Help! Bad water marks!

[vrsmxtb]

My classic red MX5 has been sorned in a garage since November. I started her up today and rolled outside to check all was well. Unfortunately there has been a leak in the garage roof despite the council replacing it, and the boot and upper rear wings of my car are covered in water marks, as bad as a big puddle with lots of splashes and drips. The paint is really dull, flat and faded pinky where water has sat on it. The car has had a respray in the past I think so not sure how good a job or quality of paint it was.

I am taking the car to get the bumpers resprayed soon, is there anything DIY I could try or maybe just add this to the bodyshop bill? Very annoyed I didn't cover the car, although it did get a good coating of carnauba wax before winter storage.

[Bezerk]

The water marks should be removed if you clay the car and re-apply pre-wax paint cleaner.

If not, or the paint fade is really bad, ask a pro detailer to machine polish it.

[domster]

Just get the bodyshop to 'mop it' when it is in. This is machine polishing of the paint and will cut the pink paint back to a nice red if they do it properly. If they don't, the red will return to a pink after a week or two through drop back (glaze oils used in the polishing process evaporating) or they'll hologram it to hell (not finishing it down properly).

Get a good bodyshop and you'll be fine. And you could have a go yourself (machine polisher kits would be about 100-150 GBP).