How do I bring back my paint to life

[toyopl]

I bought my car 3 years ago, I really wanted a Scion, since we didn't have this brand in Canada and I loved how it looked and how much space it had.
I bought one from my local Toyota dealer with 9k miles on it, everything looked great, no sign of any differences in paint or accidents.

Now time has passed and my back doors are much much more lighter than rest of the car, it's not really visible in the picture, but color somehow faded. And from left side of the door hadle, all the way to the bottom looks like wide water mark, or sanding mark or something, the paint is even lighter there.

Can I somehow bring this painnt back to life ?
I use all meguiars, I use Gold Wash, Clay, M26, NXT Wax, detailer....etc, I have maybe $500 worth of Meguiars products in the garage, I try to deteail it as much as I can, but I ended up with a car that was not what I was buying, really dissapointed.

[Murr1525]

Re: How do I bring back my paint to life

Looks like there is kind of a light mark running down the back door in the pic?

Can you get anything more close up?

The problem is that if that is the actual color of the paint, that is how it will look. Unless there is something to remove.

[Michael Stoops]

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That almost looks like a bad color match/blend job on a repaint, but if that's the case it would have been this apparent from day one. Did you purchase the vehicle used or new? Did this appear over a long or fairly brief period of time?

[Blue Apollo IV]

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That sure does look like a bad repaint/blend job. Looks like an area around the lighter paint where the original paint was feathered out and sanded.

[Joe Dragon]

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...I bought one from my local Toyota dealer with 9k miles on it...

I agree with Apollo. Since you bought this as a used car my hunch is the rear door had been damaged, repaired then repainted. If so, probably the only way to deal with it is to have the door repainted by someone who knows what they're doing; matching the paint to the rest of the 3 year old paint on the car could be problematic.

[smack]

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9K miles shouldnt be to hard to match for a competant body man. Just make sure you do your research for a quality auto body shop.

[toyopl]

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Oh the car has 60k miles on it now, and it's 2006.
I'm guessing from what you guys are saying repaint wouldd be the only choice and matching paint at this time would be not easy ? even doable ?>

[rst08tierney]

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do you feel orange peel with your hand or is the surface smooth?


In your neck of the woods in canada, do they use acid or salts on the road? Reason I ask is I have seen in very RARE instances, poor body work exposed by the acid they spray the roads with. I have also seen the acid eat away "plastic" chrome and leave a brown haze that cant be removed

[Speed3Owner]

Re: How do I bring back my paint to life

I would try some Deep Crystal Pure Polish. That stuff is amazing. Worse case scenario you'd end up with shiny faded paint. =P