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My daughter's truck has a paint job by one of those chain paint shops. Today I did the 5 step routine wash,clay,paint cleaner, polish and wax. Tried it by hand and then with a power polisher no difference.Even used Scratch X. Any advice? Should I do like the old days and use rubbing compound and then wax? By the way all products were Meguiar's. Used the Quick Clay kit on my 96 Ford F150 really worked well. Still cant get rid of the love bug stains, white paint.
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Re: Shine up cheap paint
what kind of defects does the paint job have?" Sometimes logic is your friend (Mike-In-Orange)" -
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Rough to the touch, that is why I used the Quick Clay. Did not seem to help. Spoty, polish did not remove. Kinda of glossy but no depth. Paint is kind of metalflake.Comment
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I know exactly what you are talking about and there is not a whole lot that you can do
you usually see this when you get one of those duplicolor paints and tr to repaint parts for your car and it has no gloss to it. I think it may be caused by moving the sprayer too slow.
Maybe someone else knows of a fix??Patrick Yu
2003 Honda Accord
2008 Honda Accord EX-L V6
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Maybe a 2000 grit wet sand and a compond and rotary buff.Trouble is ,nobody wants to do it because of fear of buffing thru.Comment
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I agree with Larry. I once had to do a hood from a black chevy Corsa and man! it was tough! i waxed the car like in 30 minutes and the hood took me HOURS to do it using different grades of sand paper (1500,1000). I do recognize the guy who painted it did a bad job that made a challenging job for me, and a biiig experience which I still remember
this is the car (just as a reference of the model)
Flfisher, are you familiar with the use of a rotary and wet sanding?" Sometimes logic is your friend (Mike-In-Orange)"Comment
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No experience with rotary or wet sanding. not sure I want to go there. Just wondering would any body use rubbing compound, since I don't believe there is a clear coat on it. Scratch X did not seem to phase it. What about on a polisher?This is not a classic, just a older Nissan truck to get my daughter thru school. But I would like it to shine up. Thanks for your input.Comment
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Where in Florida?Let's make all of the cars shiny!Comment
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the paint's white right? to see if the paint is single-staged, grab a dark rag or terry cloth towel (red, blue, or black are recommended) and pour some scratchX. work it a little bit and if the rag is stained white, then it's single stage. if not, it has a clear coat then.
using rubbing compound is not a bad idea, but it all depends if the roughness is because of a bad paint job, which if in this case that is, it'll take you pretty good time to fix all the truck. try a test spot and see how much time it takes to to smooth it out with a polisher (PC is recommended in this case) and something a little more aggressive like M83(cual action cleaner/polish).
if it's a little, then it's a hard defect that is removable. if there's some improvement, it'll be very time consuming, but if it improves very little, then it'll be necessary to use a rotary and compounds, and maybe even sanding paper to get the results you're expecting
Hope this helps" Sometimes logic is your friend (Mike-In-Orange)"Comment
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