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I'm Pat from Boise, ID. I have 3 vehicles, each with its' own set of challenges. I started coming to this site to try to learn how to tackle each of the challenges and to learn more about the products and techniques that will help solve each set of problems.
#1 - 2003 motorhome. There are some places (front & rear end caps + trim around the slide-outs) that are as white as the day the MH was built (because they're painted). The rest of the MH is gelcoated fiberglass, which has yellowed over the years. I bought a Porter-Cable 7424 DA polisher last year to tackle the problems - with a very "mild" product I made some improvements, but there are still 2 very different colors (white & yellowed). So now I need to use some more aggressive products (on order), but I have to be careful about the vinyl decals on the sides of the coach - I don't want the edges to start coming up, and I'm guessing that the compounds could damage the decals, which I don't want to do. But they've faded a little as well, and I want to bring them back to life, if possible.
#2 - 2002 Jeep Liberty (burgundy). This vehicle gets towed behind the motorhome. The front end got gravel-blasted a couple of times on our trip to Alaska, and looks terrible now - all of the white/gray spots against the dark burgundy paint that survived. I'm trying to make it look better, but since the car still gets towed behind the motorhome, more stone chips will happen, so I don't want to go too crazy on the touch-ups.
#3 - 2000 Subaru Outback wagon (also burgundy). I didn't do a good job in the early years with this car, and there is some paint damage due to the neglect. I tried to clean it up last year when I got the P-C, but by making the good paint look better I just made the bad spots look worse. Unfortunately, the worst area is the hood, so it really shows, but would also REALLY show if I made it even worse. So, I've got some research to do on how to tackle that one.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Pat
I'm Pat from Boise, ID. I have 3 vehicles, each with its' own set of challenges. I started coming to this site to try to learn how to tackle each of the challenges and to learn more about the products and techniques that will help solve each set of problems.
#1 - 2003 motorhome. There are some places (front & rear end caps + trim around the slide-outs) that are as white as the day the MH was built (because they're painted). The rest of the MH is gelcoated fiberglass, which has yellowed over the years. I bought a Porter-Cable 7424 DA polisher last year to tackle the problems - with a very "mild" product I made some improvements, but there are still 2 very different colors (white & yellowed). So now I need to use some more aggressive products (on order), but I have to be careful about the vinyl decals on the sides of the coach - I don't want the edges to start coming up, and I'm guessing that the compounds could damage the decals, which I don't want to do. But they've faded a little as well, and I want to bring them back to life, if possible.
#2 - 2002 Jeep Liberty (burgundy). This vehicle gets towed behind the motorhome. The front end got gravel-blasted a couple of times on our trip to Alaska, and looks terrible now - all of the white/gray spots against the dark burgundy paint that survived. I'm trying to make it look better, but since the car still gets towed behind the motorhome, more stone chips will happen, so I don't want to go too crazy on the touch-ups.
#3 - 2000 Subaru Outback wagon (also burgundy). I didn't do a good job in the early years with this car, and there is some paint damage due to the neglect. I tried to clean it up last year when I got the P-C, but by making the good paint look better I just made the bad spots look worse. Unfortunately, the worst area is the hood, so it really shows, but would also REALLY show if I made it even worse. So, I've got some research to do on how to tackle that one.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Pat
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