2 hours sounds about right — I do not have a foam cannon, I just use the “2 bucket method” and a regular garden hose. Washing the S5 versus my last car (RSX) takes about half the time and I think it’s the ceramic coating on the S5. I don’t find that I have to wash any particular area more than another, where the RSX required a lot of attention on the whole lower body to get the “road dirt” off.

I feel the Ceramic was a great investment for my car.

As always YMMV.

— John

I do use ONR, but still rinse my car if the weather permits. The Detailer who applied my Ceramic strongly recommends ONR (after initially hating it as it doesn’t foam like “normal” car wash solutions) to wash the Ceramic.

— John

I did a quick hand wash yesterday at lunch, spray down, clean rims, wash, rinse, squeege and towel dry all in about 15 minutes. It use to take me about 45 minutes to do a quick wash with my SUV. These small cars are great, easy to wash and easy to clean off snow.

I spent 4.5 hours yesterday doing a full detail and wax on my car. I have ceramic as well, but it hasn’t really wow’d me like it has others. I started by finishing off the car, one pass with a foam cannon, rinse, repeat foam cannon and use the two bucket method to get any dirt off the car. I then dried off the car with a waffle towel, where needed.

Next, I used a butter wax and waxed/buffed the whole car, including windows and then turned to detailing my wheels and chrome tips. Finally, I cleaned the inside glass, treated all the leather and vinyl interior parts and exterior vinyl.

I don’t do this level of detail very often, but I had time and it was nice outside yesterday. Plus I wanted to see what a butter wax would look like on top of ceramic. It looks good! The car has a very deep and sick looking shine to it. I’m a fan and it didn’t take too much extra time.

A normal hand wash and exterior detailing takes me about 2-2.5 hours.

It takes me about 2 hours to do it right

My Detailer used Jade Quartz — which is supposed to be good for 4 or 5 years — on the entire car, wheels & glass. I do not necessarily think it will last that long but I always take my cars back to the Detailer twice a year for a really “deep detail” as I have found it’s a worthy investment to me, someone who keeps their cars for a LONG time.

As this is my first German Car in 36 years I was not expecting all the brake dust the Audi generates, which is why I had the Detailer take the wheels off to coat them — front & back — and it makes a tremendous difference when washing the car. When my 18” wheels came in back in January, I had him treat those wheels with the same product. For me it is so worth the price he charged me.

— John