I just cleaned my white cinquecento cus its pretty dirty with oily fingermarks and all. And after cleaning it was was highly disappointed, it didnt seem very clean at all. I used turtle wash and wax. Any ideas on how to get a white car looking nice and erm.. white?
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Do you have loads of little spots of tar all over the paintwork mate?

nahh, just laods of dirt and oil that seems to of stained the paint because it doesn;t come out?
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You will need to cut the paint back with a cutting compound. This needs to be done gently so as not to remove too much paint.

Get Farecla G3 and follow the instructions.

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i use daz it gets your whites white

As it's the most simple colour there is, there'll be masses of colour specific waxes and polishes available. Give it a gentle cut as rallycinq suggests and then use a white specific polish if needed.

I sometimes put in an additional wash down of 1:1:3 mix of shampoo:bug & tar remover:water before the clear rinse but after the main shampoo. This works wonders on the Turbo Sei (Yellow) & V70 (Black but with a distinct purple tint to highlights which shows up EVERYTHING! :bang to get them looking nice n' sparkly.

i've used white t-cut on the sedici which brought it up nicely, took the dirt off pretty well. not overly exepensive. i had tryed to touch up the paint and then sanded the areas with wet 'n dry which left bright white marks, the t cut white made it all bright white.

to get rid of oil marks your going to need a water soluble degreaser....

muckoff is probably the most readily available (bike section of halfords) pink liquid

spray it on leave it 30 seconds adgitate with a mitt or microfibre then rinse well

gazzaman2k said:

i use daz it gets your whites white

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LOL that made me giggle

A white car often suffers from dull paint due to swirling and tar spots, the first one is caused by washing with a sponge in a gritty old bucket in the past and the tar spots will appear on the paintwork anyway. You will also find that a lot of contaminants have clung onto the paint and will be dulling the finish somewhat.

Your best bet for this is to get a clay bar and a lube and clay the car fully, then clean it with a paint cleanser or decent polish (Autoglym Super Resin Polish is best by hand) before applying a good wax to protect the finish.

can't you just donate to the forum and remove the "my sig looked miles better until it was resized" comment from your sig?

Tris Harris said:

can't you just donate to the forum and remove the "my sig looked miles better until it was resized" comment from your sig?

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I keep meaning to actually, I put that on there when I first got my signature and didn't realise why it was being resized. I should have removed it ages ago. I'll do it now and donate tomorrow.

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