Faided paint

[armatage]

My Jetta GTI is red and a bit faded.  I have tried T-cutting it by hand and also with a electric buffing pad but still faded, I think it must have gone quite deep into the paint.  When polished it looks very good but over a week or 2 the fadedness comes back.
Is there anything else I can use?

[...joe]

from what i've heard, a red faded car is f**ked. sorry, like you say you can polish and t cut it but it'll still fade. try taking it to a professional valeter, or bodyshop and get them top flatten polish it. its a pretty harsh process but thats about the best you could do.

[Mr Blue]

use some G3 cutting compound. Much better than T-cut and comes in bigger bottles/tubs. can be found online but not sure where

[G6dub]

use some G3 cutting compound. Much better than T-cut and comes in bigger bottles/tubs. can be found online but not sure where

This is what we use all the time, it works really well and is great for getting out small scratches too using a  mop with it we find best

[carrie]

i posted a question once about faded mars red paint, the answer came back it was to do with the dyes they used to create red.
point is its the dye in the paint which has gone, using a polisher with rubbing compuond will only serve to get you a grey car followed eventualy by a silver one, the silver one will then eventually go redish, but then brown and the car will dissapear
it will not improve

[piggy]

use some G3 cutting compound. Much better than T-cut and comes in bigger bottles/tubs. can be found online but not sure where

I used some of this on my old White mk2 and it came up a treat, but what's it like on Metallic Paint, as I haven't done my current car yet?

[Fielder5757]

Re-spray my friend. My black Golf was a little faided so its been re-sprayed at the moment

[piggy]

My paintwork is original and in very good condition, but could do with losing those little fine scratches.
Don't wanna start using G3 on it unless peeps think it's ok to do

[carrie]

the point is tcut, rubbing compound et al.
are ALL abrasive they work by removing a small portion of the paint do it enough and no paint.
cutting compound is the last thing to use on lacquer paint
ie metallic.
in fact cutting compound why? have you just sprayed the car and had some small runs in it.

[Mr Blue]

when i got a respray, they ran a mop over the whole car with g3 compound and it came out blinging on the metallic paint.

so this must be alrite on metallics right?