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    Like Thomas said, i don`t want to spend all day doing it, but I also don`t want to spend 15 bucks in shipping for an 11 dollar pad when I have nothing else on their site to order.

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    If you do buy it, I`d sure get more than one (of any given pad).

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    Re: Need some help with bad paint.....on the cheap

    I guess that 20 year old truck has really great paint with a lot of spiderweb scratches. The paint underneath looks great. ANyway, I started this project today. Working on the hood with 101 and orange pad. Upon further inspection, the paint has crazing, bug juice damage, some scratches on the hood that are through the paint. Don`t get me wrong, it looks `better`, if you can believe that. Lots of crazing....and there are some quarter sized areas where the crazing is concentrated so much that its almost white. Am I wrong to think that this simply needs a repaint if it is to be `good` paint? This is 13 year old paint. Waxed twice in its whole life and spent a lot of time exposed to the sun in Texas.



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    Re: Need some help with bad paint.....on the cheap

    brazosdog02- I believe you that it`s looking much better. Whether that`ll be good enough, only you can say.

    Yeah, to look "good" in the usual sense that`ll need repainted, and full repaints of decent quality aren`t cheap.

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    Re: Need some help with bad paint.....on the cheap

    Well, Im done. I don`t have pictures, but I ended up going over the hood with Megs 101 and black wool, yellow pad, orange pad. After that, the good parts of the paint really cleaned up. The crazing, chips, and damaged areas obviously did not, but they are a lot better. Then I used HD Polish with black or gray pad, and then finished with HD Poxy on a red pad I believe. Anyway, the sides of the truck look prettty good. But, I learned a lot here:

    1.) I didn`t screw up the paint and feel confident in my DA Polisher to use these products on a vehicle with good paint.
    2.) Wax on this truck just 3 more times in its life would have likely preserved the paint and prevented all of this.
    3.) You can get the paint a LOT better anyway
    4.) There is no substitute for HALFWAY DECENT efforts to maintain paint on a vehicle.

    Plus, it was a bit of fun to watch a dull finish come back.

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    Re: Need some help with bad paint.....on the cheap

    brazosdog02- Sounds like it was a very good overall experience, congrats on a job well-done.

 

 
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