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Detailer’s Domain: Audi Q5 – Winter Prep with a twist – Tar Removal

Posted by Administrator on 12/20/2011 to Our Details
Last week I received a call from a customer regarding some tar/paint on his wife’s new Audi Q5. I didn’t really know what to expect.
When they drove by to get a quote I realized this was going to take some time to clean up.

Well it definitely took some time.

Take a look.

This includes:

– Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
– Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
– Wheel wells were cleaned up
– Pre Washed with W99
– Decon
– Wash down and rinsed
– Door jambs were cleaned up
– Clayed
– Dried
– Tires dressed
– Last Step – 1Z einszett Glanz
– Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
– Rubber and Plastics Treated
– Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
– Exhaust tips cleaned
– Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed – Wolf’s Glass Guard

Interior
– Vac
– Remove denim transfer on the seats
– Clean leather/Condition leather
– Glass

Tar/Paint Removal
– Meg’s Body Solvent
– Stoner’s Tarminator
– 3M Adhesive Remover

Before shots –
Road tar and paint on the driver’s side fender, doors, bumpers, side skirts, wheel well covers (complete left side)
We had to use a combination of Meg’s Body Solvent, Stoner’s Tarminator, and 3M Adhesive Remover. (16 oz of Body Solvent, 1 Can of Tarminator, 3 cans of 3M Adhesive Remover)
Here some shots of what we were working with.




































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