big eck
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I have a bit of a dilemma here, I went to view a car today and noticed that the doors and bodykit aer a different shade of red compared to the rest of the car.
The reason for this is that the guy delocked the doors and had the bodykit painted because of stone chips apart from that the car is immaculate.
What I need to know is is it possible to have the car compound polished a few times to brighten up the original paint as I dont wanna have to paint the whole car???
the parts that were painted were done in the original red but the rest have faded over time.
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ed
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Will be the colour match on the paint. Compound polishing can't really change that. If the door handles were being removed and smoothed over then pretty much the whole side of the car should hae been painted, especially if a bodykit was fitted too.
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big eck
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The kit was taken off and done and the doors we just delocked, I know what you mean about blowing the paint in but the place he went didnt do it for some reason
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big eck
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He said the colour used was the same thats on the car as he used the colour code on the inner wing its the otiginal paint that seems to have faded.
I suppose red is bad for this???
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big eck
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Its this car
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ed
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There's not much you can do really. How bad is it? But fade is a problem, even if he has used the right colour paint the match can't be 100% garunteed.
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big eck
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Its noticable, the bits that aint been painted are duller, I thought a good compound polish would brighten up the old paintwork
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ed
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Oh, if it's duller then polishing it might bring the whole thing out again and make it less noticable. It's worth a try, though you have to buy the car to fin dout 
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big eck
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I'm gonna take a good polish with me and try it on a bit of the original paint and see what happens.
The guy said i'm welcome to do this.
would it put you off buying a car though as thats all thats wrong with it.
I've offered him £2.5k btw
this is the ad
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1998-PEUGEOT-106-GTI-RED_W0QQitemZ120005221375QQihZ002QQcategoryZ9859QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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ed
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Is it straight red or metallic?
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big eck
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no idea mate, all I know is its cherry red a peugeot colour
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Slammed_Corsa
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Eck if i am correct thats the one from my town. Guy lives on the esplanade at greenock.
I have never been able to notice any paint difference. You seen it in the flesh?
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big eck
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Your right mate , he is fi greenock, yea seen it in the flesh today, looked immaculate apart fi the paint difference, the leather looks as if its never been sat on lol
you know anything about it???
Been ragged or abused in anyway
[Edited on 09-07-2006 by big eck]
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Greasemonkey
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Peugeot did the GTI in straight red and a metalic red, looks non metalic to me which is good because straight red will buff up mettalic wont as the colour is under the laquer so polishing wont bring out the colour on a metalic just the shine
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big eck
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I think its a straight red, the metallic is the deeper red like the missus one diablo red its called
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mav
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Eck it would deffo put me off..
And as for the wheels they are the earlier ones like mine but the chrome rims that were used were poor and coroded easily. My ones are the updates ones with stainless rim round alloy..
My bro in law sells these and info came from him.
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