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as a pro painter i wouldnt recomend this!!!! BUT! :clap:learn by you mistakes! if your confident in doing it and you can afford to pay someone to put it right if it goes wrong have ago!

yeah black waffel fine mate!

back this up! take time with the glaze!

pm me mate and i will bring a black bonnet! thats the test of all tests!!!!:)what we letting ourselves in for????sorry weve stolen your tread mate! bring it to ccs and do it for you!

hi dave! been painting and polishing for 25 years now and like gally said maybe my advice too much for beginners! point taken! going to be at clio saterday with my inferno and maybe bring a bonnet and give some hands on on polishing,touch up and polish! and ways round things!

hi gally! i think shocking advise is abit over the top but! my pro advice would be if you want a perfect finish take it to a pro! many people cant afford this with there first cars etc! im trying to help these guys and maybe your right my opinion is to pro and could cost them! hope your at...

you have applied the next coat to soon or to late then! too soon and all you do is add to the coat youve put on and its runs and if too late it wont grip to the coat beneth so it runs! im a painter and timing is crusial!!! you can get just as good finish nearly with a can if you know what your...

yeah you can get away with g3! bit old hat but will do the job! slow speed and loads of water will sto some of the swirl marks! you could finish with a 3m waffle pad and some finesse it for a great finish!

umm!i do run a bodyshop! if you cant flat a light scratch out with 2000 grade paper and polish it you shouldnt be using a polisher in the first place!!!!

thats abit excessive!!!! 1xetch then 2x colour and two lacquer if your really keen!better get yours ballanced if there putting that mutch paint on!!!;)

no you dont!any light scratches that you have may not come out by just polishing though!!you can just flat these with some eithe 1500 or 2000 grit wet and dry with soapy water then polish back up!

sorry to burst any bubbles!!! liquid yellow is a 3 stage pearl so repaint only! many bodyshops will steer clear and painters book holiday if this sort of colour comes in! it cant be blended as a 3 stage pearl!!! it can be done though! ive got a simalar mx5 colour coming in next month which is a...

paintstriper will be fine mate! nitromorse is the best! just scratch the surface of the paint first before you apply it then it can get into the paint! when you have a metal finish you can wipe it with thinners or water and this will nutrlise the acid in the paint stripper! if you use water make...

anyone near newbury area is welcome to pm me regarding painless dent removal! i pmed my area rep regarding this as i run a bodyshop and our dent guy is the best out there! he charges per panel! an example would be if you had 4 or 5 car park dents in your drivers door it would be £45 per panel...

put masking tape all around it then with a razor blade with the blade 90 degrees to the panel then scape it with a forward and back motion! when you star hitting the masking tape al the way around it your nearly there!! block it wet and dry mybe some 1200 to start with but just the area you have...

quicky! the red gasket between the cam cover and the upper inlet? can you still get this or discontinued and use gasket sealer? it didnt come in a complete head gasket set? anyone know?

put a pic up mate!!!

dont even go there with that espesially if the panel has been painted before!!!!thinners wont touch super glue but could damage paint if not original!it can be done though!

what have you done and where is it? how big??

polishing is a great way of doing it but you remove the uv potection from the headlamp that way so they will yellow up in time! yes some polish and wax will protect it abit!

you shouldnt really be putting a baby through a car wash as social services could get involved! but as for the swirls in your car chuck the tcut straight in the bin mate!!! needs machine polishing mate! what colour? depends how deep the scratches are will depend on what to use! at our bodyshop...

sounds very similar to the problem i had! mine turned out to be stem seals and valve guides shot so oil was sitting on 2 pistons which resulted in the injectors being blocked so the fuel was not getting ignighted! mine stank of fuel! hope its not mate!!!

elabarate a little as it dont matter what the colour is of your car its what you want the polish to do???

would this fault come up then if a induction kit is fitted then?

same thing came up mn mine so would be interested too!! what does the acustic valve do and where is it if thats the problem???

did meam oil pump chain!!!:S

got my bottom end apart now and theres a little slack in the chain from the oil pump to the small plastic pulley! should there be a slight slack or is it all worth replacing as apart anyway???

no disrespect but i think someone from prodrive may know what there on about!!!i appriciatete i need the head of to reallly confirm its not rings! ive a few issues with the oil and over fulling.

wow what a day!im told my engine has had it by 2 garages now! i dont belive them! fred and 519 never heard of rings go! ive got a guy working for me who worked at prodrive so should know really! and dropped into guy running a clio as a rally car and he started it reved it to 6000 and said stem...

how is this done?