Is this repairable?

[golde30]

my car had that same effect on the roof, and i buffed the hell out of it with all sorts of compounds. the end result, i took off my clearcoat...LOL. ended up having my car resprayed.

[RCWells]

TJ, what do you use to detail with? Orbital buffer, hand, other?

I would recommend investing in a dual action orbital if you don't already have one. With the right polish, they can do amazing things with your finish.

Minzerna is great stuff that does good stuff with scratches, etc. It's really hard to tell what you're working with without seeing it in person, but I'd love to have a go at it with my buffer.

Tell ya what, if you haven't done anything with it by next June, bring it to the SE E30 Rallye at the Dragon, and I'll bring my buffer and go to town on it.

[parkerbink]

Try the Blue Coral. It is about 6bucks and 10 minutes of your time. Worst case you'll end up using it somewhere else successfully.

[Digitalwave]

I do my work by hand still. I've thought about a random orbital but that wouldn't help as far as buffing this clear coat out.

[RCWells]

Well I'm not used to the clear as mine is original paint and has no clear so it's easy to massage the paint and get good results.

You could be right about the clear, but I KNOW for a fact that the orbitals will do wonders with the right cutting polish and pads.

[parkerbink]

Orbitals are the best. I have this one which does both:
http://www.shop.com/op/~Makita_BO604...6?sourceid=298



That is 20.00 less than I paid and they offer free shipping. Worth every penny!

[nando]

the area under my wipers looks exactly like that.. it was the only part of the car that they didn't do when it was repainted many years ago! sadly, no it can't be fixed - I've tried and tried to polish it, it comes up a little bit but you'll always be able to see it. I don't think the stock clearcoat is heavy enough, I've never had anything like that on any of the other parts of my car that were repainted.

[Bill 84 318i]

Yeah, I'll agree with everyone that it can't be fixed. My entire car looks worse than that. I had a cut and polish professionally done a few years back and it looked fantastic for like a week. If you stay on top of waxing/polishing, you can minimize it...but I'm sure you knew that.

Makes for a fantastic 20 foot car.

[Digitalwave]

Mines good from 5 feet. Fuck! Respray this spring.

[Bill 84 318i]

Well I rarely get inside of 20 feet from mine, so I couldn't give you an exact number. :-P

[BDSax]

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[Digitalwave]

Huh?

[BDSax]

repaint

[Mastrcruse]

I need to get my IS valance and trunk spoiler. Maybe you could find a trades school around your house? I have one called Penta Career Center and they are quite good with painting auto's. The only thing you have to pay is for paint/clear, no labor involved. Might be alitte more serious with your because you want to it match the car perfect but I would recommend Penta to do anyones car. No, I didn't go to Penta just have seen their work.

[BahnE30]

i had looked into this as an option for getting my car painted, obviously not at penta, at the comunity college here, but as far as work goes, it was pretty good, but it took them 2 years to do one guys car, now he wasn't in a rush, but still i need mine, and it's not like the go to town on your car anyway, it's a project they'll use for learning and such. ie, they arent working on it 8 hrs a day...