had a brief experience with a rotary some years ago : I was impressed.
Here’s some more pics I took today after a lengthy paint detail session. Wash, clay bar, polish and wax. Took about 5 hours. I was too tired by the end to detail the wheels and chrome. I’ll save them for another day.
I had washed it yesterday but we had just enough rain to put water spots all over. Here’s the before.
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And the main reason I wanted to polish it. Got scratched at work. >:(
http://www.codychambers.com/uploads/1/3/7/7/13777392/4940259_orig.jpg
Used pretty much all Griot’s garage products. First time using the buffer. Helped make things move a lot faster and very easy to use.
http://www.codychambers.com/uploads/1/3/7/7/13777392/900144_orig.jpg
And the results! Pretty happy with how it turned out.
http://www.codychambers.com/uploads/1/3/7/7/13777392/5710692_orig.jpg
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Very nice!
Griots stuff is nice, but as you expand, I’d look to “Menzerna” for buffer product. The meguairs stuff is also very good as well, but I feel the Menzerna can be worked longer and while is a little more expensive, I also use less product. So its definitely my preferred choice.
Also, just like mocrofiber towells, more pads are always better and I’ve been very impressed with lake county pads (specifically the ccs model). The meguairs pads do suck in comparison. And lake county makes some great towels as well.
Anyhow, great looking car and welcome aboard.
Thanks for the advice! I’ll probably give those brands a shot when I do my RX7. This was my first time polishing a car and using the buffer to wax so hopefully I’ll improve with more experience. I probably could have worked the polish longer but I didn’t want to do too much my first time around.
Amazing looking cars… including the FD.
Glad to see another Rx-7 to Audi convert around here. Welcome!
No, first time I’m seeing it actually. I just notice door blades more now because mine are rusting out.
Car looks great cleaned up, as all black cars do. But man is it annoying to keep clean lol
I noticed it when I was shopping for an RS4. There was one at Pfaff that was from Quebec. It had the rippled rusty sauce.
They were asking like $46,000 for it. It was 2008, Phantom Black and pretty loaded. It was also scratched up front, dented and bent right rear exhaust. I was seeing it before they got their hands on it to make it nice. It arrived literally that day, but that wasn’t good for them trying to sell it. They also had a Misano Red but it didn’t have premium package so I skipped it. It was mint though but had 100kms.
I sat down inside with them regarding the black one and said 'Listen…that’s a quebec car. Strike one. It’s in bad shape as well, strike 2. Basically the only way I will buy it is for $37,000.
I basically was lowballing the hell out of them. This was 3 years ago remember and it had only 40,000 kms on it (25,000 miles).
the guy came back and said ‘$39,000 and you have a deal’.
I told them if they fixed all the problems I would think about it. Then I asked to plug in my vagcom and there was a CEL. I scanned it for codes and there were like 11 ranging from a bad o2 to misfires to an RNSE problem. I passed (obviously lol).
This reminds me how fun shopping for an RS4 was. I travelled the province looking for a good one. Finally the one at Mississauga popped up but wiithout nav I was going to skip it. I left it off my list, then came back to it a couple of weeks later. I threw them a low ball offer (They were asking $55,000) and they said they’d think about it. Then we agreed a week later.
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/445043-2008-Audi-RS4-in-Avus-Silver
Saki, what’s a “loaded rs4”? I thought the only real add-on options ( for North American versions) was parking sensors. And I haven’t seen any b7 s4/rs4’s without the rsne I thought. You said one was “without nav” though. Just curious. Maybe my memory is really going bad!
With premium and ti is load3d
Premium was nav, seat memory, rain and light sensors, window shades, anda f3w other things and was 4000.
Mine doesnt have it. I bought 2010 rnse+ and added it.