2012 Neutral Newbie October 22, 2012 Share October 22, 2012 (edited) Fren just bought a 2006 car, both AA and trusted regular workshop assessed it and said the 45,000km mileage was genuine based on their inspection. The puzzling part is that the paintwork looks really shiit! It looks like someone has used dish washing detergent to bath the car, it looks almost matt! There are hairline scratches, or rather fine cracks here n there. Workshop said need a respray coz no amount or wax + polish can salvage the shine Any advice if there are other methods to restore the shine? Many thanks in advance. The quote fir respray is about 1.5k for the forester. reasonable? Edited October 22, 2012 by 2012 ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic October 22, 2012 Share October 22, 2012 (edited) On 10/22/2012 at 1:05 AM, 2012 said: Fren just bought a 2006 car, both AA and trusted regular workshop assessed it and said the 45,000km mileage was genuine based on their inspection. The puzzling part is that the paintwork looks really shiit! It looks like someone has used dish washing detergent to bath the car, it looks almost matt! There are hairline scratches, or rather fine cracks here n there. Workshop said need a respray coz no amount or wax + polish can salvage the shine Any advice if there are other methods to restore the shine? Many thanks in advance. The quote fir respray is about 1.5k for the forester. reasonable? 1.5k sounds about there to me. If you want to try, bring to a professional groomer (has to be one that can do paint restoration/paint correction, not they typical carpark groomer type) to see if they can restore the paint. Will prob cost less than that respray. Don't be surprise that ppl use dish washing detergent to wash their cars, i've seen it a few times liao. Yesterday i just saw someone use bathing soap to wash his car (with rainwater also). https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...6959&type=1 Edited October 22, 2012 by Mockngbrd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoverofCar 6th Gear October 22, 2012 Share October 22, 2012 want swee swee....respray is the best option lah...if paint is beyond cure.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFV_V200 3rd Gear October 22, 2012 Share October 22, 2012 google "amazing glaze" the shop in Sing min area. I have been using them since day 1. are they the answer to your car? I am not sure, I suggest you drive your car there and let them have a look. All I can say... I am totally satisfied with their work. couple of occasion my friend asked me did I respray my car. :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pisces69 6th Gear October 22, 2012 Share October 22, 2012 On 10/22/2012 at 1:05 AM, 2012 said: Fren just bought a 2006 car, both AA and trusted regular workshop assessed it and said the 45,000km mileage was genuine based on their inspection. The puzzling part is that the paintwork looks really shiit! It looks like someone has used dish washing detergent to bath the car, it looks almost matt! There are hairline scratches, or rather fine cracks here n there. Workshop said need a respray coz no amount or wax + polish can salvage the shine Any advice if there are other methods to restore the shine? Many thanks in advance. The quote fir respray is about 1.5k for the forester. reasonable? Look around fr better quote. If u paint same colour its cheaper. Since paint so bad it might need alot of prep work n increase e price. Let us know what u managed to find. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2012 Neutral Newbie October 23, 2012 Author Share October 23, 2012 Thank you bros for all your advice!! Will be bring the car to these places for quote. Be back after finding solution Maybe go NAFA or LaSelle let them do graphics FOC, I let them put their creativity on the car but don't charge them, if my fren don't mind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TatteredTorn Clutched October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 You can get your friend to drive over to Imperial 1 and let them take a look. They do paint restoration works. You can weigh the cost benefits of the following solutions: 1) Paint restoration 2) Respray entire car 3) Complete car wrap If you source thorough enough, you will be able to find spray paint workshops that do entire cars for a cheap cheap price, but no guarantee on the quality lah... A good estimate for whole car respray will be $2000. