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Marshy
15th November 2008, 22:51
Hi all, I have recently bought an Ibiza in yellow, the bodywork is great, but unfortunately the previous owner didn't clean or polish it very often, so the roof in particular is faded quite badly and is quite noticable to me

Is there anything I can use to bring it back up? Are there any products/methods you can recommend to me? Or am I best off taking it to a professional?

Hopefully it can polish up, overwise I'll end up getting the whole car resprayed :panic:

Thanks :y:

Lee
Quik_Pug
15th November 2008, 23:15
Depends how faded it is. G3 Compound and a decent polish (AG SRP or similiar) will help which you could do by hand.

Otherwise you could pay someone to do a full paint correction with an orbital buffer :)
Marshy
16th November 2008, 09:36
Depends how faded it is. G3 Compound and a decent polish (AG SRP or similiar) will help which you could do by hand.

Otherwise you could pay someone to do a full paint correction with an orbital buffer :)

Thanks mate :) I think its beyond the point of hand polishing tbh.

Do you know roughly how much a full paint correction would cost?
Pieface
16th November 2008, 09:47
Depends entirely on the person you go to, can range from around £50 to a few thousand.
Marshy
16th November 2008, 09:53
Depends entirely on the person you go to, can range from around £50 to a few thousand.

Ok mate thanks :)
mattg
16th November 2008, 10:45
Could always bring it round mine one day and try some of my g3 with my electric buffer, got some decent polish here too, im sure we could bring it up better with us both on it:y:
Quik_Pug
16th November 2008, 11:05
Thanks mate :) I think its beyond the point of hand polishing tbh.

Do you know roughly how much a full paint correction would cost?

As mentioned depends on who you go too and how bad the paint really is :)
Marshy
16th November 2008, 13:09
Could always bring it round mine one day and try some of my g3 with my electric buffer, got some decent polish here too, im sure we could bring it up better with us both on it:y:

Cheers mate, yeah we can have a go at it, worth a try before I resort to a full respray at PDC ;)
Quik_Pug
16th November 2008, 13:48
def worth trying paint correction before respraying :)