Glaze for old single stage paint
Discussion
Hi, I'm looking for some advise on what best to use on metallic single stage paint. It's on an old American car, although it has been resprayed once as far as I can tell, and it's a fairly dark metallic orange.
When I got it the paint on the horizontal surfaces was quite faded, on the sides reasonably good. I clayed the car, polished the faded surfaces carefully with t-cut, and then Autoglym SRP on the whole car. This made a pretty big improvement which I was pretty pleased with.
What I notice now is whilst the surface is still very smooth the gloss and colour fades, if I re polish with SRP it darkens the colour and brings back the gloss. It seems to have a wetting effect on the old paint.
Would I be better using something like Meguiars #7 Show Car Glaze, would this better enhance the shine and colour of old single stage paint? And what if anything would I put on top of it?
thank you
When I got it the paint on the horizontal surfaces was quite faded, on the sides reasonably good. I clayed the car, polished the faded surfaces carefully with t-cut, and then Autoglym SRP on the whole car. This made a pretty big improvement which I was pretty pleased with.
What I notice now is whilst the surface is still very smooth the gloss and colour fades, if I re polish with SRP it darkens the colour and brings back the gloss. It seems to have a wetting effect on the old paint.
Would I be better using something like Meguiars #7 Show Car Glaze, would this better enhance the shine and colour of old single stage paint? And what if anything would I put on top of it?
thank you
To be honest, a glaze is only ever going to be a temporary fix - you are better of with a light machine polish to "exfoliate" the top layer of paint, exposing fresh colour underneath. A good protective product will then help block UV and assist in preventing premature degradation in the future.
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