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I suppose this applies for any car really, it's just that red seems to fade worse than any other, and i unfortunately have a red car. Tried a few things others have said, nothing has worked

* NO respray. Out of the question, too expensive for the value of the car & if things go right, the car will be going this year, but if not ... tiz why i'm making this thread.

* My car has faded badly in parts. On the rear passenger side towards the back, there's some strange fading i've never seen before. It hasn't just faded to pink/light red, it's like something has reacted with the paint. Was like this when i bought it.

* Was told to t-cut it. I did. It lasted a few months, then started fading again.
Was told i should apply colour polish. Got that t-cut colour restorant which was recommended to me. It faded after about a month.
Was told i need to t-cut it, go over with the colour restorant, and add a coat of wax. Bought some turtle wax in a bottle .... it lasted a few weeks.


Now, i KNOW there's not really anything that'll be a, do once and fixed forever solution. But i want something lasting longer than just 2 weeks. A month or more would be better.



So i'm looking for info that could help with this. Actual product names (& not just "a good wax"). Methods - cloths, microfibre clothes, those electric buffers. Just basically some good detailed info on how i can sort this problem.
After i was getting hazy info from other people, which wasn't really working, i gave up as i couldn't be bothered doing it EVERY weekend, so now it looks quite battered.
 
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How olds the car?

I think that once a red car has faded you really have to keep on top of maintence of the paintwork, restoring the colour regularly.

You have to be very careful with hard cutting compounds, you should beable to get a good result using T-cut colour restorer and sometype of red polish (i know youve used these), you'll find the more times you do it the better the results will be. Because t-cut is quite gentle, you really have to be vicious when using it, the effects are all the application (your removing the top layer of paint!).

Hope that helps...
 
I there Kev, fading is a common problem with single stage paints, the pigment reacts to the UV rays in sunlight.

My personal preference and something I have used on Red cars before would be to use your T-Cut to restore the car back to a shine. Then follow up with a polish using Autoglyms Super Resin Polish. Finally you could add 1 or 2 layers of Autoglyms Extra Gloss Protection. Both these products are easly obtainable from your local car outfit.

There is no way of preventing fading permanetly other than to repaint the car and apply a clearcoat but but polishing and protecting every 3-6 months using these you should keep it at bay.

By the way, once you've t-cut the once using the 2 Autoglym products mentioned should be sufficient.
 
Kev_83 said:
I suppose this applies for any car really, it's just that red seems to fade worse than any other, and i unfortunately have a red car. Tried a few things others have said, nothing has worked

* NO respray. Out of the question, too expensive for the value of the car & if things go right, the car will be going this year, but if not ... tiz why i'm making this thread.

* My car has faded badly in parts. On the rear passenger side towards the back, there's some strange fading i've never seen before. It hasn't just faded to pink/light red, it's like something has reacted with the paint. Was like this when i bought it.

* Was told to t-cut it. I did. It lasted a few months, then started fading again.
Was told i should apply colour polish. Got that t-cut colour restorant which was recommended to me. It faded after about a month.
Was told i need to t-cut it, go over with the colour restorant, and add a coat of wax. Bought some turtle wax in a bottle .... it lasted a few weeks.


Now, i KNOW there's not really anything that'll be a, do once and fixed forever solution. But i want something lasting longer than just 2 weeks. A month or more would be better.



So i'm looking for info that could help with this. Actual product names (& not just "a good wax"). Methods - cloths, microfibre clothes, those electric buffers. Just basically some good detailed info on how i can sort this problem.
After i was getting hazy info from other people, which wasn't really working, i gave up as i couldn't be bothered doing it EVERY weekend, so now it looks quite battered.
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Get yourself on http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/ you will never look back and your car will come up the best you've seen it i promise:)
 
cheers guys

it's not a Fiat red, it's a Ford red. Not that i'd expect it to make much difference, because red cars seem to fade badly no matter what their make. Unless it's say, a Ferrari :D but i don't have that kinda cash.

It's an N '96 so quite old. I'd say the doors, the roof strangely enough (would've thought it'd be terrible as the sun is always on it) and the back of the car are the better areas. Everywhere else is quite bad.

tpf: yeah, i've noticed once i put this colour restorant on, it brings out the shine real nice. It just fades the following week or so.
I've heard T-Cut actually isn't so good & that say, AutoGlym Paint Renovator is actually a better product to be using??

Also, do you recommend hand/machine application? If i was to use AG Paint Renovator, then their polish & a couple coats of the gloss, that would be decent enough? Then every month or so, perhaps a single coat of polish & then gloss would maybe do the trick?

It's not an expensive motor, so i'm not looking to spend a mass amount or take hours & hours sorting things. I'd just like it to look better, for longer, than it does.
 
Have a look on my link, everything you need to know is there. I cant really advise on whats best for it as never worked on faded paint.
 
cheers, that link is pretty damn good

maybe i just haven't found it, but another thing she was wanting was, interior clean. I think just a plastics clean really, so that'd be all the plastics of the interior, the door handles too as she said they look rough. I don't know if they came out jet black brand new, but they're like a faded grey.

I had some turtle wax plastic thing. It does ok i guess for a short while, but then you need to keep sticking the damn stuff on. Wondering if there's a better p[roduct out there.
 
When i got mine it was faded really badly, so i spent about for hours t-cuting and polish every panel individually, then polished it with red polish everyweek for a month until it was a really shiny red, and looked the colour it was suposed to and now i just polish it once a fortnight and it stays perfect!!!
 
when i got mine it was quite badly faded, went to work on it with Meguiars 3 stage cut and polish. took about 5 hours to get it looking good but well worth it. now i just wash it and apply carnuba wax after. not cheap stuff but well worth it to keep the shine and glossy look (y)
helps to keep it out of the sun too, mines undercover most of the time now
 
pranksta said:
When i got mine it was faded really badly, so i spent about for hours t-cuting and polish every panel individually, then polished it with red polish everyweek for a month until it was a really shiny red, and looked the colour it was suposed to and now i just polish it once a fortnight and it stays perfect!!!
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No need to polish it that much, the key is protecting the paint with a good sealent/wax with UV inhibitors in it.
 
* what would be a good sealant with UV inhibitors? I saw decent sealants mentioned on the site, but didn't spot word of UV inhibitors

Anywho, impossible for me to keep mine out of the sun. No garage, nothing to park my car inside, so, not possible :(
 
This is one example of what can be done with modern polishes. None of the dated T-cut rubbish. Note also the supaguard sticker which shows what a waste of money and sales hype it is.


1.Megs #80
2 Megs #83
4.Polished with klasse aio
5.Glazed
6.Waxed


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This was the guys first attempt:)
 
Supagard needs re-applying after 3 years yes, so an N reg car (1996) is wel behind!
also supagard needs to be washed once a month using the wash provided to top up the wax.
I would recommend the supagard alloy wheel thingy though, makes life so easy to wash the alloys! you can literally throw a bucket of warm water at them and it washes brake dust off straight away!
 
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