Some Pics

[Haylands]

Spent the morning claying and polishing the car, didn't need too much as its just had the front and back repainted see Lexus V Discovery for details, anyway clayed the doors and roof and polished it all.....

Then it rained.... now its snowing..... never mind...

Pete

[spikes]

looling nice and shiny :) B)

[adrian71]

ya missed a bit

[BarneyTT]

Looking good, love the colour too.

[jsj24uk]

Very nice. Now we know who to blame for the bad weather. :)

My detailing guy has just rang up to cancell as well. Re booked in for easter Monday.

If he can get my LS half as good as yours then I will be happy.

[M.IQBAL]

Very....................VERY nice car - My MK3 was vandelised the other week - some sod keyed the passenge side front to back inc doors - i has cut the paint - so at the moment im really P*****d off!!

[Neofate]

Looks great.

When did you have this paint done?

Because you should never polish, seal, wax, etc on new paint for at least a month -- and preferably 2-3 months. If you can wait 90 days it is best.

When you polish and put other products on it will seal the paint, in one way or another, and cause it not to be able to breath, and the new paint won't be able to out-gas and expand settle like it is designed to do. Which can at worst cause little pores to open up (like little needles poked in your paint,.. or some cracking underneath) -- At best the paint will remain 'soft' because it never got a chance to harden.

I have some freshly painted sections on my vehicle, and it takes everything I have not to polish/wax them right now.. Been nearly two weeks, but waiting 45-60 days before I polish them. As every few days I can feel the paint physically getting harder , as it bakes on with time.

[Neofate]

Looks great.

When did you have this paint done?

Because you should never polish, seal, wax, etc on new paint for at least a month -- and preferably 2-3 months. If you can wait 90 days it is best.

When you polish and put other products on it will seal the paint, in one way or another, and cause it not to be able to breath, and the new paint won't be able to out-gas and expand settle like it is designed to do. Which can at worst cause little pores to open up (like little needles poked in your paint,.. or some cracking underneath) -- At best the paint will remain 'soft' because it never got a chance to harden.

I have some freshly painted sections on my vehicle, and it takes everything I have not to polish/wax them right now.. Been nearly two weeks, but waiting 45-60 days before I polish them. As every few days I can feel the paint physically getting harder , as it bakes on with time.

[Haylands]

Looks great.

When did you have this paint done?

Because you should never polish, seal, wax, etc on new paint for at least a month -- and preferably 2-3 months. If you can wait 90 days it is best.

When you polish and put other products on it will seal the paint, in one way or another, and cause it not to be able to breath, and the new paint won't be able to out-gas and expand settle like it is designed to do. Which can at worst cause little pores to open up (like little needles poked in your paint,.. or some cracking underneath) -- At best the paint will remain 'soft' because it never got a chance to harden.

I have some freshly painted sections on my vehicle, and it takes everything I have not to polish/wax them right now.. Been nearly two weeks, but waiting 45-60 days before I polish them. As every few days I can feel the paint physically getting harder , as it bakes on with time.

I asked this same question to the paint shop as they had already waxed it. Apparently it was baked well enough to remove any trapped vapour, if it had been left to air dry it would have been a different matter.... Its got a 12mth warantee and they waxed it first so will wait and see but they did say it would be ok

Pete

[SINGH182]

the new paints are water based not the old solvent types.

so waxing/polishing is not too much off a problem as long as the paint was baked for the right amount off time.