Polishing fibreglass.

[robsco]

Hi all.

Picked up my first TVR the other day, and got the chance to wash it yesterday. After drying off etc, I aimed to have a go at alleviating the swirls by applying some polish. As an Autoglym fan, I don't tend to use any other products so SRP was my weapon of choice. It has, however, left a greasy residue behind rather than buffing up like it should. Is it not suitable for plastic, and if not what should I be using in its place?

Thanks.

[robsco]

Anyone?

[MadRob6]

Don't know much about it but I would've thought the greasy residue was from crap embedded in the paint. That's the only time I've had SRP behave strangely, a quick going over with a clay bar soon had it behaving normally.

I wouldn't worry too much about the fact the car's fibreglass as you're polishing the paint not the fibreglass. I've used it on a fibreglass bumper before without any issues and that required a whole lot of polishing to get it looking good.

[robsco]

Right, excellent. So just a case of a clay bar, some proper lubricant and then a shedload of elbow grease. Thank you. Oh, and your 944 thread on Reader's Cars is brilliant, best of luck to you.

[blitzracing]

Use Farecla G10. Its an ultra fine cutting compound that leave no residue, and does not into "dig" into the clear coat, or leave a haze behind. Dogs nuts.

Edited by blitzracing on Thursday 7th July 13:01