guznax

Hi Guys,
The red paint on my 928 is lightly faded but on quite a big area of the hood, front right fender and the roof.
The faded part is the factory guards red.

I dont want to respray the Original paint. I'm thinking of goning to a detailist to have the damaged paint polished off.
On this the thickness of the paint is measured quite often during the process.
How is this performed on the aluminum parts of the 928 where the thickness cannot be measured?

Have you had any good experienced doning this treatment?
We are probably not the first to have faded paint :-)

regards,

Xander, Holland

Mrmerlin

yes get it polished it will return its luster ,
then keep it waxed and out of the sun as much as possible

Chuck Schreiber

guznax

Thanks guys!
from Texas to amsterdam is a bit far, but I get your point.
find a very good detailer and he/she will work wonders.

And measuring thinckness of the paint can be done accurately with aluminum?

GT6ixer

guznax

oke thnx!

karl ruiter

We call that 'guards pink'

guznax

yes :-)
you just see it under certain angles and when you look really close.
This is the same car a week earlier.

Wisconsin Joe

Red is a color that fades badly.

It also polishes up incredibly well.
I've seen amazing tranformations of color with a simple polish job.

Find a skilled craftsman and you won't have anything to worry about.

hb253

It won't make it perfect, but try Meguiars #7. The paint on my hood wasn't as bad as yours, but several applications made a huge difference. The best part is it doesn't remove paint.

Check out this link: https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...ge-paints.html

Hugo

Don Carter

I had great luck with my red 87 using Mequiars 105 (heavy cut), followed by 205 (medium cut), followed by Amigo (light polish), then wax. I used a digital HF buffer (non orbital) with foam pads at about 2200 RPMs if I remember right. Amazing results.

granprixweiss928

go to a good detailer and ask for "paint Correction", which would include a wash, clay bar (with clay or synthetic mit) and then multi-stage polish, blemish and scratch removal followed up with a sealant or good mutliple layers of wax. Synthetic sealer will last longer but nothing like carrnuba wax to bring back deep luster.

guznax

Thanks, guys!

Don, how bad was is before? do you have pictures of the fading on your 87?

Don Carter

guznax,

Here's a Thread I started on it in 2013. Unfortunately the pic in the thread were on a server that no longer exists. Here's a few of the pics that were in the thread.

Before

After

guznax

Thanks for looking up the pictures, Don!
I can see the difference scratches in the reflection.
I regognize the cloudy haze in the first picture (hard to see)