I started by taping off the joints. I knew that nothing but orange pads on the Cyclo and Extreme Cut was in order to start with. I have heard that Audi clearcoat was very hard and I believe it now. I thought the Extreme Cut would tackle the scratches as aggressively as it did on my truck, but was dismayed to find this paint was much harder on this car. Some of these would take nothing less than sanding with 2000 grit to start with. I've never wet sanded paint before but I had no choice. I just went REEEAAAALLLL slow......





These two were particularly bad:




I figured as long as the water wasn't turning black I was still OK!



After sanding and before I started polishing.








I did the hood and front driver fender with the Extreme/ogange pad combo and was surprised to see after an IPA wipedown that many didn't come out. Here's a few 50/50 shots.





They were definitely better, but only by about 50%. I decided at this point that for what he was giving me to do the job my goal was to win the battle with this car, but I wasn't going to win the war. It would have taken a rotary and wool pads to get this car right. I just don't think the Cyclo had the guts to get it done inside of it being a 20 hour job. Fine by me, I'm never doing a car like this again unless I get paid MUCH more to do it. The Extreme cut works great but due to the hardness of the clear it took awhile. For most of the panels I decided to first use a much more aggressive compound I had from Safety-Kleen by hand and PUSH to get some of these out. It was basically liquid sandpaper and very abrasive, but it was all I had that was stronger than Extreme Cut.

Here's what the fenders looked like with a hand application of the SK cutting compound:



Before, you can see the scratches:



After:



Here's the hood after rubbing on some of the deeper scratches out. Getting rid of them CREATED them....Oh boy.....



After doing that to the hood I decided to call it a day. I was up at 6 that day, started this at 7:30pm, and I was starting to make dumb decisions.

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