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Audi Q3, Carpro Essence Polish



Mr R.

ClioSport Club Member
  A special one.
My friend who owns the Porsche asked me to give his wife's Audi Q3 a wash and polish, they have owned the car form new and it has only had the local hand car wash treatment. Saturday i headed over to Kent to give it a wash and assess the damage of the paint. (i had already had a look when doing John's Porsche)
After chatting to @Scrooge about a one stage polish he said about CarPro Essence should do the trick and get the paint to where it needs to be. I wasn't after 100% correction but bringing the paint back to life was what she wanted.
I bought the CarProP orange and white pads which are bloody great and knew that they would complement the polish. They sure did!!

The Q3 wasn't in a bad state considering she had driven down a few bushes on the passenger side (drives through country lanes when taking the dog out) The car was covered in tar even the wheels, so much that i used half a bottle of CarPro Tar X. It still took a good few hits to get it all off and by the looks of it the tar had been on there for quite sometime. 😞

This was the worse side.

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Audi Q3 Clean 006 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

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Audi Q3 Clean 005 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

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Audi Q3 Clean 050 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Wheels cleaned with woolies and EZ brushes.

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Audi Q3 Clean 023 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Tar X doing its thing.

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Audi Q3 Clean 008 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

All of the wheel arches where covered in mud, G101 and the jet wash sorted these out. :smile:

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Audi Q3 Clean 009 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Exhaust tips where polished with Britemax easy cut. They came up looking like new. :cool:

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Audi Q3 Clean 004 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Sorry for the lack of finished pictures, it rained quite a bit while i was trying to get the car dry for polishing so i was in a bit of a rush to get it finished. 😞😞

Wheels and arches cleaned.

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Audi Q3 Clean 016 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Car was then rinsed off with the hose pipe, snow foamed with Valet Pro PH neutral, jet washed off, snow foamed again and washed 2BM.
Once washed it was jet washed off, Carpro iron X - Tar X and then clayed with Bilt Hamber.

I used 2 wash mitts, the red mitt washed the lower part of the car and the blue is for the upper parts.

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Audi Q3 Clean 028 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

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Audi Q3 Clean 034 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

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Audi Q3 Clean 039 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Wash time.

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Audi Q3 Clean 046 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

The fall out wasn't to bad and it was clean when i was claying it, just so bloody much tar. I hope the next car isn't as bad.

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Audi Q3 Clean 047 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

I got the car dried and just as i finished the rain came down, had to wait a while which is why i started to run out of time. Got it dried again and managed to polish the mirror and the wing before it rained again.

Ready for polishing.

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Audi Q3 Clean 041 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

This it what i used along with my Rupes rotary.

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Audi Q3 Clean 056 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Wing polished and the scratches removed, you can even see the flake start to pop along the top of the wing.:cool:

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Audi Q3 Clean 058 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

And then the rain came down, great beading though just from a polish. :up:

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Audi Q3 Clean 060 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

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Audi Q3 Clean 062 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

The side of the car polished, at this point the car had to be moved into the garage so this is the only outside picture i managed to take. Gutted tbh as it was looking great.

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Audi Q3 Clean 055 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

Once the car was in the garage i polished the bonnet and the drivers side of the car which was no where near as in bad condition as the passengers side.

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Audi Q3 Clean 065 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

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Audi Q3 Clean 067 by Scott Raven, on Flickr

My friend and his wife are very happy with the results and at some point ill be going back to polish the Porsche, this Saturday i have another Q3 to do and i hope this one isnt covered in as much tar and that i am able to get a lot of before and after pictures. :smile:
 

Mr R.

ClioSport Club Member
  A special one.
What did you think to the carpro orange pad @Phase1sr ? Used essence a few times with the white gloss it pad and it finishes really well
It's a really nice quality pad mate, I had to use the small hex pad as CP don't sell a small orange pad. Shame really as they do sell the small white pads.

The orange pad corrected everything I wanted it to with a couple of passes. [emoji106]

The Q3 I'm doing this weekend I very tempted to use Essence again but only using the white pad, I was going to use AF Tripple but Essence is so dam good. [emoji1]
 

Mr R.

ClioSport Club Member
  A special one.
Awful.






Obviously not lol. Looks great. Have you started a detailing sideline company up :)
Haha.

Thanks mate. [emoji2]

No not really, doing the Porsche has lead to the others that are waiting. My friend just knows fussy people with nice cars.

I have another Q3 to do for a chap (its his wife's car) on Saturday and the following weekend I have his car to do.

Once I have done them I have another 3 cars to do. All very nice cars from wealthy owners. [emoji41]
 

Amos91

Honorary Member
ClioSport Club Member
All these Essence posts really makes me want to crack open the bottle I've had since Christmas. Just a few more weeks and I'll go over the 182 with it, can't wait!

Love the garage light shots.
 

Darren S

ClioSport Club Member
Hopefully after all that effort, the owner will pull away from the bushes and branches that caused havoc on the passenger side.

You just know that won't happen.... :p
 

Mr R.

ClioSport Club Member
  A special one.
Nice work as usual Scott! :cool:
Thank you mate. [emoji106]

Hopefully after all that effort, the owner will pull away from the bushes and branches that caused havoc on the passenger side.

You just know that won't happen.... [emoji14]
I have told her that there is only so much clear coat on the car, she has promised to not take the short cut through the lane to the woods when taking the dog out. [emoji2]

We shall see. [emoji23]
 


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