Thread: waterstains on black paint

Hi Landy, I have tried just about every thing thats on the market and never found a thing that worked until a mate put me onto Klasse polish.

To give you an idea how this stuff works. After one of the recent Aulro trips, I had a scratch from one end of the Rangie to the other, not deep enough to damage the paint.

Using Mequiar’s, it took 4 hours of hand and electric buffing to remove it.

Next Aulro trip and two scratches down the other side.

This time using the Klasse ALL - IN - ONE, with an electric buff, it took 15 minutes but there is a bit on the rear panel that I didn’t fully remove so another 5 minutes work should do it.

My wife’s black Astra had a bird crap stain right in the middle of the bonnet. It was there for about 18 months and no matter what I used, it would not budge.

Than along came Klasse and two buffs ( about 30 seconds work ) and it’s gone.

I buy my cleaning and polishing gear from Eclipse Detailing Supplies in Sydney. They specialise in mail orders, and you can look up their gear at

http://www.eclipsedetailing.com.au

Cheers

OK, here is what i suggest.

you can by a polish called T-Cut in different colours its made by Carplan, you can get it from Kmart and autobarn i think.

It is brilliant.
Now you have heard all the other suggestions but here is why i think this may work.
I used to work in a panel shop as a painter, so i know what paint like and hates..
We had a Saab convertible. Nice car and it was Silver. Well in the time we owned it it was run into 2 times by a 4wd and a commodore. both times the paint was buffed and mild marks were left. So i got out the trusty T-cut and went to work. in no time you could not tell the car had been hit.
We had 2 quotes for both jobs and both times the damage was over $1000, i fixed it with a simple $25 bottle of T-cut.... the paint was not damaged just marked.

Next example.
I bought a XM falcon about 2 years ago. The paint was dull, chalky would be a good way to describe it.
1 day's work with the T-cat and the paint was brought back to shiney with no marks.

It works. it does not damage paint and it comes in lots of colours to suit your cars colour. It is a polish and as it has colour in it, it fills scratches and chips with colour so you cant see them.

I would have no hessitation to use it on a bnrand new car if it had marks.... Why??? the Dealers do...... the polish they use is the same as T-cut..... this i know as a paint rep told me many years back.

Give it a go, worse case you are the same as what it is now....

Steve

Thanks Simon, Drivesafe, Clarkie and others.
Keep the ideas coming boys,I will try all the easy ones first ops: ops: ops:
I will get my bro to chase up that Klasse polish,he has several panelshop mates,hense him buying a smashed XR6 to do up.
VINEGAR sounds good,CHEAP AND EASY, and if it doesnt work I can put it on my chips [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
The problem using any T Cut on a dark vehicle is the swirls etc that you can create,my Bro has allready warned me.
I can imagine she is going to cop a few sctatches from branches 2morrow,maybee the cut/polish is looking good :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Thanks
Andrew

Hi all,
I thought the Disco's in particular had a thick clear coat over the paint. When I scratched mine with a branch down one side I could get rid of part of it, but not very successfully. I gave up and lived with the scratch in the clearcoat.

Dumb question, would ordinary soap, (as in carwash), and water soften and remove your stains?
Most carwashes in Toowoomba leave similar stains, due in part I suspect to bore water, and I just wipe it over with a damp cloth at home and towel it off for a spot free finish.

Trev.

Years ago it was comon to buff really flash Dulon paint jobs with Tcut or corn flower after bufing with compound but there is way better stuff now. 2k is easy to scratch with fine marks when cutting particularly a black car. Get a waffle pad and some ferecular and and a swirl remover you won't be sorry. A waffle pad won't take anyd paint off and won't sratch it.