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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2009, 07:07:05 pm »
Awesome job Jay , I now realise why Tom was going nowhere near it with a dirty rag on Sun @ Santa Pod    :scared: :grin:
In terms of lacquer thickness etc , how much is generally taken off?




Well in this case, i probably took up to 8-10 microns off toms in case, based upon toms insistence on a near 100% job. Add that to how deep the scratches were, that's more than i like to take off.

ordinarily id take off 3-5 for a near 100% job.

You do get to a point where you HAVE to think...right, 95% of the marks are gone, you will hardly see the rest under normal conditions. the car will look 300% better. To get the last 5% of the defects out, you have to remove the same amount again from the clearcoat. ie ther than 3-5 microns, you looking at 8-10.

so based on a normal coat of 120 microns (ish) thats about 4% of the paint removed on a normal detail

Its all to do with that the customer wants. tom was insistant he wanted a 20 hour job, rather than the usual 12-15 hours


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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2009, 07:09:25 pm »
Looks very good, just a shame some of them scratches refused to budge.  

Some of the pics show his reg ;)

yep, it is a shame, i think it is a case of new paint being "blown in" over some defects that already exist.

the marks were not changing at all even if i took 2 microns off. even the lighter ones.

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2009, 07:10:21 pm »
Top job again jay :happy2:.
I cant wait to get the next mods out of the way so that i can treat my car to a full detail :happy2:

thanks a lot luca!


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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2009, 07:10:41 pm »
Very very good work there. 

Great results.

 :happy2: :happy2:

thanks mate! ;)

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2009, 07:11:05 pm »
Sh1t hot job there mate

thank you! :)   :laugh:

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2009, 07:11:23 pm »


VERY impressive mate  :happy2:

Looks stunning!

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2009, 07:13:18 pm »
Hugely impressive!!!!  :smiley: :smiley:
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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2009, 07:15:36 pm »
nice 1 Jay :happy2:, will be bringing mine back for a top-up in the summer :smiley:

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2009, 07:18:18 pm »
Holy sh*t. You had your work cut out there Jay. I think Tom is a lucky man having you as his best buddy.  :drinking:

+1. That's a f00k load of correction needed.

Did Tom know about the respray before he bought it?

Fantastic finish.

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2009, 07:20:45 pm »
no he didnt know about the re-spray. other than the overspray, it seems to be quite a good job! ;)

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2009, 07:21:09 pm »
nice 1 Jay :happy2:, will be bringing mine back for a top-up in the summer :smiley:

thanks gaz!  :drinking:

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2009, 07:45:34 pm »
WOW!! What can I say?

The car really does stand out from the crowd now, it looks so RED

I never really saw how bad it looked under the lights but looking at them pictures it really was  :sick: :sick: :sick:

Great turnaround matey, im over the moon with it  :jumpmove: :jumpmove: :jumpmove:

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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2009, 07:54:06 pm »
Holy sh*t. You had your work cut out there Jay. I think Tom is a lucky man having you as his best buddy.  :drinking:

Did Tom know about the respray before he bought it?


I didn't Stealth  :ashamed:

I had the car fully HPI checked and it came out perfect so cant see a reason why it would need one  :surprised:

Im not sure why it would need one, I aint gonna worry about it now, my paint is in better condition than when the car was bought new  :drinking:
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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2009, 08:05:03 pm »
Awesome !!

I love it! Great correction work  :happy2:
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Re: Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2009, 08:35:47 pm »
thanks guys! and tom for your kind words! hehe