Pogweasel. Is there a cure?

[warren t claim]

In negotiations to buy a 1990 Kraut car with faded water based red paint. Sadly it's pogweasel pink on several panels and therefore I was wondering if there's any magic potions to sort the problem out?

[DaveAspley]

3m fast cut plus cutting paste and finish Polish, it's 25-30 quid a tub and you'll need two types. Expensive but it lasts.

[Station]

6 hours, 2500 wet and dry, cutting compound and your best wanking arm.

 

You can utilise my garage if you need to do it somewhere, I don't use it through the week?

[DaveAspley]

http://www.theultimatefinish.co.uk/3m/perfect-it-iii-extra-fine-compound-yellow.aspx?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=MerchantCentre&variant=4565&gclid=CPvtp_CQyc4CFWgo0wodVdsNug

[DaveAspley]

Or.... Keep it wet constantly....

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

However, if the red had faded under a coat of clear coat lacquer, you are royally bolloxed.

[2MB]

Just pretend it's got a flat pink wrap

[Vantman]

Why bother polishing it,keep it as it is,my 1990 Saab gets more attention like it is than all my polished cars ever did.

 

[warren t claim]

However, if the red had faded under a coat of clear coat lacquer, you are royally bolloxed.

How can I tell?

[beko1987]

your best wanking arm.

 

You can utilise my garage if you need to do it somewhere, I don't use it through the week?

Snigger

[beko1987]

How can I tell?

When it doesnt polish out!

[hairnet]

spend the money on pez instead

[Timewaster]

I would have thought a wet finger would show if it would polish. Wet the surface and if it turns red and dries back to pink then it should respond to a buffing.

[warren t claim]

It was a pretty expensive car when new so is it likely to have lacquer?

[Rusty_Rocket]

If it's a non-metallic car, it shouldn't be lacquered.  Unless it's seen a repair, of course..

[Timewaster]

Some 90s Peugeots had clear coat over straight colours.

 

For some reason my red 405 bucked the pogweasel trend and turned orange!

[wuvvum]

My red 166 pogweaseled under the lacquer.

[purplebargeken]

The Golf has lacquer. This is fucked and needs to be removed. It isn't PW'd though. 

[crapcarcollector]

Bit of wet n dry (1200 grit) in a corner tucked away, if it turns red (used wet), winner winner chicken dinner it'll polish up. If is doesn't, it lacquered and you are knackered.

 

 

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[Mad Cyril]

I used to polish mine with baby oil. Worked a treat and lasted a couple of weeks.
(Certainly long enough to sell it...)

[warren t claim]

A quick search has brought up a Pistonheads thread which recommends machine polishing, clay bars, carnauba waxing and using various expensive Meguiars products which sounds both expensive and time consuming.

[Pillock]

As Autoshite is simply Pistonheads for skinflints (allegedly), you can recreate that with peanut butter, blu-tak, furniture polish and your wanking arm.

 

Seriously, if the paint is rough to the touch and flat it will just need a cut and polish. If it's still perfectly shiny but has gone pink then you have lacquer on top and that's not worth bothering with, you need to strip and repaint. Same as wetting it or 1200grit and see if it changes the colour, you're just trying to tell whether you're working with the faded paint layer or whether anything you put on it will be blocked by lacquer.

 

Well, I say not worth bothering with - if you've just found a slightly pink BMW M5 for £150 then that might be different.

[Parky]

You need that "Detailing World" guy who checked the thickness of the paint on his Astra before applying 57 coats of whale jizz for ultimate protection. He would sort it out no problem, except he would take six months to do it.

 

The machine polish and fancy potions ideas are all spot on but this is Autoshite, surely you have a 15 year old half empty bottle of crusty T-Cut in your shed??? That and some old pants for application and polishing off and job jobbed!

[Mad Cyril]

I eventually cured mine with 1200 then 1500 wet & dry, Farecla G3 then G10, Meguiars paint cleaner then two coats of 'Wolf Chemicals Nano Hard Body' (that cost an absolute fecking fortune for a gob-full but I eventually did five cars with that gob-full).

Took me a full day but that was two years ago and it's all still red (VW Flash Red).


 

[Asimo]

That red-restoring Tcut works quite well on my pogweaseled-Dulux back door and on cars that aren't lacquered.

Wouldn't the lacquer be peeling if there was any?

[Bren]

Spray bodywork with back to black. Job done.

[Noel Tidybeard]

buy a bloo car

[Junkman]

Buy a beige one.

[Supernaut]

Buy a poo brown one.

[billyboy406v6]

Nato Green applied with a foam roller is the ultimate cure and quick/cheap !!!!!!!!