Audi S3 — deep metallic blue bonnet refinish
A full bonnet refinish in Audi's deep metallic blue — one of the colours that shows every flaw in prep and every mismatch in colour. Under the booth lights you can't find the join.
- Vehicle
- Audi S3
- Type of job
- Panel refinish
- Work carried out
- Bonnet refinished in factory metallic blue
- Where
- Our booth on Europa Park, Grimsby
The starting point
An S3 bonnet that needed refinishing. On a big, flat, dark metallic panel like this the prep has to be perfect: any ripple in the primer shows straight through the gloss.
The process
- Bonnet stripped back, repaired where needed and primed, then guide-coated and blocked completely flat.
- Colour mixed to the factory code and checked against the wings under the lamps and in daylight.
- Base and clear applied in the booth and baked, then the edges blended so the bonnet reads as one with the wings.
- Flatted and machine-polished to a mirror finish.
The result
The finished bonnet under the booth lights, and the car back alongside another Audi we'd finished that week. This is what 'colour-matched' is supposed to mean.
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