Great stuff Rebecca! It does look a bit orange-peely, but I can also confirm that the lapiz blue factory paint is like that too.
Did you have to get the tyre changed too? That's a new tyre anyway by the looks of it.
Thanks Joe. It does look on the orange peely side but actually not much more so than usual. Sometimes the light can exaggerate it and I think that's our of these pics but I had to rush to take a few snaps as the sky was about to empty overhead, lol. Wax is good for knocking back the appearance of it a little bit so once it's had a couple of coats it should look less obvious.
When I had my door repaired, the body shop told me to bring it back again after 3-4 weeks and they would polish it to "bring it up". I wasn't going to bother as it looked perfect the day I collected it but I did notice after a week or so that the orange peel effect got worse - as the new paint/lacquer cured. So I did brImg it back in and they tackled it with a DA. It looked spot on afterwards and has been fine since. In fact that door has less orange peel than the rest of the car lol.
So I'd say don't touch it with any polish for a few weeks. Let the paint fully cure..
I'll keep my eye on it Joe. I won't be touching the resprayed panels with a DA for a while so the paint can harden. Always been advised to avoid doing anything to repainted panel for about a month but I'll leave the DA-ing of those even longer. Rest of the car will get done though.
I remember when they did my front wing on the mk6 GTI, that was better and less orange peely than factory. I have always found that its the doors and rear wings which show the peel more than other parts of the car.
