Complete respray damage!

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Tripper
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Post Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:31 pm

Hi Zoners,

I have made the bigest mistake of all time!!! :x

Just had a new respray to my cabby, all was good until i got over excited and used a electric polisher mop. This has given my new paint job swirls all over!!! :cry:

How can i remove the swirls...are there and 3M products out there..?
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Post Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:35 pm

Could be worse when we was younger at my dads mates spray garage we was getting a little high and we didnt wanna get caught so grabbed the air freshener and sprayed it about and well he painted the cars and it fooked it up and he had to paint the cars twice in the end i still havent told him it was me
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Post Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:38 pm

How old is the paint? you could have done lots of damage, do you have a PTG?

Be worth checking or getting a proto check how much clearcoat you actually have left, first.
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Post Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:49 pm

Take it back to the person who painted it for you, he will know what to do.....
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Post Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:42 am

m_jermyn wrote:Take it back to the person who painted it for you, he will know what to do.....
Or like a lot of body shops, f**k it up even more.

Take it to a detailer, to remove the swirls and restore a shine to it. 3M do indeed make products for this job, infact they are my choice of product when doing such a job.
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Post Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:03 pm

SRP by hand.

Going to take time, but it is cheaper.