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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 10:44 PM
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Today I detailed my roommates 2003 Audi A4. The car has 45k miles and the paint is in terrible shape. Swirls, scratches, it was a project. The car is pretty sweet tho. It gets tons of looks and used to push well into the 300's to the wheels with quattro, it was quick. He deceided to de-mod it cause he was DD it to school, but his setup ran 12's. Anyways here are the pics.

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2 passes with 83
Zaino ZFX and Z5

Before (none from a distance)



A few hours after so some dust was able to settle on it but oh well








All the cars together






Camaros in the stable

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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 04:49 AM
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awesome detail, but the bottom of that car looks completly stupid, why in the hell wouldn't they of painted that place trim?
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 10:57 AM
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ya believe it or not its an option. he wanted to do it when his car was modded but after 10g's or so he is over putting money into the car.
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Old Aug 16, 2007 | 12:08 PM
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holy crap. i have a friend here in memphis that has that same exact car. even down to the rims, tint, and color. looking at that car is like lookin at a mirror image of my buddys car. nice job btw.
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Old Aug 17, 2007 | 10:37 AM
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Damn that thing has some orange peel!

good work
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Old Aug 17, 2007 | 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Camaro Ryder KV
awesome detail, but the bottom of that car looks completly stupid, why in the hell wouldn't they of painted that place trim?
I believe that's for rainy/snowy climates, so you don't end up with corrosion showing through on your exterior body panels. Also looks better if/when you have salty water on it or rocks/particles that get thrown up.

To restore unpainted plastic like that, use a product like Mothers Back to Black. I use it on my wipers+arms, textured plastic at the bottom of the windshield, misc. rubber/side moulding, and side vent covers.

On this Audi, it looks like you could use Back to Black on the bottom plastic trim and the plastic/rubber surrounding the windows.
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Old Aug 17, 2007 | 07:07 PM
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300hp from an A4? sweet christ what motor?
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Old Aug 18, 2007 | 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ipdking711
300hp from an A4? sweet christ what motor?

Why is that hard to belive?
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Originally Posted by ZexGX
I believe that's for rainy/snowy climates, so you don't end up with corrosion showing through on your exterior body panels. Also looks better if/when you have salty water on it or rocks/particles that get thrown up.

To restore unpainted plastic like that, use a product like Mothers Back to Black. I use it on my wipers+arms, textured plastic at the bottom of the windshield, misc. rubber/side moulding, and side vent covers.

On this Audi, it looks like you could use Back to Black on the bottom plastic trim and the plastic/rubber surrounding the windows.
In my opinion. I wouldn't recommend Black to Black to anyone, for any reason.

Probably the single worst detailing product on the market ..

Try Aerospace 303, Vinylex, Meg's #40, or any number of others .. b2b will turn your plastic white over time ..
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Old Aug 18, 2007 | 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Brian2006
Damn that thing has some orange peel!

good work
you read my mind ..


Nice work 98camaro1le
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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ya he had a big garrett turbo, software, and a bunch of other **** until his tranny took a **** and he demodded. It was pretty fast, never raced him unfortunately but it really opened my eyes to FI and how much i like a loud BOV
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Old Aug 20, 2007 | 11:52 AM
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Good job. I really need to detail my car, too bad I dont have a PC.
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Old Aug 20, 2007 | 03:48 PM
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What do you use on the Camaro? I tried Meguiars #80 on mine and it still did not look any better. I have #83, but have not tried it yet. I was going to use #83 then go over it with #80. Then wax with NXT. Clay bad did wonderso n the paint.
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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 05:02 PM
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when i did mine i did 1 pass with the 83 then one with the 80. I would say do 2 with the 83 then some zaino, thats what i did on the audi and it turned out better than when i did the camaro. i am going to do my boxster next with 2 passes with the 83 this week
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