Just met the lad with my old VXR, its standard but stage 1 now so about 260bhp. From about 20mph i could pull about 3 car lengths but then the gap stopped, he couldnt catch up but i couldnt pull no more. Seems about right to me? Cant wait to get it sorted tomorrow though
PS the paint is pissing me off, the rear end has been painted but the doors and front end is from factory. The standard paint has green bits in and the new paint is just black, you can tell a difference but it doesnt really bother me. What bothers me is that when i did a detail on my car the new paint on the back has gone all swirly and greesey/smudgy and looks like lots of nasty scratches. Im not a pro but i've done this loads of times and hasnt turned out like this, can anyone that can detail etc tell me how i can fix it? I started off with a clay bar which made it a bit smudgy then i polished it twice which sort of took it away and then i waxed it. I sort of blame the clay bar but i've used the same stuff on a few different cars and its fine. Is there anything i can do?
If it's fresh paint (and i mean within the last six months) then I wouldn't have been touching it with a claybar or polishing compound myself. Not sure what you can really do in the meantime - i presume it was baked long enough after application to fully cure?
And i assume you mean the car from the factory is Sapphire black, which is pearlescent, and the rear is now flat black. That's not good, and there's no real way to sort that except for a full respray.
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How much is a full respray. Im not sure how long ago it was painted. Yeah its sapphire black and the rear is flat black, you can tell but only close up. I will try going over it with SRP a few times as that sort of fills swirls etc then a wax, im gutted
nothing is going right for the money i've spent for this car. Near mine is a big bank which has stones all over it as they're busy repairing the crappy road and some bloody 4x4 came flying past.... now i have big chips even on the window. TBH i prefer the flat black paint but not the way it is now
Edited by astravxr, 29 June 2011 - 10:56 PM.
