Frame Paint Restoration

[AaronJ1970]

Hi gang,

A question for those of you that know about paint/painting.

I doing a sort of restomod on a 1998 Specialized FSR Pro.

The paint is in decent condition, so I dont want to go down costly/time consuming respray/new decals path. I'm not after a show piece and it will be ridden.

However, there are a few marks/chips and rubs here and there. I can easily colour match to clean them up, but overall its lost is luster. So if I wanted to get a little 'shine' back...

Option 1 - What if I was to do the touchup and topcoat with a gloss clear?

Option 2 - Cut and polish.

Option 3 - Leave it alone!

Any thought on how best to get some luster back, after touchups?

 

[mdvineng]

Clean then wax polish.

 

[Peachy!]

Going over it with T-cut and then a quality car polish/wax can do wonders.

Just watch out for those old stickers when using the T-cut

And make double sure you’ve left the touch up work plenty of time to really dry hard before cutting/waxing..

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

T cut can be a bit aggressive. You could try Meguiars Ultimate compound - a little less aggressive and leaves a finer finish.

1. Clean thoroughly.
2. fill chips and scratches in a number of layers
3. Wet Sand the 'fills' flat
4. meguiars ultimate compound everything
5. protect with a decent wax

Thet's the basic approach, you can add MANY more steps depending on how far you want to go...

 

[Peachy!]

Well if you wanna go pro.... :roll:

Farécla G3 Liquid Compound then G10 finishing compound....

 

[AaronJ1970]

Awesome, thanks guys. Looks like some polishing coming for me.