Faided paint

[carrie]

they might of removed of a few lumps from the surface of the laquer, it is not for general use, if you want you can fcuk your paint up faster with a brillo pad

[piggy]

That's why I'm not sure about using it, or T cut cos I'm bothered about ruining the Metallic paint.

Any ideas what I can use to get rid of those faint lines on dullish paintwork?

[carrie]

generally i use the autoglym polish (not the paint renovator) which cleans the paint then follow with the high gloss polish as this means a couple of weeks of easy rinsing to keep it clean.
tcut do a blue one for metallic but i have not used it.

[Dizzie]

right, here's my 2p. After A LOT of t-cut and elbow grease the red/orange/pink car I was using looked something like the pic below. Then as I knew in days it'd return to it's previous state I put 2 coats of Mequiars liquid gold wax on to try and lock in the colour. It worked for 6 weeks until I had to give the car back anyway.

[...joe]

so...... i guess we're all in agreement that you can cut it back but it wont last as the pigment is knackered?

[marcogolfo]

the scientific reason is that the colour red fades faster than any other colour because it has the shortest wavelength and is more easily excited by sunlight, thus causing it to fade quicker.  There's more to it than this, but think about the colours of the rainbow, they go in shortest to longest wavelength,  thus darker cars dont tend to fade as quick.

In English - The bottom line is get it sprayed if you want it to last.
regards
marco

[Sugar79]

i used to have a mint XR2 in red, in the summer the back quater panel used to fade, i was t-cuting it every other day, until some drunk driver with no insurance mot etc pulled out infront of me and wrote it off lol

I had a white XR2i after that and if anyone has got a white car and its looking a bit dull, get it bleached!!
I used to do car valeting and there is a special bleach for white cars that you leave on for a few mins, then spray off, then wax the car after, you'll be amazed how good the paint work will look.
I think you can pick some up from an wholesaler. 

[Gambit]

take the car to a proper valeter who will run a mop over it then get them to use a proper carnuba hard wax on it, it'll be fine and last longer than any wax you buy of the shelf