New Q7 finally at home: Glacier w/ black optics, Stek / Ceramic Pro, debadged, etc.
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New Q7 finally at home: Glacier w/ black optics, Stek / Ceramic Pro, debadged, etc.
Some of you may recall my thread of me purchasing a 2018 with 9k miles on it in Chicago (I live in Seattle) about 6 weeks ago. Picked it up on our yearly vacation to visit family in Wisconsin, and drove it back this past week with my eldest (15). 2,200 miles, 32 driving hours, done in 2.5 days while stopping at Badlands, Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone (no, no extended stays at any one of them ). Must've killed a few thousand bugs which APC Auto Spa had the joy of cleaning off when I dropped it off with them the following day to do full front end Stek film, and Ceramic Pro Gold on the rest of the car and wheels. Turned out awesome, below pics taken in their parking lot when I picked it up. She made the drive perfectly, love the adaptive cruise, though I can confirm it's not possible to set it at anything higher than 95 mph
Aside from getting the black rings front and back, debadging the back, and swapping out the front yellow side markers with matching painted ones (all completed already) only other plans are to alter the interior trim (stay tuned for more details there) and have my Audi tech lower it. We'll see what happens from there.
Loving it so far!
Aside from getting the black rings front and back, debadging the back, and swapping out the front yellow side markers with matching painted ones (all completed already) only other plans are to alter the interior trim (stay tuned for more details there) and have my Audi tech lower it. We'll see what happens from there.
Loving it so far!
Last edited by S4Per; 08-19-2018 at 11:14 AM.
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Originally Posted by S4Per
Some of you may recall my thread of me purchasing a 2018 with 9k miles on it in Chicago (I live in Seattle) about 6 weeks ago. Picked it up on our yearly vacation to visit family in Wisconsin, and drove it back this past week with my eldest (15). 2,200 miles, 32 driving hours, done in 2.5 days while stopping at Badlands, Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone (no, no extended stays at any one of them ). Must've killed a few thousand bugs which APC Auto Spa had the joy of cleaning off when I dropped it off with them the following day to do full front end Stek film, and Ceramic Pro Gold on the rest of the car and wheels. Turned out awesome, below pics taken in their parking lot when I picked it up. She made the drive perfectly, love the adaptive cruise, though I can confirm it's not possible to set it at anything higher than 95 mph
Aside from getting the black rings front and back, debadging the back, and swapping out the front yellow side markers with matching painted ones (all completed already) only other plans are to alter the interior trim (stay tuned for more details there) and have my Audi tech lower it. We'll see what happens from there.
Loving it so far!
Aside from getting the black rings front and back, debadging the back, and swapping out the front yellow side markers with matching painted ones (all completed already) only other plans are to alter the interior trim (stay tuned for more details there) and have my Audi tech lower it. We'll see what happens from there.
Loving it so far!
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Thanks!
Thanks! I used my Canon 5D Mark III with my 70-200 2.8 IS II on these. I wouldn't say I did a ton of processing on them, though the B&W ones had more than the full color ones. I like to play around with clarity a bit in Lightroom and overall contrast. I did use Photoshop on a couple but only to remove the rear license plate, and the temp window sticker in the back. Fun stuff!
Thanks for the car compliment, but that's not me on sweedespeed (I've never visited that site).
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Originally Posted by Allroading17
I saw your post on sweedespeed that you deleted. I think this is an absolutely beautiful car compared to the XC90. Not to mention faster 😉
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Looks great! Love the white markers. I was gonna do the same but it looked like the bumper had to come off to get them out and have them painted, so I just wrapped ours black. How did you do it?
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Thanks again!
Yup, the bumper has to come off. Since I bought it 4 weeks prior to pick-up, I had TAG send the parts direct to the dealer and had them put them on.
Yup, the bumper has to come off. Since I bought it 4 weeks prior to pick-up, I had TAG send the parts direct to the dealer and had them put them on.