90 Acura Legend fading badly on spoiler and mirrors

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Recently purchased 90 Acura Lgend Coupe. Original red paint. I'm planning on detailing soon but unsure what to use to attempt to restore faded red paint on rear spoiler and side mirrors. BTW, rear spoiler is soft plastic and mirrors are hard plastic. Both spoiler and mirrors are painted with original red paint but are faded somewhat. Short of repainting what would be some product I could try that I could buy locally here in Tulsa, because I'm leaving on a trip soon. P.S. The rest of the cars paint is in good shape!... Great Forum!!!... Any and all responses greatly appreciated!....Thanks! George
 
You can try to restore them. I have a friend with an 87 Grand National (black, if you didn't know), and the bumpers were severly faded. They were very chalky looking. He'd tried various things to restore them, but it was either useless or short-term. Anyway, I used some Medallion Paint Cleaner on them and it got rid of the chalkiness. Then I used some #7 and it brough out an amazing shine to where it matched the rest of the body. I topped it off with some Gold Class because that's what we were using on the car. I also did the same thing to the mirrors on my wife's 95 car. It has black-painted plastic mirror housings and they were pretty dull and faded. The Medallion Cleaner and some #7 had amazing results. I followed that up with #26 and it brought out a great gloss. There is still some minor staining on the paint that clay, bug&tar, and the cleaner (the cleaner is the only thing that had an effect) failed to remove, but it isn't that noticeable. They look substantially better and have a nice glossy shine to them now. At least try it before you try repainting...
 
Aurora40 you are correct one can polish paint that has faded and make it look ok. The problem is it will be very short lived.
 
Show some pictures and maybe we can help more!



There is a post here where someone in Austrailia was able to bring a faded car almost back to showroom condition. I don't know where the thread is now, but if someone can bring it back up, it might be of some help!



However, I remember some of the steps. You will have to be experienced in using a rotary buffer. They do wonders for cars if you know how to use them right. He used that along with claying and rotary buffer w/ Meguiars dual action polish. The results were astonishing. If he was able to bring back that car, which was faded for years in the hot Austrailian sun, I'm sure yours won't be a problem.
 
Andre, even before I used the polish, the color was much much better. The cleaner removed all the fading and chalkiness. It was a nice black after that. The polish just brought out more shine in it. The cleaner did the bulk of the improvement. Really, though, a polish is short-lived on good paint too. Applying a protectant after it helps extend the polish, but eventually it wears off. So I'm not really sure that's a short-coming.
 
Aurora40 said:
Andre, even before I used the polish, the color was much much better. The cleaner removed all the fading and chalkiness. It was a nice black after that. The polish just brought out more shine in it. The cleaner did the bulk of the improvement. Really, though, a polish is short-lived on good paint too. Applying a protectant after it helps extend the polish, but eventually it wears off. So I'm not really sure that's a short-coming.
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LOL I know all that. My point is after the finish starts to fail you can polish then wax or seal it and it will look perfect, than one day you look up and see that the paint is all faded again. When a paint finish starts to fail you can't stop it will only get worse in the long run.
 
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