Street Dreams
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Last month I detailed two of Germany's newest super coupes, the new C63 AMG Black Series Mercedes and a 2013 Audi RS5.
Nice to finally have the RS5 in the states! Both cars were poorly prepped by the dealer and had some factory finishing issues which needed to be corrected. The goal for both vehicles was a proper new car preparation and 100% level paint correction to remove all the defects and restore maximum gloss and clarity.
First, C63 Black Series:
Prep consisted of 2 bucket wash, Iron Cut, Sonax wheel cleaner and the Nanoskin autoscrub clay disc.
The overall finish of the Mercedes, as with most Mercedes was farily good. There are two main reasons for this: one is Mercedes very hard ceramic clear coats (more resistant to wash marring) and the other is high quality finishing from the factory. The Black Series may be considered and exotic auto but it is still very much a Mercedes Benz and you'll notice very few if any Mercedes driving around with factory installed holograms or sanding marks, on the Ferrari's, Astons and Lambo's however these defects come standard on every new model :shakehead:
Not too much factory defect and luckily just some marring from the dealer prep
Lower carbon fiber spoiler corrected first with the Flex rotary and an orange cutting pad with Menzerna Super intensive polish @ 1200-1500rpm
Front fender some light holograms and light RIDS shown under the LED light, reasons to avoid a dealer prep at all costs
After correction
Carbon fiber splitters corrected with rotary as well..
Before
During
After
After final polishing all the other areas were handled as needed. Cleaning the matte finish wheels here using Swissvax Opaque pre cleaner..
Engine detailed and all plastics dressed with 303 protectant
All finished, only took 18hours to get it perfect!
Some sun shots..
LSP of choice was Wolf's Bodywrap (Hard Body had not come in yet) but the BW still looked the business (you Chris Harris fans will appreciate such a remark)
After the sun went down the finish still looked incredible, the metallic flake may not be popping here like it was in sunlight but the depth and clarity remains fantastic..
Last shot of the evening..
Nice to finally have the RS5 in the states! Both cars were poorly prepped by the dealer and had some factory finishing issues which needed to be corrected. The goal for both vehicles was a proper new car preparation and 100% level paint correction to remove all the defects and restore maximum gloss and clarity.
First, C63 Black Series:
Prep consisted of 2 bucket wash, Iron Cut, Sonax wheel cleaner and the Nanoskin autoscrub clay disc.
The overall finish of the Mercedes, as with most Mercedes was farily good. There are two main reasons for this: one is Mercedes very hard ceramic clear coats (more resistant to wash marring) and the other is high quality finishing from the factory. The Black Series may be considered and exotic auto but it is still very much a Mercedes Benz and you'll notice very few if any Mercedes driving around with factory installed holograms or sanding marks, on the Ferrari's, Astons and Lambo's however these defects come standard on every new model :shakehead:
Not too much factory defect and luckily just some marring from the dealer prep
Lower carbon fiber spoiler corrected first with the Flex rotary and an orange cutting pad with Menzerna Super intensive polish @ 1200-1500rpm
Front fender some light holograms and light RIDS shown under the LED light, reasons to avoid a dealer prep at all costs
After correction
Carbon fiber splitters corrected with rotary as well..
Before
During
After
After final polishing all the other areas were handled as needed. Cleaning the matte finish wheels here using Swissvax Opaque pre cleaner..
Engine detailed and all plastics dressed with 303 protectant
All finished, only took 18hours to get it perfect!
Some sun shots..
LSP of choice was Wolf's Bodywrap (Hard Body had not come in yet) but the BW still looked the business (you Chris Harris fans will appreciate such a remark)
After the sun went down the finish still looked incredible, the metallic flake may not be popping here like it was in sunlight but the depth and clarity remains fantastic..
Last shot of the evening..
