Fading Gelcoat

Get advice on painting and polishing your Midas, and making those all important repairs to that precious shell! Got an idea on Styling?

Moderator: The Midas Forum Staff

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Rich » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:28 pm

Update..

I ended up getting hold of some G3 and spent yesterday wrestling with the buffer, I'm impressed with the results and I've now got a shiny Midas!

Rich
User avatar
Rich
 
Posts: 1250
Joined: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:27 am
Location: Devon

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Stuart » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:46 pm

Now you just need to keep it out of the sun ;)

I have the same problem with the GRP panels on my motorhome too, I have shares in Autoglym super resin, keeping the shine is rather time consuming, and the gel-coat will be getting ever thinner each time.
User avatar
Stuart
 
Posts: 1719
Joined: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:29 pm
Location: Derbyshire

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Rich » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:38 pm

I've polished it up with Meguairs which really comes up well, any idea how thick gelcoat is in comparison with paint?
User avatar
Rich
 
Posts: 1250
Joined: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:27 am
Location: Devon

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Hans Efde » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:57 pm

It's much thicker than paint. My car is missing a few chips her and there. A wild guess is that the thickness is around 1mm.
Cheers, Hans
User avatar
Hans Efde
 
Posts: 1731
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:11 pm
Location: IJlst, Netherlands

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Rich » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:01 pm

Thanks Hans, more or less what I thought. I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's been cut back as the finish was pretty good with just the odd swirl when I picked up the car, it's got much worse as it's been sat on the drive concentrating on the mechanical side of things.

Time to change my avatar I think....
User avatar
Rich
 
Posts: 1250
Joined: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:27 am
Location: Devon

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby johnnyfixit » Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:57 pm

looks better with the polished bonnet on now :D

getting there wor kid as we say up ere
Image
User avatar
johnnyfixit
 
Posts: 232
Joined: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:15 pm
Location: North DURHAM

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Rich » Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:28 pm

johnnyfixit wrote:looks better with the polished bonnet on now :D

getting there wor kid as we say up ere



It's booked in for it's MOT on Wednesday!

Fingers crossed....
User avatar
Rich
 
Posts: 1250
Joined: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:27 am
Location: Devon

Re: Fading Gelcoat

Postby Bluto » Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:48 pm

G3 is a heavy cutting compound, ideal for removing heavy swirls/scratches, but not ideal for light swirl removal on gel coat.

I would be tempted to use CarLack which will remove some of the light swirls and of course not hologram.

If your going to do it to remove all the swirls, clay, ipa, compound, polish, ipa, protect.
Bluto
 
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:50 pm
Location: manchester

Previous

Return to Paint, Detailing, Bodywork and Styling

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests

cron