PhilT's RS4

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PhilT's RS4

Post by Reflect Russ » Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:00 pm

Having finished Phils RS6 Plus it was time to drop onto another little beast in the form of a track spec RS4....again Silver/Blue but hey, makes a difference to black all the time....again wheels were removed by Phil before arrival....This is what lay in wait for me....

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Wheels didn't look in too bad a condition as you can see but the insides took me almost 2hrs as they were spread thick with old weight adhesive, and plenty of it on all 4 wheels....

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They were cleaned with Iron X and my own wheel cleaner....various brushes and plenty of Tardis, and I mean plenty of Tardis....Almost called the Dr to borrow his....

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Degreaser was applied to the paintwork and subsequently rinsed, washed with Zymol Shampoo, rinsed and dried....Iron x then made another appearance....Rinsed and clayed with DJ Supernatural Clay....

Iron X at work....
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Again as it was silver it was difficult to make out any defects but i will try to show these....

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And a 50-50 if you can make it out....

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Anyway carrying on, as it was looking a little grim weather wise I thought I would crack on and get both roof and bonnet completed with the exception of LSP, so basically roof corrected and refined in one fell swoop....but when it came to the bonnet....well I got half way across and down came the rain, only for a few minutes, which gave me this opportunity to take a 50-50 of the effects of a freshly polished clean area of paintwork and compare it with something not so....As you can see from the pic such a difference....

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A quick shot of the roof with Chemical guys WMF in the rain and the bonnet after machining, (when the sun came back out)....

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Oh and that isnt the end of the wet weather photography....

After all machine work was done it was finished off with DJ PH Pro, which I am lovin'....

The interior was also to be done on this was and looked like this before....


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A few water stains visible on both A Pillars, possibly due to blocked sunroof rain channels....

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When it was all done and dusted it all ended up like this....

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Now then, remember those wet weather pictures I mentioned....

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And the sun shone....for all of a couple of minutes....
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Thanks for taking the time to have a look and a read....

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Re: PhilT's RS4

Post by Rick_RS4 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:48 pm

great result, nice motor

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Re: PhilT's RS4

Post by Mr V10 » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:38 am

Awesome motor, love the B5.
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Re: PhilT's RS4

Post by Jules » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:09 am

Amazing work :thumbs:

It makes me miss mine a little
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Re: PhilT's RS4

Post by Reflect Russ » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:39 am

Thanks chaps....

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Post by sonny » Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:32 pm

Looking good! Did you find out if the sun roof was leaking?
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Re: PhilT's RS4

Post by PhilT » Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:55 pm

sonny wrote:Looking good! Did you find out if the sun roof was leaking?
It's had those stains from more or less new and in the 10 years of ownership they don't seem to have gotten any worse. Now they have been cleaned, they haven't come back. Maybe Hans and Fritz fitted a wet trim.... We'll never know :)
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Re: PhilT's RS4

Post by sonny » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:54 pm

PhilT wrote:
sonny wrote:Looking good! Did you find out if the sun roof was leaking?
It's had those stains from more or less new and in the 10 years of ownership they don't seem to have gotten any worse. Now they have been cleaned, they haven't come back. Maybe Hans and Fritz fitted a wet trim.... We'll never know :)

lol. glad to see its sorted now.
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