Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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Flame Red 
Whats the best polish/compound to use to get the colour back? I've tried T-Cut Red, and its still not great 
Also, the car originally had some sort of decals on it, and they're starting to show up pretty bad. When I find out who put them on they're gonna get SUCH a slap
Thanks y'all 
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Graham
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Lincoln.
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give the whole car a really really good wash down, t-cut it ( i know stop moaning) then polish it up using a mechanical buffer, and it should come back up, might take a few gos at it tho. i need to clean mine, the rub-strip marks are showing up again 
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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I need to aquire a mechanical buffer. 
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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I t-cutted mine, then used colour restorer... all by hand, came up quite good, was apallin b4 i did it... pink/white in places
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JOPO
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Registered: 17th Jun 04
Location: ayrshire
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dis halfords no tae buffers cheap
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1600power
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Registered: 22nd Apr 04
Location: Shropshire Drives: 1.6 16v Sport
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quote:
Originally posted by JOPO
dis halfords no tae buffers cheap
wtf???
go2 argos and buy their buffer from their! its twice as powerful as the halfords one and only £20!
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Kenni
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Registered: 29th Jan 01
Location: Worcester(sauce) Drives: VX220 & Zaffy GSi
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Get it professionally mopped. Then after that polish it every other week to keep the colour.
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Coblet
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Registered: 26th Jun 04
Location: Camberley, Surrey
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If you're gonna mechanically buff it, for christs sake be careful - previous owner of mine had gone crazy and I had the polishy stuff EVERYWHERE on my car
[Edited on 20-07-2004 by Coblet]
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Paul H
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Registered: 11th Aug 03
Location: Lincoln.
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do as kenni suggests best to get it done properly or you will have swirl marks everywhere
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stuyw
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Registered: 15th May 02
Location: North West Drives: Rev3 MR2 Turbo
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this will only make it good for a short while as i did this with mine n ended up getting a respray as it started to get patchy
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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quote:
Originally posted by Laney
I need to aquire a mechanical buffer.
B&Q are doing a set at the moment, 110W buffer, with two polishing bonnets, a sponge, and a whackin great bucket, all for £20.
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mossy
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Registered: 22nd Jan 04
Location: Manchester Drives: GSi
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
quote:
Originally posted by Laney
I need to aquire a mechanical buffer.
B&Q are doing a set at the moment, 110W buffer, with two polishing bonnets, a sponge, and a whackin great bucket, all for £20.
yea we only have a few left in our store....i hid one for me
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AndyW
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Registered: 28th Oct 02
Location: Greater London
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dude!
my flame red corsa ha faded so much it was pink i t-cutted it first then gave it a coat of turtle wax high gloss 'in a squirty bottle' and no lie of exageration it looks like new mate so impressed
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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quote:
Originally posted by mossy
quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
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Originally posted by Laney
I need to aquire a mechanical buffer.
B&Q are doing a set at the moment, 110W buffer, with two polishing bonnets, a sponge, and a whackin great bucket, all for £20.
yea we only have a few left in our store....i hid one for me
Do you wear an orange apron? 
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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quote:
Originally posted by AndyW
dude!
my flame red corsa ha faded so much it was pink i t-cutted it first then gave it a coat of turtle wax high gloss 'in a squirty bottle' and no lie of exageration it looks like new mate so impressed
Cheers.
So T-Cut then a high gloss polish?
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AndyW
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Registered: 28th Oct 02
Location: Greater London
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quote:
Originally posted by Laney
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Originally posted by AndyW
dude!
my flame red corsa ha faded so much it was pink i t-cutted it first then gave it a coat of turtle wax high gloss 'in a squirty bottle' and no lie of exageration it looks like new mate so impressed
Cheers.
So T-Cut then a high gloss polish?
yup and alot of hard work
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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Yeah, they aren't bad actually... If i don't feel like polishing the car by hand, get the buffer out for much quicker job 
[Edited on 25-07-2004 by CorsAsh]
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