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[Lino]

Hi guys, Must say that you guys do a FANTASTIC job, not sure if I will ever get my car as good as some of the cars here. Got the car about 8 yrs now and and up to now been cleaning the car wrong. So ya car pretty bad.
Wanna know do you get to a stage were you basically just say ‘look nothing can be done to fix the paint work’

[calypso]

Yeah certainly there is a point where paint is unrepairable, thats when resprays come in.

[springbok]

But, you would be amazed what a little (or a lot) of TLC can do to transform the look of your ride.

[Rich]

Welcome to forum ! Like Springbok say's, a little TLC makes a huge diff!!

[Carn]

Welcome Lino

I think once you hit clear coat failure or failure of the surface coating for single stage paints then you pretty much out of luck. That being said however, you can still polish the areas that are free from peeling paint

[Lino]

thanx for the warm welcome guys
@Carn-you can still polish the areas that are free from peeling paint .. think i'm at that piont LOL..

[dood786]

Welcome to forum

[springbok]

(09-01-2010 04:29 PM)Lino Wrote:  @Carn-you can still polish the areas that are free from peeling paint ..

Unfortunately you CAN polish them but you will find they very soon fade back to dull. It's not like single stage paint. It's two stage without the clearcoat so it's not designed to be exposed to the elements. No amount of polishing and waxing will help.

[Carn]

As Springbok mentioned it can be painted. If there is still clear coat in some places it will retain it's shine providing you look after it accordingly. If only the exposed base coat remains it will fade again as it has no UV protection

[calypso]

Why dont you show us a pic of the paint in question.