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Simondi
5th April 2009, 20:14
an afternoon spent washing & polishing.......ahhh

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/shoveduff/Car/DSC00780.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/shoveduff/Car/DSC00779.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/shoveduff/Car/DSC00778.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/shoveduff/Car/DSC00777.jpg
Tatts
5th April 2009, 20:22
Looking good!

What products did you use?
Simondi
5th April 2009, 21:38
Cheers.

Turtle Wax Extreme Nanotech Wash 'N' Wax Shampoo
Turtle Wax Colour Magic (over chips and scratches)
Meguiras NXT. Generation Spray Wax

and lots of elbow grease!!
majedm75
6th April 2009, 12:01
Good job! What blue color is she?:o
GERFIX
6th April 2009, 12:05
Nice job there Simon. And a timely reminder that I really need to be doing similar stuff to the ZT :o.
kevin
7th April 2009, 18:32
what do you think of the Turtle Wax Colour Magic as thinking of getting some for my bonnet owing to lots of stone chips
Simondi
7th April 2009, 20:53
It does'nt do a bad job of coveing small scratches & chips. I've got a nasty scratch on my rear bumper where some careless NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- caught me in a car park. A liberal amount of colour magic and lots of elbow grease cover it nicely.
Dave***t
8th April 2009, 07:29
A possibly better solution to stone chips and still not splashing out as far as a respray is Dr. Colorchip - if you do a search you'll find plenty of info.

I had a go with it at the weekend and although it isn't quite miraculous, it really is pretty magic.

Good stuff btw, SimonGodfrey - that's a beautiful colour, esp. in the last photo!
kevin
8th April 2009, 15:09
A possibly better solution to stone chips and still not splashing out as far as a respray is Dr. Colorchip - if you do a search you'll find plenty of info.

I had a go with it at the weekend and although it isn't quite miraculous, it really is pretty magic.

Good stuff btw, SimonGodfrey - that's a beautiful colour, esp. in the last photo!

got some dr colorchip did not come out to good may need more then one covering or im not doing it right.
stocktake
8th April 2009, 15:23
got some dr colorchip did not come out too good may need more then one covering or im not doing it right.
That must be quite few of us then :( not over impressed.
deano78
8th April 2009, 18:00
I've still got some of this under the stairs I havent touched. i'll give a whirl over the holidays. What did you not like about it?
stocktake
8th April 2009, 18:32
Basically, It's a big tin of touchup paint !
Dave***t
9th April 2009, 08:55
Basically, It's a big tin of touchup paint !

Yes, but it's touch up paint that it's pretty easy to get only in the stone chip and nowhere else - to me that makes it pretty useful. It doesn't completely fill the chips to the level of surrounding paint, so I'd imagine that repeated uses might be a good thing (I've only used it once).

It isn't a substitute for a respray, but putting colour matched paint into stone chips and nowhere else has got to be an improvement over simply staining damaged areas with coloured polish and/or filling them with coloured wax.

Still, can't have everyone agreeing about everything, that'd be boring :D
stocktake
9th April 2009, 09:03
Still, can't have everyone agreeing about everything, that'd be boring :D


How true Dave, just to me a little expensive as opposed to a mg touch up pen, as you say doesn't seem to fill the chip, maybe over time and many applications. :shrug: