam's In and Out Spray Tools used Uber Wool Wash Mitt Uber No Name MF Towels Porter Cable 7424XP Flex PE14-2-150 Uber Buffing Pads Defelsko Paint Meter Fenix TK11 Brinkmann Kranzle Pressure Washer Cam Spray Foam Canon 2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies Uber Firehose Nozzle Interior Before Interior After Engine Before Adam's In and Out Engine After Before shots (lots of salt) Pre Wash - Iron X - Rinse Clay Bar Paint measurement The type of work ahead of us 50/50 shots Rinse prior coating After shots Permission to post this write up granted by the owner Enjoy!
I've used all 4 now - Nano, Aquartz, Cquartz, and Opti Coat. I like them all they all have good points and bad points. I just did Aquartz on a 2001 TT in black, not too bad and Aquartz on an IS250 that looked great! Nanolex on the wife's Q7 and it looks great! Opti Coat on a ton of wheels and a car I just sold, worked great! I'm just waiting to see how they hold up. I'll be doing my daily hopefully this weekend.
looks great phil love the second to last picture, paint looks awesome. salt? we haven't seen that in weeks haha how is there some still on that car? also, I thought nanolex wasn't able to be brought into the u.s., or at least they don't sell it in the u.s yet?
Here is my 2 cents coatings are great on new cars. Light polish, and a good wipe down with Top Inspection. On older cars you have to get it as close to perfect as you can, then strip anything off the paint to ensure proper application of the treatment. The Q5 here took a beating over the winter and there were some deep scratches we could not remove. We just did a 10 year old TT and we could not remove everything but the customer was very pleased with the results. The coatings are definitely more forgiving on silver, light metallic paint, and whites.
Great work Phil the Audi looks great. I am hoping to get a coating next month I am leaning towards Opti Coat
Nice work Phil, I have not yet tried SIP on a green Uber pad but it looks like you got some great results. Will have to try that...
