Its Amazing What Some Polish & Elbow Grease Will Do!

[N!CK R]

Ok, so not exactly pics of the whole car...
Did some colour coding at the weekend and the finish was really dull. Spent a couple hours with a polishing cloth and SRP, the result was quite surprising.

 

[mullen]

big difference!

 

[Lewis_S]

bet u was happy as larry the way that turned out !

 

[vinvin]

whats SRP mate?

 

[Soph]

they look well good. need to get my fella on the job of colour coding mine!

 

[N!CK R]

whats SRP mate?

SRP - Super Resin Polish.

You will probably see people say SRP a lot on this forum. EGP is also used a lot, which is Extra Gloss Protection.
Both products are made by AutoGlym, very good stuff.

 

[Lewis_S]

whats SRP mate?

auto glym super resin polish

 

[Lewis_S]

beaten to it lol

 

[Pettsi]

Top job fella!

 

[vinvin]

oh right, i have that come to think of it...

 

[VeinAST]

Gonna have to have a go on my sidestrips this weekend methinks

 

[The Boosh!]

you could have just caked it in laquer though

 

[N!CK R]

you could have just caked it in laquer though

I did!
But i gave it 3 coats then left it overnight and then gave it another coat, so i think thats why i got the dull finish.

 

[Reyes]

f**k me thats well nice

 

[.Gem.]

Oooh! Looks tres shiny! Good effort

 

[Coby.]

Its come up well..... Will Improve the Look of the ten fold aswell

 

[Reyes]

Did you just rub the s**t out of it?

 

[gtruk]

yeah after he done the bumper stripe

 

[J03]

woow, i think i need to do that with mine... fook trying to coat it with laquer! it took me ages to get it right without dripping or without accidentally touching it and left finger marks..

 

[bmh.01]

Erm thats what you have to do when spraying metalic paints with laquer like that. The process (afaik) is primer then paint then 1500 grit wet and dry to a matt finish then laquer. Then wet and dry the laquer to a matt finish and then cut it back up with polish.

 

[VeinAST]

Polished my sidestrip up today the one that went all crappy and it's turned out to a perfec finish. ta Nick

 

[J03]

polished my colour coded front mouldings too and theyv come out like fresh! looks even better than when i put the laquer on thanks!

 

[N!CK R]

Polished my sidestrip up today the one that went all crappy and it's turned out to a perfec finish. ta Nick

polished my colour coded front mouldings too and theyv come out like fresh! looks even better than when i put the laquer on thanks!

Ha ha brilliant, glad i was some sort of help!

And yea i did the whole sand, primer, wetflat, basecost and lacquer. The lacquer just went really dull.

 

[OldBonesMcGee]

Hi sorry bit of a noob here, but did u remove the back bumper to colour code it or just mask off the bits around it. And do the side strips pop off or do u need to take the door panel off from the inside to get at them from the back. Come to think of it, does anyone know if there is a thread on this site explaining this entire process?

Thanks
Dan