my alloys are pretty clean actually, the red calipers are a bit grubby though, and the drums on the back could do with a lick of paint:)

only downside is i have work from thursday - sunday, so i wont be able to do the rest of my car until monday now, damn, still, i can think about why im doing the work,
corsa, corsa, corsa, corsa, corsa

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im probably easy to please then, seeing as it would probably take all of you an induction kit, exhaust, solenoids and a flip paint job to be imprssed eh, am i right? :)

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finished, and i have to say, it looks way better

well, its taken me about an hour to totally remove the CORSA and all residual mess, wash, let dry, and then get Tcut ing, the paint is now one tone, brighter red and its cleaned all the crap marks off, i think ill do the whole car regardless of how long it takes, this stuff has really impressed me :D

im probably easy to please then, seeing as it would probably take all of you an induction kit, exhaust, solenoids and a flip paint job to be imprssed eh, am i right? :)

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ah well, patience is a virtue

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moneys a bit tight for a bodyshop trip, also the car isnt taxed or insred at the moment, road isnt a possibility :(

luckily i have a nice field sized garden to rag about until i have enough to insure (ripoff) the damn thing, yay,

i have rang 3 or 4 car shops and they all say that a coat of Tcut on the whole car will sort it right, so im off to get some Tcut

it will take you hours with t cut..good luck
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moneys a bit tight for a bodyshop trip, also the car isnt taxed or insred at the moment, road isnt a possibility :(

luckily i have a nice field sized garden to rag about until i have enough to insure (ripoff) the damn thing, yay,

i have rang 3 or 4 car shops and they all say that a coat of Tcut on the whole car will sort it right, so im off to get some Tcut


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take it to your local bodyshop and get the whole panel buffed with some g3 that will sort it..

You could always use an item from the Meguiars range - there very very good at returning the original colour to a car.

I can't just remember the name of the particular item tho

Available from larkspeed

Tcut doesn't make your paint lighter than the original colour, it just removes the dullness.

I have the same problem... i think i could blend it in, but would the new paint under the badges re-fade slower thwn the rest of the car?

try some grinding wax, you know what I mean. take as mild as you can, so that the particles are as small as possible. so it wont scratch surface.
go in to some good store and tell your story, they will know what you need.

i was told Tcut yea, but was alos told it will make the whole of the car a lighter shade of red, would there not be anything that could richen up the red of the whole car?

Use a cut back agent on the whole of the car and it may help slightly something like Mer.

is there anything i can do to make the paint colours blend in, as its obviously not sunfaded or anything, its bright red underneath, whereas the rest of the car has done that
'slightly pinky red but not noticeable until you see it against brand new red'
that just about every old corsa ive seen has done.

helpmeplease

Ta