Best polish?

[astraman]

I have a vauxhall astra which is 5 years old and is bright red.I am looking to buy a polish for it as the colour is fading quite a lot.Could anyone please give a recommendation.Cheers.

[Impret-Sir]

After a few years car paints, and in particular red ones, dont so much fade as oxidise, the difference is important because a simple polish will just make it shiny, but still faded, not the 'as new' red look that you are after. What you need to do is use a product that will 'cut' the dead old upper serface of the paint away, leaving the fresh stuff underneith. T-cut is the best known of these, but it really is a difficult job for an amatuer to do well, you might end up with it looking worse than you started! I took my faded red VW Corrado to a small local body shop a few years ago and asked them to polish it properly, they buffed the old paint off in a morning, cost me about �50, and the car looked absolutely like new, it then needed a very good polish to protect the paint, but boy what a result! Well worth the money.

[SteveSxx]

Ajax ?

[SurreyGuy]

I've got an old (1988) car which is red. I had faded paint work on one of the doors. I used T-Cut Colour Restorer as opposed to "original" T-Cut and it brought it up like new!. I don't know how/why it works, but by God is it good! And it only took me about 10 minutes!

The Colour Restorer product is actually red in colour, whereas the "original" T-Cut is a creamy beige colour. If you're gonna buy the Colour Restorer, then make sure the base colour you buy is as near as posdsible to the colour of your car.