This was a very exciting project for me as a huge Audi fan, and specifically of the C5 platform. One may look at this Allroad and find it unremarkable save for the blue paint. But the blue paint is what makes this a very remarkable car. Audi did a special run of 10 Sprint Blue Allroads for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, these were the only 10 Audi produced. The German Ski Federation skiers used these vehicles during the Olympics. After the Olympics, the US ski team used them for the following ski season. After that, these cars were sold through Audi's US dealer network. Since their distribution, 2 are no longer in service, making this 1 of 8 cars.

This particular car has been modified and required some body work. The car had a 6-speed manual conversion, larger turbos, ECU tuning among other bits and bobs. The car was also hit in the rear driver quarter that required bodywork and paint. At that time, the owner chose to have the bumpers color matched. The fenders were previously polished to a gloss finish along with the roof.

The owner of this car does take good care of it, polishes it regularly and keeps it well protected. However, there were still some deeper defects and atrocious paint texture from the respray. The goal with this car was to remove a substantial amount of the defects and bring the respray texture back close to factory.

Process

Wheels cleaned with Ardex Proper and various brushes
Wheel wells and tires cleaned with Meguiars D108
Pre-foamed with Angelwax Fastfoam
2BM hand wash with Carpro Reset.
Mechanical Decontamination with clay mitt and ONR as lube.
Respray panels were wetsanded by hand with 2000 grit paper
Respray panels were texture corrected with Menzerna SC300 and Carpro Denim pads via rotary
Compounded with Boss 21, meguiars MF and Angelwax Ressurection
Polished with Boss21, rupes yellow pad and Angelwax Redemption, Rupes Nano and LHR75
Paint was protected with Angelwax TI-22
Wheels were hand polished with the Britemax metal polishing twins
Tires were dressed with carpro PERL
Glass cleaned with Blackfire Glass Cleaner
Trim was protected with Ultima Tire and Trim Guard