A Tale of Twin Audi S5`s, Corrected and Coated with Cquartz Finest...Greg Gellas Signature Detailing

[Greg Gellas]

In December I corrected and coated this S5. S5 Corrected and coated with Cquartz finest by Greg Gellas Signature Detailing

Unfortunately Finest wasn`t able to protect the car from this damage. Luckily the owner was uninjured.





The car was totaled by insurance. The owner was devastated, that car was his baby. Luckily for him he was able to located the EXACT same car, every option, even the color was the same.

So I begin again on Scott`s S5. I began with a full wash, iron-x, and a clay. I then went around and documented any paint damage.



Let`s check out some paint damage.









Some deeper RIDS throughout the paint.





I began with M105 on a MF pad to level, I then followed up with M205 on a Rupes white pad. I tried a couple of combinations, but found this setup to knock out all the swirls and almost all the RIDS. You can see the correction I was able to get from these 50/50`s.







Every painted surface is just as important as the next.



After correction I washed to remove any oils left from correction, [font=`helvetica neue`, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I followed that up with an eraser wipe down and then it got 2 coats of Cquartz Finest. Below you can see I am waiting for Finest to flash before leveling. [/font]



I coated the wheels with Cquartz Dlux. Wear a respirator! I put about 20ml in my airbrush bottle and sprayed away. I did get some drips, but that wasn`t an issue since I had to level the wheels anyway. By spraying I was able to get the barrels coated without having to remove the wheels.



Adhesive from the window sticker, that has to go, can`t miss the little things



Every Cquartz Finest kit comes with a sticker, that corresponds with its warranty card.



Let check out the results.



















As always, thanks for reading! Greg Gellas SignatureDetailing.com

[Ronkh]

That`s one way of getting the water pump replaced.....

[Todd@RUPES]

Ouch. Glad to see it was repaired (owner unhurt) you got to work your magic on it again. Looks great.

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful work Greg....I "so" love those cars.

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Awesome Work Greg!!

[Evan.J]

Great Job Greg!

[95formulalt1]

Great work. Love the color

[Ronkh]

interested in knowing how they prepped car for paint and how (if any) the left over made overspray removal coating

[Greg Gellas]

interested in knowing how they prepped car for paint and how (if any) the left over made overspray removal coating

This is a new one, they totaled the first one. He found the SAME exact car with the same options.

[SKIM_NYC]

Yep, true story.

I remember when I got the previous car, my dealer mentioned to me that 2 identical ones were coming over on the boat. Lucky for me, the other dealer that got this car didn`t sell it and after some string pulling I was able to get it.

Credit once again goes to Greg for pulling off a great job. Maybe its just me, but I think this 1 finished a degree better than the last one. A link to the last write up is in the first post...

Thanks also to Corey from CarPro for his help as well.

Scott

[radarryan]

Wow, Greg, sorry I`m just now seeing this, and what a fantastic job this is! Lucky for the owner he knows you, because now from the outside you can`t distinguish between the two! I`m glad that you wear a respirator when spraying or applying the DLux, and it should be a lesson to everyone to wear proper PPE when dealing with Amy potentially harmful product or chemical. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to the next one!

[Merlin]

What an interesting story and way kewl to "kick it up a notch" on the second one.

Excellent work!

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Merlin

[Todd@RUPES]

Yep, true story.

I remember when I got the previous car, my dealer mentioned to me that 2 identical ones were coming over on the boat. Lucky for me, the other dealer that got this car didn`t sell it and after some string pulling I was able to get it.

Credit once again goes to Greg for pulling off a great job. Maybe its just me, but I think this 1 finished a degree better than the last one. A link to the last write up is in the first post...

Thanks also to Corey from CarPro for his help as well.

Scott

Very cool!

[Woob]

Wonderful! Is that the HF buffer or Rupes 1inch? Wondering what setup.