Okay looking for any and all opinions on how to proceed. I've dabbled a bit with the PC and had some good results with MIP and FPII and Zaino on my cars but I keep coming back to the wife's 993 uncertain as to what to do.
Some background: We picked this car up a year ago. It was a steal and we plan on owning it for the long haul. The biggest problem with the car when we got it was it's finish. It had spent at least the last couple of years outside, uncovered, beachside in Florida. While the finish wasn't faded it was definitely stressed from UV exposure.
We had the car professionally detailed (before I found out about this site so I can't say for sure what products were used) and the guy did a good enought job that from 2 feet the car looked new. He told me that a lot of paint came off and to avoid sun exposure for the first couple of weeks.
A few months later I did the Zaino route and I've kept it up since then. The car is used a few times a week as my wifes daily driver and when not in use it sits behind my '84 at the front of our long (but not quite long enough, single car garage. A new 3 car garage is in the works this year). I originally kept the car covered consistently with one of the silver Porsche car covers. It didn't look the softest but I made sure the car was clean (relative when compared to what Accumulator would call clean) when it was on.
Fast forward to Thanksgiving. I'd been noticing more and more maring and something finally had to be done. Upon close inspection, it seemed like many of the deeper scratches I'd recognized as having been there from day one while others were a lot more shallow and could have been more recent. It's all hard for me to tell. Anyway, by now I'd found Autopia, puchased a PC and decided to polish her with MIP and FPII and then do the whole Zaino deal ending with Z-8. The results were great 90% of the maring I'd seen in bright light was gone. I'd taken off some paint but I was happy with the results:
I was still concerned with the cover so I decided to buy a soft flannel one to use under the silver cover. Unfortunately, it took a couple of weeks for the cover to arrive and I couldn't help but think that during that time a bit of the maring had returned. Now all of this is subjective in that under most light it still looks great from a couple of feet.
Over the past couple of weeks I'd worked on my first black car and that set my focus a lot closer than a couple of feet. With the black car I was zooming in to within a foot and managed to achieve a real mirror finish.
So I went back to the 993 and this time under the flourescent garage lighting took another look. To my horror this is what I saw:
So the question becomes what do I do if anything to try and correct it. The whole car is covered with this type of maring. I can't really say that I see a pattern that relates to the application of the cover and some of the scratches are 6 to 8 inches long while many are under an inch.
I know that some of the have been there for a while but their edges are all still pretty sharp. I have gone back and tried to address everything I do but my '84 which is treated similarly (though used a lot less often) has little to none of this problem.
I'm also getting a foamgun so I'm committed to doing what I can to at least mitigate the situation. I need some serious advice though on what I do from here.
Thanks a lot!
Some background: We picked this car up a year ago. It was a steal and we plan on owning it for the long haul. The biggest problem with the car when we got it was it's finish. It had spent at least the last couple of years outside, uncovered, beachside in Florida. While the finish wasn't faded it was definitely stressed from UV exposure.
We had the car professionally detailed (before I found out about this site so I can't say for sure what products were used) and the guy did a good enought job that from 2 feet the car looked new. He told me that a lot of paint came off and to avoid sun exposure for the first couple of weeks.
A few months later I did the Zaino route and I've kept it up since then. The car is used a few times a week as my wifes daily driver and when not in use it sits behind my '84 at the front of our long (but not quite long enough, single car garage. A new 3 car garage is in the works this year). I originally kept the car covered consistently with one of the silver Porsche car covers. It didn't look the softest but I made sure the car was clean (relative when compared to what Accumulator would call clean) when it was on.
Fast forward to Thanksgiving. I'd been noticing more and more maring and something finally had to be done. Upon close inspection, it seemed like many of the deeper scratches I'd recognized as having been there from day one while others were a lot more shallow and could have been more recent. It's all hard for me to tell. Anyway, by now I'd found Autopia, puchased a PC and decided to polish her with MIP and FPII and then do the whole Zaino deal ending with Z-8. The results were great 90% of the maring I'd seen in bright light was gone. I'd taken off some paint but I was happy with the results:
I was still concerned with the cover so I decided to buy a soft flannel one to use under the silver cover. Unfortunately, it took a couple of weeks for the cover to arrive and I couldn't help but think that during that time a bit of the maring had returned. Now all of this is subjective in that under most light it still looks great from a couple of feet.
Over the past couple of weeks I'd worked on my first black car and that set my focus a lot closer than a couple of feet. With the black car I was zooming in to within a foot and managed to achieve a real mirror finish.
So I went back to the 993 and this time under the flourescent garage lighting took another look. To my horror this is what I saw:
So the question becomes what do I do if anything to try and correct it. The whole car is covered with this type of maring. I can't really say that I see a pattern that relates to the application of the cover and some of the scratches are 6 to 8 inches long while many are under an inch.
I know that some of the have been there for a while but their edges are all still pretty sharp. I have gone back and tried to address everything I do but my '84 which is treated similarly (though used a lot less often) has little to none of this problem.
I'm also getting a foamgun so I'm committed to doing what I can to at least mitigate the situation. I need some serious advice though on what I do from here.
Thanks a lot!
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