This Weekends Detail - RS4 Avant - Phantom Black (MSLRS4's)

[steve_70]

Hi all,

so this weekend I been mostly detailing RS4 Avants .... there as common as muck round here (spot mine sneaking in the pics )

Here is MSLRS4's (Mark) a fellow RS246 member who lives two minutes away from me, so nice and local, used as a daily driver so planned to give it a clean-up, a bit of correction and then protection.

Process & Products in a nutshell....

* All shuts, boot bonnet, doors cleaned with APC through sprayer, agitated with envy erushes
* Foam with AB Magifoam - Nilfisk Washer / AB Foam Lance
* Whilst foam dwells - clean badges, trim, grills, window rubbers with envy erushes using the foam, wheels arches with Vikan long handle brush
* Rinsed
* Wheels finished off with Espuma Revolution, tardis, IronX
* Badges, trim, handles, rubbers, grills finished off with G101 and envy brushes
* All Shuts wiped down with ONR qd
* Wash with ONR and ONR in sprayer as qd/ drying aid, wipe down with Blue Fluffy Eurow towels
* Body decomtaminated with IronX, Tardis, yellow poly clay with ONR lube
* Wheels, all shuts, chrome trim, glass cleaned/ polished and sealed with Jeffs Acryllic Prime Strong. Wheels covered in Colinite 845 wax.
* Tyres dressed with Espuma RD50
* Arches dressed with CG Bare Bones
* Exhausts cleaned, polished, sealed with Britemax Polish/ Sealant
* All Black Trim dressed with VP Dionysus Trim Glitz (love this product)
* interior vacumed and brushed with various detail and stiff brushes; Cleaned with G101 and dressed with Espuma Dasheen; interior glass Espuma Green Glass Cleaner; Carpets and matts with Esouma Farbricare; Leather cleaned and dressed with Dr Leather Wipes; Pedals cleaned with G101 and detail brushes. Espuma Fresh fragance used as de-oderiser.
* Engine bay - G101 and 303 Aerospace protectant.


So, on with the pictures....

Looks like it has a Matt Wrap in these, phantom black lurking beneath












Mine mucsling in on shot :p





















I just love Magifoam at the moment:thumb: ...wanting to give Espuma Activo a go when it runs out.



























So thats where my EZ brush whent



oh well, I think have lost that now as he is guarding it as new favourite toy
















Its amazing how much Jeffs still sucks out of the wheels when polishing with an MF pad, see the state of pad compared to fresh one.













Realised I had goosed some of these pics, as blurry, most of the rest have tuned out really poor ...lots of the afters had to delete as just too bad so only have a few :wall: The photos dont do the finish justice and it had started to spot with rain, anyway, hope you get the idea. Will improve camera work for next time and maybe have sosmevody else take my photos













Another one with mine sneaking in




Thanks all for looking

[CRSRS]

Brilliant Job Steve, can I ask where do you get the products from? Cleaned mine at w/e(avus avant with optics) and would like to do better job. Without going the whole hog what should I buy as a minimum?
Cheers Col

[MSLRS5]

Hi Steve,

Just wanted to thank-you again for the excellent work. It's a shame that the photos can't do justice to the beautifull finish that you achieved. A particularly difficult job because of the weather but still looked stunning when I came to collect it
As discussed I'll pop back in a couple of weeks for the "new wax"....already though with all that dirt missing the car feels much quicker than normal.
Great Job.

Cheers-Mark

[Steve_C]

Looks like you're getting plenty of business, Steve
Love the photo of the two Avants next to each other!

[andre3k]

Any chance you can do a brief write-up of the engine bay detail.

What if anything did you cover/protect? Pressure washer or water under gravity? Engine on immediately after the wash or not?

Ta bud

[PJC]

Great job, black always looks fantastic when spotlessly clean.

How long did it take Steve?

[daytonamc]

Good work Steve, wheels are spot on.

[PJC]

Looks hard work but well worth the effort.

Well done mate.