How soon can you polish fresh paintwork?

[scz4]

I bought a painted spoiler which arrived on Friday. Being a red car the spoiler isn't quite as bright as the rest of the car so I was going to take my polishing machine too it, but worried the paint is too fresh, it was sprayed 10 days ago.

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[scz4]

Thanks guys, here's some pics.

Car is a Honda S2000, paint code R510. It's a flat colour, so no laquer.

It looks a lot worse in the garage than when I roll the car out, in fact once the car is outside it almost looks acceptable. The car has just had a full paint correction which probably doesn't help.

I'm wondering if it's just to do with the angles, when I turn the spoiler face to be the same angle as the boot lid it doesn't look nearly as bad. Never had a red car before and wondering if this is normal.

To be fair the spoiler was an foreign ebay special so I knew I was taking a risk. £60 vs £450 Honda want for it. The quality and fit of the spoiler is exceptional. May get it resprayed locally, but worried it will just be the same.

Edited by scz4 on Monday 18th June 09:04

[scz4]

JulesB said:

Sorry to break the news to you but the car does have lacquer on it bud!

Yeah that is the wrong colour as I said, get it repainted! Where are you based?

Fair enough, I always thought non metailic colours didn't have lacquer, but when I think about it they must

Based in Aberdeen.

I might drop it off at a paintshop this, would rather not give them the car though, but that may be a bad idea.

[scz4]

What's a fair price to have the spoiler resprayed?

[scz4]

Spoke to the bodyshop Honda use in my area, they also all of Porsche's and Land Rover and have a very good reputation in the area. He costed the job at £220 as there are two shades of paint code R510, which I don't understand, surely a paint code should be unique. So basically they have to test both paints on swabs, then paint the spoiler. At that price I'll save up for a genuine Honda. Lesson learnt! Might try another spray shop, bound to be cheaper, but I'd trust these guys to do it properly. Although he couldn't gurantee the result which isn't reassuring.