Making touch up spray shiny again?

[QBee]

Sorry chaps, muppet here.
Took my car on an airfield track day last summer, was warned to tape the front end as it was an operational air base, and known to be stony. Didn't bother. Got about 100 stone chips on the front of my pride and joy.
TVR in their wisdom used a white primer over fibreglass and under dark blue paint, and it's really soft too. So as you all know, it chips easily and the chips show badly.
I have done another one of the same track days, and as of last night the front of my car had about 300 stone chips. And looked a right mess.
So I thought sod it, got out my spray touch up paint, and sprayed it. Then got out the lacquer and lacquered it. Both nice and even, no runs, but...........

I know that the only true solution is a front end respray, and will have it done over the Winter.

Until then is there any way of getting more shine into the finish? It looks a bit matt at the moment. Still looks better than with all the stone chips.

[pearly]

Have you tried using a clay bar with plenty of water then polish?
Be warned not sure what effect it will have if laquer is very soft, as I have never tried it on freshly sprayed paint.

[MADMAX2]

go and buy colour wax from Halfrauds they have all shades 4 or 5 coats of wax and you will be pleasantly surprised

[QBee]

pearly said:

Have you tried using a clay bar with plenty of water then polish?
Be warned not sure what effect it will have if laquer is very soft, as I have never tried it on freshly sprayed paint.

No, I haven't. I didn't want to start polishing until i was sure there wasn't a different answer that required the car to be wax free.
I sprayed it, paint and lacquer, last night while it was still outside and I had got bored with doing the Coup de Grace.
Too windy to do any more today (spraying, not lawn mowing). Watched a UTube video which made it look like three coats of paint and three coats of lacquer were all you need, but this isn't the first time I have got this matt finish, despite lots of lacquer coats.
I don't have a clay bar, though i could easily pop to Halfrauds and get one this morning. Polish was the only thing I thought of.
Haven't got any more paint.
One can of touch up covers five coats on a roll cage (and the bedroom laminate floor) and three+ on the front of a Chimaera, by the way.

[Jonny cobra]

You have got to flat off the lacquer with 1200 grade wet and dry then polish it with a mop . It will be shiny then ..

JC

[QBee]

Jonny cobra said:

You have got to flat off the lacquer with 1200 grade wet and dry then polish it with a mop . It will be shiny then ..

JC

Thanks JC
Wet and dry - wet, or dry?
Mop is usually used for the kitchen floor.....presumably this is some king of eclectic drill attachment?

PS heard a Cobra, with a huge 60s Ford engine, being started up last week - blew my socks off (as I made the mistake of standing near the side of the car)

[Jonny cobra]

Make it wet add a small amount of washing up liquid in the water . Makes it work better . Its an electric polishing mop must keep it wet and add some G3 polishing compound . I used to set all the car alarms off as I drove past them in my cobra, Great fun .....


JC..