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happily1986 5th Gear October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 On 10/22/2012 at 2:38 AM, Mockngbrd said: 1.5k sounds about there to me. If you want to try, bring to a professional groomer (has to be one that can do paint restoration/paint correction, not they typical carpark groomer type) to see if they can restore the paint. Will prob cost less than that respray. Don't be surprise that ppl use dish washing detergent to wash their cars, i've seen it a few times liao. Yesterday i just saw someone use bathing soap to wash his car (with rainwater also). https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...6959&type=1 from the description, the lack of lustre suggests the clear coat is gone. the cracks and hairline scratches described therefore suggest that these are lacerations on the base coat. how to restore? makes more sense to sand down and do one proper coat and then one clear coat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nzy Twincharged October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 10:35 AM, Happily1986 said: from the description, the lack of lustre suggests the clear coat is gone. the cracks and hairline scratches described therefore suggest that these are lacerations on the base coat. how to restore? makes more sense to sand down and do one proper coat and then one clear coat. Normally clearcoat gone still can save la. Just that it will become dull again very soon unless you keep waxing the area. Recently polished a very old civic with the clearcoat gone in some areas. After polishing I used opticoat to protect the paint and now it looks glossy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava 5th Gear October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 U can try REVOL Carz Makeover at 6267 9331 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happily1986 5th Gear October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 12:03 PM, Nzy said: Normally clearcoat gone still can save la. Just that it will become dull again very soon unless you keep waxing the area. Recently polished a very old civic with the clearcoat gone in some areas. After polishing I used opticoat to protect the paint and now it looks glossy. your opticoat is as good as a clear coat? you still got to salvage your gg base coat too, remember? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nzy Twincharged October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 12:45 PM, Happily1986 said: your opticoat is as good as a clear coat? you still got to salvage your gg base coat too, remember? Almost. 2 months so far. Still beading well and glossy. The base coat is still there. Unless you mean its so bad that you can see the primer or metal already. If its just dull then it should still be ok. Now trying to see how long it can last. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2012 Neutral Newbie October 23, 2012 Author Share October 23, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 1:00 PM, Nzy said: Almost. 2 months so far. Still beading well and glossy. The base coat is still there. Unless you mean its so bad that you can see the primer or metal already. If its just dull then it should still be ok. Now trying to see how long it can last. Hi bro, you got PM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spkentchai Neutral Newbie October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 nice information...how about getting company like CS2 to do it? more ex? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picanto 3rd Gear October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 2:26 PM, Spkentchai said: nice information...how about getting company like CS2 to do it? more ex? might as well go for respray option Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picanto 3rd Gear October 23, 2012 Share October 23, 2012 On 10/22/2012 at 1:05 AM, 2012 said: Fren just bought a 2006 car, both AA and trusted regular workshop assessed it and said the 45,000km mileage was genuine based on their inspection. The puzzling part is that the paintwork looks really shiit! It looks like someone has used dish washing detergent to bath the car, it looks almost matt! There are hairline scratches, or rather fine cracks here n there. Workshop said need a respray coz no amount or wax + polish can salvage the shine Any advice if there are other methods to restore the shine? Many thanks in advance. The quote fir respray is about 1.5k for the forester. reasonable? why not take a few pics and let us see how bad it is? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2012 Neutral Newbie October 23, 2012 Author Share October 23, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 2:29 PM, Picanto said: why not take a few pics and let us see how bad it is? I took the pics but they don't show up clearly as the car is in dark blue Blame the camera man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pisces69 6th Gear October 24, 2012 Share October 24, 2012 On 10/23/2012 at 10:25 AM, TatteredTorn said: You can get your friend to drive over to Imperial 1 and let them take a look. They do paint restoration works. You can weigh the cost benefits of the following solutions: 1) Paint restoration 2) Respray entire car 3) Complete car wrap If you source thorough enough, you will be able to find spray paint workshops that do entire cars for a cheap cheap price, but no guarantee on the quality lah... A good estimate for whole car respray will be $2000. Last time i respray my corona whole car same metallic colour only $700 plus incl a couple of dents. Shop around cos some ws not much jobs so sell cheap better than all workers sit n tok kok. Finish was pretty good. No defects at all. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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