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Re: faded paintwork

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Subject: Re: faded paintwork
From: Dean Rayner <dean_rayner@mac.com>
Date: 04 Mar 2002 13:01:30 +0000
On Monday, March 4, 2002 12:51 pm, John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a try once Saskia has reappeared on
>my driveway.  
>
>What do rubbing compound and t-cut do to paintwork to help
>restore it?

Basically they both grind a layer of paint off, exposing fresh, unfaded paint.

Use with great care on ridges and edges of panels, the paint is thinner and 
easyer to rub through to the undercoat - bare metal!

Wax/polish stright away. Bare paint is vunerable.

Dean.

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