Restoring faded red paint

[Gezzard]

Well after 14 years the paint on my Micra has gone from AJ4 flame red to a patchy pink eyesore, I've tried T-cut and Mer to no avail. Anyone got any hints on how to restore it to a more pleasing red colour? any different liquids I could use?

Ooh, and also some of the laquer has peeled off from the rear wing, and loooks ugly, any hints for that too, I'll try to get a picture in the daylight.

Cheers guys.

 

[Arnold]

3m cutting compound is quite good. Used an angle grinder with a polishing bonnet fitted with some of that on my car and it brought the colour back

 

[Stani1029]

what arnold said works, my old red car was the same i a friend done it

the back of that was pink like you said

 

[Paul Smith]

which cutting compund did you use and where did you get the polishing cloth for your angle grinder?

 

[frank]

which cutting compund did you use and where did you get the polishing cloth for your angle grinder?

bodyshops use farecla G3 (coarse) then G7 (finer) compound, and a sponge mop head on a similar machine to a grinder (but slower speed)

 

[Arnold]

if your paint is really faded like my Corsa, then you'd need something like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=370084024363&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=024

if it's slightly faded, they do a less abrasive one.

 

[Stani1029]

i dont know what he used, he did spend about 3 hours doing it though and that was for nothing he did say for the bottle of stuff he was using it cost £50, but it would do about 20 cars, and he never used an angle grinder with a pad, it was like a thing that was made for doing it and that cost over £100

 

[Retepetsir]

You don't want to use a grinder, the speed is too fast. Ideally you want a random orbital polisher.