Paint restoration

Conanius · 3 May 2006 at 07:52

Riteo,

My girlfriends new car has a few issues with the paint (see attached)

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im trying to work out the best way to sort these, but in honesty, I havnt a clue. any suggestions? my plan was to give the car a good wash and a t-cut, and then look at doing the meguires 3 step on it to really clean up and protect the paint from further damage... what do you guys think?

There is also some rust on one of the doors, any ideas how best to treat this?

rust

Tesla · 3 May 2006 at 08:05

When I had my Ghia X (Radiant Red) it had a patch of dull paint work and also both wing mirrors were the pink colour like your gf's car roof.

I found a TCUT and then meguiars gold class wax worked a treat.

This was before I discovered a clay bar though so maybe that would work too but tcut and gold class definately sorted it for me. My car was always very shiny

MNuTz · 3 May 2006 at 10:37

yeah, just Tcut the whole car and then give it a good buff, it will come up lovely and red.

Sputnik II · 3 May 2006 at 10:58

Probably best to get it mopped really. Failing that buy some 3M perfect-it and a can of elbow grease.

Conanius · 3 May 2006 at 20:15

cheers for the responses so far guys, in reference to the rust (when i can get the pic to upload) how much care should we use avoiding it when doing the initial clean and polish? also, how easy is rust to treat usually, and does it require the use of spray cans, or can we t-cut across it?

MuvverRussia · 3 May 2006 at 21:59

rust is bare metal. So tcut won't work.

Wire brush off loose crap, apply jenolite/kurust/whatever to react with the rust to render it inactive and then paint.

Hardest bit is getting a good colour match on faded paint

Conanius · 4 May 2006 at 18:27

picture of the rust here