Hi all

 

My Zed is going into the body shop soon to have the small rust bit on the rear o/s wheel arch sorted.

 

The garage chappie thinks I should have the whole car machine polished afterwards to renovate the paintwork, but I'm not too sure about this. I've heard bad things about the mop scraping or burning paintwork etc

 

He has only seen the car when dirty, when I polished it with red Colour Magic followed by Super Resin Auto Glym it looked perfect. No flat bits or fading etc. Now it looks good after a simple wash and leather.

 

Should I have this machine polish or do you think it would do more harm to the paintwork long term, like strip the protective laquer etc?:confused:

 

Opinions would be appreciated

I've had a couple of cars machine polished, it didn't seem to do any harm as long as they recieve a quality hand polish straight afterwards.

 

Rich

If it looks fine when hand polished then I dont see the need to machine polish... taking on whatever risks come with it ;)

I'm no paintwork expert but I wouldn't be very enthusiastic about my factory paintwork being machine polished.

 

I've seen too many cars around with mop smears and scratches which generally only show up in direct sunlight or fluorescent light.

 

If your happy with the shine after a wash and leather then why bother.

 

My 0.02 worth.

 

Steve

Cheers guys:)

 

Even if he will do it for free, I think I'll say no.

 

if the bodywork is fine what's the point?:cool:

Get yourself some 'Liquid Gold' - lovely stuff.