We are all the way up north at Penang for this sleek Audi. Aged more than 4 years old, its gone through a major heart surgery, several paint damage repairs and also a so called professional grade paint coating.
Upon arrival, we inspect the exterior and evaluate the gloss and shine. It seem to look good until we dug deeper.
We first spot some daily driven damages like this.
Some watermark stains on white.
With a proper lighting or LED we can clearly see swirl damages. But what we didn’t expect is…
Then we found this. It a china made taflon coating which will crack or degrade overtime.
To our horror, we found the coating failures.
Without any lighting support, just by natural lighting, the scratches are pretty obvious.
When a proper LED is shine onto the surface. All damages revealed itself.
We started with the cleaning and claying, just by claying 1 panel the clay turned into a dark brown colour.
After several hours cleaning, we are able to restore the surface cleanliness to how it is suppose to be.
Tar removal was done for the entire car.
Remember before?
After.
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After correction and final inspection, the car is ready for coating process.
As always, the results has no caption for maximum gloss enjoyment.
Today we have here with us this beast, utterly neglected, abused, unprotected, heavily utilized for offroads. The owner came to us for a full restoration package and coating application. This was how to went.
Upon arrival, we can see that the car is tinted is shade of grey, thick coats of dust, sand and dirt, unwashed for months. Expecting what we are about to face, we continue on to inspect the surfaces.
As we were saying, thick coats of dust, sand and god knows what else.
Over the years, dist and stains has gotten stuck between the emblems as well.
We founds some very extreme watermark issues on the surface, so extreme that you can feel the humps when gliding your hand through.
Permanent damage is a common scene in these type of off-roading cars.
Scuff marks are practically every where on every panel.
Even on the roof, there were some severe scuff marks.
As we inspected the paint closer, we found the standard swirls underneath many layers of watermark.
On the sides.
Without wasting anymore time, we started on the correction, first was the chemical decontamination. All areas were not neglected.
Trims were all rejuvenated, scrubbed thoroughly
Tar spots are dissolved and removed.
As for the body, 1 single panel consist this amount of dirt stored after the car wash.
A quick flashback for Before.
And After correction.
Emblems were also removed to get the underneath polished.
Some scuff marks were successfully removed.
After completing the paint correction, we moved on to cleaning the engine. Here is a Real Time 50/50, not photoshoped.
A 50/50 on under section of the bonnet.
And finally, after cleaning.
Here are some sneak preview of the after polish.
The wheels are quite bad in shape, having lots of scuff marks, stains. Here is the before.
From the looks of it, it is not that dirty, but just run a finger through, you can see how dirty is it now.
Stains after cleaning.
The look after removing the stains
For the interior, we clean and condition the leather. Here is some 50/50 shots
Note the left side of the seat is cleaned, and the right is before.
After restoring the leather.
Finally, the cleaned and conditioned interior
The glass had some very irregular contamination on it. It felt like a 300 grid sand paper. So the solution was to clay the glass.
With just half the back window, the clay bar turned out so dirty, it is tar.
Finally, after 2 days of correction and coating application. Here are the results.
We have with us a monster today, a Godzilla. Being a beast, it requires also much pampering, when it comes to pampering, we are the best at it. Today’s project is quite different from our usual work. Let’s begin.
The car looked like this upon arrival and our mission? To remove the white. Yes you heard us right, remove the white.
Under the white, we founds some light swirl issues.
Some damage of the glossy black panels.
Some holograms on the repainted panels.
And also some holograms under the white.
We also removed the spoiler to reach the area under the spoiler. Holograms were spotted.
This it how it looks like with the white vinyl wrap removed. The paint is still in a good condition but dull and lacking some shine.
You guessed right, the white or Pearl white is actually a 3M vinyl wrap, underneath is its original metallic grey paint. We spent a day just to get the vinyl out safely without damaging the paint.
After that we removed the light swirls.
Swirls removed from all affected areas.
Black glossy panels were restored to perfection.
A closer look on the metallic flakes.
Finally just to double check the entire car’s repainted panels. we did a extensive inspection.
Then it started to rain. This marks our first day working on the car. As it has already taken alot of time preparing the car for coating, we stopped here and continued the next morning.
After more than 16hours, we finally got the car to a top notch condition and got it coated. Here are the very very glossy results.
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