Car Polishing Advice

akboselk · March 7, 2013

Hi all

recently i had an accident and replaced two door panels . after that painter had completed the paint job and ask me to come back after two - three weeks for polish the painted area.

Same time he suggested to polish entire car . reason said, that there will be No colour differrences between newly painted and original paint

1) Is this good idea ? (or useless thing ? - because at the moment there is NO significant colour differrence)

2) Also when touch original pain area, I can feel there is a roughness and painter told those are small paint dots (sprayed particles) and will be ok after car polish.

Is there any method to remove those paint dots without polishing the car ?

Car is White colour.

thanks in advance

soulja · March 7, 2013

Nope.. You definitely have to go ahead with a cut and polish. What's the paint and lacquer used? If its Debeer, you can cut and polish the next day using Farecla G3 water based compound and polish. Which is very effective and does the job clean.

akboselk · March 7, 2013

ok thanks.

and did you mean that it should cut n polish entire car ? ( because few friends told it will remove the protective layer on original paint and is this true ?)

ramithad · March 7, 2013

polishing a car will only remove little bit on laquer coat which is transparent. if you cannot identify colour difference you dont need to pilsh rest of the area. if your car is older one, its possible to have a colour difference in original panels and painted ones. if car is bellow 2-3 years and if you are maintaining well by carefully washing and waxing you dont need to cut rest of the area.

newly painted panels will be first cut by 1500 paper with water and then by a cutting compound. then they will apply wax to bring the original look

Davy · March 7, 2013

The roughness you feel is due to overspray. If the painter had covered the other panels properly, this wouldn't have happened. Since it's too late for that now, I guess the only solution you have is to go for a mild cut and polish of the entire car.