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    I have a badly faded red car, what's the best polish to give it a shine?

    one of the fleet is a red honda prelude that the paintwork is pretty fucked on, i have just repossessed it from boy#1 and boy #3 is going to learn to drive in it its not worth the cost of a paint job, pretty much all the panels facing up are badly oxidised whats the best longest lasting fix

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    A good cut and polish. Costs ... bugger all (just your time)
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    A good cut and polish. Costs ... bugger all (just your time)
    Yep, lots of time and lots of rags.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Yep, lots of time and lots of rags.
    He lives in Dunedin ... so he has plenty of time. There's nothing else to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    He lives in Dunedin ... so he has plenty of time. There's nothing else to do.
    i could drive to your place and let your tyres down.......thanks the only rags i have im wearing

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    i could drive to your place and let your tyres down.......thanks the only rags i have im wearing
    Ok ... I'll lend you some rags if you like ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    He lives in Dunedin ... so he has plenty of time. There's nothing else to do.
    Bit like Alex methinks,sit around and pick your toenails all daysorry mate forgot about your webbed feet..come to think of it with those you to should live in Dunners.
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    Clear coated red cars can be a bugger to fix. If you ever find yourself up here you can lend my polisher.

    Other than that a couple of grades of cutting polish and a few hours of elbow grease. Get No3 to help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    one of the fleet is a red honda prelude that the paintwork is pretty fucked on, i have just repossessed it from boy#1 and boy #3 is going to learn to drive in it its not worth the cost of a paint job, pretty much all the panels facing up are badly oxidised whats the best longest lasting fix
    Why bother?
    (a) No.3 won't appreciate it - or he'd be badgering you to let him do it.
    (b) No.3 is very likely going to scuff it a tad while learning to drive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flip View Post
    Clear coated red cars can be a bugger to fix. If you ever find yourself up here you can lend my polisher.

    Other than that a couple of grades of cutting polish and a few hours of elbow grease. Get No3 to help.
    Thats a bloody good idea Flip,"before you drive it you polish it"...Finish off the hard work with either Mothers or Meguiars polish Jimmy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Why bother?
    (a) No.3 won't appreciate it - or he'd be badgering you to let him do it.
    (b) No.3 is very likely going to scuff it a tad while learning to drive.
    That to is a very good couple of points,wayyyyy back when a young fella i had an XW ute and came across an XYGS in a small dealers showroom,fell in love with the thing and when talking to the dealer about price etc he said "not sure but it needs a good clean up (it did) and some TLC before i put it up for sale,theres been quite a few guys in here pestering me about the thing" so next morning was a Saturday i got up early and went and parked outside his showroom until he turned up when he arrived he said "i told you blah blah...) i said "im here to help clean it up" which i spent the day doing,at some stage he offered me a price for my ute and sold me the GS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    Bit like Alex methinks,sit around and pick your toenails all daysorry mate forgot about your webbed feet..come to think of it with those you to should live in Dunners.
    Yep I got the webbed ones ... I'm just thinking how hard it would be for you's in Oamaru, to pick your toenails ... with those 12 toe's an' all ...

    I won't mention the 12 fingers ... oop's
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    Yep I got the webbed ones ... I'm just thinking how hard it would be for you's in Oamaru, to pick your toenails ... with those 12 toe's an' all ...

    I won't mention the 12 inches ... oop's
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    Sand paper, elbow grease and some red paint?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    one of the fleet is a red honda prelude that the paintwork is pretty fucked on, i have just repossessed it from boy#1 and boy #3 is going to learn to drive in it its not worth the cost of a paint job, pretty much all the panels facing up are badly oxidised whats the best longest lasting fix
    The last Prelude I look at doing a cut and polish had very thin paint. Tried a patch, but had to cut so much paint off it worked out not worth doing (would be no paint left on the car to protect what was left).

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