Paint Help

[Stol]

My bonnet has faded/ oxidised paint on it. I'm just wondering what the best way to get the paint back up to scratch would be? I've tried polish and wax to no avail and im wondering how I'd go with cut and polish or if there are any specific products that i could use?

Here are a couple of pics of the damaged paint, the rest of the car is pretty reasonable.

Cheers, Andy.

[ali-turko]

you should be able to buff it out, but depends how much of your paint is oxidised

[mr. kirisaki]

You can just cut it and then polish, should be fine. Either that or respray

[Stol]

Thank you both for your prompt replies . I'll give it a go in the next couple of days and let you know of the outcome. I'm really hoping i can get away with out having to respray it.

[inthisglass]

itll depend on the condition of the paint

if you get a really good cut and polish and spend a lot of time it should come up nice

but if the paint is too far gone might need to re-spray.

[mark_sudakov]

looks like the clear coat is gone, which means u cant really get rid of it, i dont think, without a respray

[Stol]

I got some paint cleaner today and it looked to start to get the top layer off but its still very average. In the next week or two (whenever it cools down a bit) i'll give it a go with something more abrasive.

[Xicon]

Your paint is stuffed on the bonnet buffing will not help at all .

Best bet would be to repaint the bonnet .Cheap easy way for you to do this is to sand it down and paint it black .

Black looks good on a skyline requires no colour matching to the rest of the car and if your handy you could do it youreslf .

Failing that getting the bonnet painted for you shouldn't be that expensive .

[fab34]

yea that paint is no good should only cost 2-3 hundred to paint