Paint restoring - recomendations

BostonB

We've a red 06 car, bright red thats starting to fade badly. Anyone any recommendations to somewhere that can bring it up, t-cut? and wax etc. I don't really have time or energy to do it myself.

ants09

Hi BostonB

First of all there is no quick fix soluction that i know off :mad:

you need to was the car first of all and let it dry
then you need to apply autogym paint renorvator with a cloth and apply it on each panel at a time
and finally wax your car

thats the only way i know off and it can take a good few hours so good luck

Buford T Justice

T-Cut is good for bringing back the paint, but its tough going and you'll need a lot of elbow grease to do it right.

Quick tip tho, when wiping off the tcut, use a warm rag, it makes it much easier.

Seperate

It depends how far you want to go with it. Any valeting place will give a car a spit polish and it'll probably look OK out of direct light.

We go a bit further and properly polish the paint. Here's a ten year old BMW which we restored a while ago;







More pics here - http://detailer.ie/portfolio/BMW-M5-E39.html

Another red car we've done recently;

Owen

ants09 wrote: »

you need to was the car first of all and let it dry then you need to apply autogym paint renorvator with a cloth and apply it on each panel at a time and finally wax your car thats the only way i know off and it can take a good few hours so good luck

Fingers McGee wrote: »

T-Cut is good for bringing back the paint, but its tough going and you'll need a lot of elbow grease to do it right.

The OP said he didn't want to do the work himself ...

Separate is pretty much the guy to bring the car to IMHO, I machine polished my 75 yesterday as it's going to a new home today at 3. Took me about 4 hours, and the finish was good. But I know if I gave it to Separate, he'd do a much better job than me. Someone who does this sort of thing for a living every day will know all the ins and outs.

listermint

Seperate wrote: »

Another red car we've done recently;

I want, give it to me. :eek:

Nonoperational

Machine polish. You genuinely won't believe the results.

fp1

BostonB wrote: »

We've a red 06 car, bright red thats starting to fade badly. Anyone any recommendations to somewhere that can bring it up, t-cut? and wax etc. I don't really have time or energy to do it myself.

Where you based?

BostonB

Thanks for the info. I'll have to think about it.