Cawood

fookin shite stuff, bonnet was a bit scratched so thought i'd give it a T-cut, get them all out before i polished it all up.

applied the T-Cut, let 15min, came back to car, to find it had stuck like glue! after 2 hrs of hard (and i mean fucking hard) labour, i've managed to get most of it off, but its left more scratches and its still patchy marks where the shit just wont budge!

in the end its made the bonnet worse now, n dont know how to get it off completely

only thing is the T-cuts about 5 years old (but it doesn't have a use by date)

Physio

I thought you were meant to apply t-cut to one panel at a time & take it straight off? I could be wrong.

EIL132

Use a buff, doing it by hand is a waste of time.

Rick

do it in sun? its actually good stuff

cossie1

I always found with t-cut if it was hard to remove just put some fresh t-cut on and then wipe it off staright away.

Spiky

iTrader: (1)

why did you leave it????? as AJ says, do a panel at a time

Rhys

You shoudnt have left it mate!!!!!!! I put T cut on the use normal wax straight off the top of it then buff off!!! works a treat

Eagle

iTrader: (2)

never ever left mine to dry for 15 mins... that might be your problem mate
also depends on the other stuff on your bonnet ,old polish etc as it tends to get everything off....

Cawood

yeah just did the one panel, bonnet, aint ya meant to leave it to dry?

nah did it in garage cos as soon as i applied it, it started pissing it down

you mean one of those electric buffer james? considered buyin one of those but my mate told me not to

Cawood

ah bugger! wont be leaving it to dry next time then (if i ever get the shit off!)

Zetec Andy

15 minutes put it on, leave it 2 mins max and wipe it back off

Stu.H

fook me i left mine about 40 seconds and it took some scrubbin to get off

who told u 15 minutes?

Fast Guy

Put it on a cloth and rub it straight in

Lee Reynolds

too warm to be t cutting by hand mate!

MikeyXR2i

yeah t-cut is leathel if ya leave it, should be buffed straight off, and out of the sun.

Fast Guy

It's done nowt but rain thunder and lightning up here this week, about 20mins of sun I think.

mattbibs

did you get it wet? as you said it started to rain as you applied it.

if its all off now then id try to polish it up again. if still patchy then dare i say it - try t cut again & do it quick this time!

Lee Reynolds

Still a warm climate tho even when raining. If it was taken into garage i bet it was about 18-20 deg C

Dan@Rapid-Ford

iTrader: (5)

I saw on TV program a bloke used it then washed it off with warm water he explained that it's a cutting compound and if you keep rubbing it keeps cutting into the paint but once you've got the mark/orange peel out you wash it off.

most people use it a little at a time and remove it with clean cloth which is why the don't have problems.

me i'm scared shitless of the stuff after polishing my mums car with t-cut in the summer holidays when i was a kid fooked it right up.

don't get me started on them fooking mops either

hth

cheers

Daniel

saff_cossie

straight on and near enough straight off. If you are quick you should just about get a bonnet waxed before its time to take it off again. The sun is a killer as well as it turns it chalky which will scratch it.

apples24

if your local to southampton pop it down and ill sort it out, ill run a mop over it

MWF

Buy a Scotch Brite microfibre cloth from Tesco, that should pull the stuff off OK. Then polish the car and wax.

Cawood

apples cheers for the offer mate, up in W.yorks tho, bit of a trek

i just assumed you leave it 15min (like ya do with polish)

Can T-cut go off? or was it just down to the fact i left it so long?

whats better standard T-cut or the stuff that is coloured to your car?

just need to get all the fine scratches out of it

cheeRS everyone

MWF

T-Cut doesn't go off it just dries out. When it is completely dry the cloth you use will struggle to remove it.

For fine scratches and cob webs a normal polish like AutoGlyms Super Resin Polish or Mequiars Gold Class stage-2 polish should remove them without making it worse.

Cawood

nah, autoglym hasn't removed them, thats why i thought i'd go for T-cut, its worked on the original scratches just add some new ones now

sorry when i said go off, i meant over time, i've had the bottle over 5 years and its gone abit scabby,

MWF

Try the AutoGlym Paint Renovator then, that's more hardcore but you will need to re-polish with the Super Resin after.

Meguiars to a 3-stage system with a seperate cutting polish, finishing polish and wax.

adamS2RST

Gutted for u mate

CabrioTurbo

imo you would be better using something less harsh try turtle wax original colour restorer may be better.. it wont cut about 10 layers of paint away and is MUCH easier to remove than T-cut fine for getting light scratches out...
If you have deeper scratches then use a mop or at least a buffer thing (i bought one from makro and it takes all the work out of doing it!) as it will take you FOR EVER by hand

DazC

iTrader: (1)

PMSL @ leavint T Cut to dry!!!

You're meant to apply it in small sections (on large panels do a 12 inch square partch at a time) and rub it into the paint. This means you put a lot of pressure onto the panel (but not too much to buckle the panel obviously). Make sure the rag is shaped like a pad and is smooth (no creases in it because the pressure you're meant to apply to the panel with the rag will make the paint it there is a crease in it. Then you will have to TCut it again). If the patch you are T Cutting starts to dry out then apply some more.......the actuall t cut should turn the colour of your car and so should the rag also. If you leave it to dry then you can TCut it back off in the same way as long as there are no hard lumps of it (break them of first).

If you do not rub the T Cut into the paint then the paint will start to dull after a short while and will end up back as it was.

Polish you leave on to dry...not T Cut!

It's a lot easier with a mop and rubbing compound....esspecially in this weather. Just remember not to let the T Cut dry and you should be alright....apart from sweating you knackers off.....

Cawood

pmsl, yep i was sweating me knackers off last night, till about 9pm

whats a mop?

cabro i've tried less harsh things and they just dont do the job,

MWF, i'll see if my local halfords has some of the paint renovator in

DazC

iTrader: (1)

A mop.... proper term is a buffer or polisher...its like a slow speed large angle grinder with a sponge (or other buffing attatchment) and it rotates round a lot slower than an angle grinder and takes a lot of the effort out of compounding the pain yourself...

See here

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product...0&r=2115&g=115

And here

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product...0&r=2115&g=115

I need to do mine soon as well..

Cawood

oh yeah, i just knew it as a buffer

i wanted one of these but me dad put me off, coz his mate did his discovery and fucked all the paint work up on it.

do you have to really careful with these? whats the score with them?

CabrioTurbo

lol you can burn the paint off the car if you hold it in the same spot too long
If used correctly then they are fine.. just dont use cutting compound (G3) all the time or you wont have any paint left!

Cawood

i dont think i will anyway by the time i've managed to get all this T-cut off