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Audi RS4.......Stable car, not intended for horseback riding.....

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Old 04-02-2010, 12:54 PM
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Default Audi RS4.......Stable car, not intended for horseback riding.....

UBELIEVABLE.........Why not own a pick up truck?

So one of my customers who I had not seen in a while asked me to come by and detail his other vehicle. This Audi RS4 which I had never detailed has been used as my customers "Stable" vehicle over the California winter months. It basically has been used to go back and forth to the horse stables and for carrying the riding gear and the dog.

This vehicle was trashed, looks like the stables and this Audi got their share of the wet weather we had this winter. So after spending an exhausting amount of time prepping the vehicle, we had to thoroughly wash it twice... we finally had a very clean vehicle to start detailing.

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Interior shots before...

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Old 04-02-2010, 01:04 PM
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Jambs were also full of dust and dirt..

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Engine shots before....

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During shots....built up baked on brake dust from neglect and lack of care, ultimately damages wheels.

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After 2 washes with Stoner HP1 and ONR as a mix we did a very thorough prep, detailing begins...

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Some very contaminated paintwork as you can see from my clay!

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After first pass with D/A and M205

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Interior finished shots...

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Engine detailed shots...

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Old 04-02-2010, 01:23 PM
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Finish shots after D/A with NXT 2.0......

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Love this color when its detailed, you can see all the different mica (fleck) hues..........

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Old 04-02-2010, 08:24 PM
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ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE

Some people have more money than sense
To own a beautiful, awesomely fast car like that and treat it in such a way?? I'll never understand it as long as I live.

Stunning work as always there Dave and a good job on the rescue, cos thats what it looks like to me.
Kudos to you bud
 
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Old 04-02-2010, 08:59 PM
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David, you're details never cease to amaze me, I love the stories that go along with your project cars. I was looking at those pre-detail shots thinking 'there's no way he's going to get that clean!'.

Can you say that you charged a 'bit' more for this particular job, I mean come'on, you're client didn't even wipe off the paw marks off the rear seat.

I hope you're client saw this, and said out loud "this thing looks fantastic, I think I'll get another vehicle to take to the stable" It would kill me to see it again next spring when he calls you for a repeat in the same, or worse condition. It'd break my heart.

Love the write up dave!
 
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He shouldn't be allowed to own that RS, much less drive it. What a sin. Nice clean up.
 
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Great job Dave. Always interesting to see you in action. Never really understood the attitude of, 'it doesn't matter, I'll just pay someone to sort it out', still keeps you out of mischief;-)

All the best,
 
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Old 04-03-2010, 04:55 AM
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It's really hard to believe that this is very dead same vehicle .That was a detailing with mammoth results what a decent job
 
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wow great job, doesnt even look like the same car. well done dave, thanks for posting.
 
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wow!! nice work on that one
 
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Are you sure you didn't buy them a replacement car? That thing is just spotless.
 
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Old 07-07-2010, 03:13 AM
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Originally Posted by wanstallaw
wow!! nice work on that one
Why thank you very much, I appreciate the good words on my work!

Originally Posted by TopHatChef
Are you sure you didn't buy them a replacement car? That thing is just spotless.
You would of thought so....the owner of this vehicle finally decided to by a Ford F350 as his stable vehicle, thank for the compliment!
 
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