Hi there i have a mate with a 2.8 capri in red he has left it out side for a whule and the red paintwork has gone that sort of pinky look in certin parts of the car.I have tryed t cut and waxed hell out of it,and it did look a bit better but still not right can any one suggest a product or method to get it looking a1 again.Thanks a lot as the car would be mint its a one owner 2.8 special with a turbo techniks conversion on it and only 47000 miles thanks every one.

 

get some red tcut on it and a good polish

 

Take it to a body shop and have it moped, will come up a treat

But, I had an xr3i that was red faded to pink, in places white

T-cutted it for hours and bought it up perfect, but by foook you really really had to rub at each panel, whole bottle of t-cut for the car

 

this is the reason why i painted my car in base and clear....

yeh u can mop it but dont expect it to last forever.

 

Decent paint renovators and polishing is your answer

T-cut is ok-ish but shite compared to others

Try auto glym renovator then buff it up with auto glym super ressin


I bought my red mondi st24 a few years ago and paint work was shit but rest of car was super mint and really low milage etc so i bought the car with the know i had a few hours of grafting ahead of me ,ill post a few piccies if i can find some

 

Sadly i cant find the before piccies but heres a piccy the day after i bought it ........... it had had a wash and a cut with a quick coat of polish till the following days cleaning started and wheels changed etc




Has a bit of a shine but still very shite ,lol,

This is what i turned it into for a show i did only a few weeks after i bought her , nice shine and decent alloys (this was when nobody had d-cuts alloys and i was pestered questions at shows all day,lol)....

 

Meguirs stage 1 2 and 3 all available from Halfords.
Easy to work with and brings up the paint nice.

 

If its faded to much t-cut wont work. Take it to a paintshop or a good valeter and get it machine polished with G3 compound. it'll bring the paint back too as good as new

 

from this





to this





I washed it then dried it, then took a buffer and G3 to it, after that it was polished with a good wax, took 5 hours and will probably need done again, tho i think for a van thats 18 years old the paintwork came up fairly well.

Was quite hard work but worth it. My £102 ebay summer project, i will do a resto thread once its done as well