Paint damaged by washing.

colino

What is it again when your going to finish off the surface of car paint? Have a guess, (or in your case google) at mixing clear-coat with its chemical activator and spraying the resultant laquer.

gilbert_and_sullivan

That looks like the result of leaving a too strong solution of standard TFR on the paint.

I've seen such results when cars have been soaked with industrial strength TFR, it should buff out with a mild cutting compound (T Cut if you must) and a wax polish will help afterwards, but i think the paint will never be quite the same again and will require regular waxing to stop the dull finish returning even with standard washing.

Daz2009

colino wrote: »

What is it again when your going to finish off the surface of car paint? Have a guess, (or in your case google) at mixing clear-coat with its chemical activator and spraying the resultant laquer.

Why would I want to google when I've spent the last 25 years spraying clear.
Let me spell it out for you oh expert,you do not spray clear over a polished paint finish.

colino

Do you think I would have? The first step was to mop it and see if there was enough colour on the car to take a finish, or it would need repainted, then it would be taken back to let the laquer adhere.
Please don't try and play top trumps in this game, I'd hazard a pretty sound guess I was refinishing cars before you were born.

Daz2009

colino wrote: »

Do you think I would have? The first step was to mop it and see if there was enough colour on the car to take a finish, or it would need repainted, then it would be taken back to let the laquer adhere.
Please don't try and play top trumps in this game, I'd hazard a pretty sound guess I was refinishing cars before you were born.

This is what you said before...." unless you laquer it over mopped red,"

That is just a totally wrong statement and if you had any experience in the auto paint industry you would know that.

How about you stop googling for answers on things you know nowt about,there's a good boy.;)

facade

I have mopped a matt pink vauxhall back to shiny red, and a chalky white one back to shiny white.

Vauxhall put just enough paint on so you can mop it once, there is no clear coat.

Put plenty of wax on the resulting finish because you can't mop it again, when I did ours for the second time (it was 15 though) I had to stop as I was starting to see primer through the paint

topdaddy_2

Daz2009 wrote: »

This is what you said before...." unless you laquer it over mopped red,"

That is just a totally wrong statement and if you had any experience in the auto paint industry you would know that.

How about you stop googling for answers on things you know nowt about,there's a good boy.;)

colino wrote: »

Do you think I would have? The first step was to mop it and see if there was enough colour on the car to take a finish, or it would need repainted, then it would be taken back to let the laquer adhere.
Please don't try and play top trumps in this game, I'd hazard a pretty sound guess I was refinishing cars before you were born.

So who does wee the furthest?:rotfl: