[All] [Generic] Maguiars Deep Crystal 3 stage paint trestment.........

[MID LIFE CRISIS]

Hiya, has anyone used this ? I bought it today, tried it out on my slightly faded pinky/white ( should be red) spoiler. Paint Cleaner got rid of all fade in minites and left paint a proper deep shiny red. Polish next, no probs, easy on easy off. Went to wax and some faint pinkness was back, totally gone before it was polished Waxed it anyway with no difference. Did it all over again and same happened .Seems the cleaner is "The Bizz" but not to sure about polish and wax ?

[SW20Paul]

I used and thought it was very good, that was on a black car though. try there tech wax I rate that better than the carnuba stuff

[cherdyboy]

alot of people dont rate the 3rd stage ( ie . the wax), altho i found it to do an OK job on my old red rev3.
I like the step one paint cleaner, as it does remove alot of crap on the surface and leaves a smooth finish.
The polish ive found to be good, altho pretty mush interchangable with autoglym super resin polish.
I would use mequieres gold class wax as the final stage, altho ive heard that poorboys or chemical guys wax give a super wet-look finish.
I think tis just trial and error, try to find something that gives a good finish without having to break your balls buffing the stuff off.

[JOHNM400]

3rd stage is really poor. Its Carnuaba Wax content is really low.

What has happened is the solvents and petrolium distillates in the 1st stage have masked the faded paint but by the time you have come to put step 3 on these solvents have started to evaporate away. The 1st stage contains micro abrasive in the form of silica. You need to really work the product on the paintwork for a fair amount of time to remove the oxidisation rather than mask it.

Another way to explain it is if you have a faded red car and run a hose over it it will look bright red whilst wet. Once the water drys off the paint it will look dull again. The same thing happened with your polish.

The solvents and petrolium distillates are there to enhance the finish,provide lubrication and make the product dry so it can be buffed off.

Another factor that wont help is that the rear spoliers on red MR2's have a tendancy to fade worse than the rest of the car. They really do take a lot of work to bring back to life.

[MID LIFE CRISIS]

Cheers fellas, will keep all this in mind as i take advantage of the weather and carry on with the task today.

[weegaz22]

ive used this on a faded red mk2 before, as others have said work the paint cleaner for a bit longer (like as if you are using it as tcut, keep it wet and really work it in) when i did mines it used to last a few weeks before starting to fade back

[Whippett]

I bought mine from a Meguiars trade stand at a show and was sold stage 1, 2 and the tech wax. I've used on a black car and was great.

Get a Halford's 240v polisher, the paintwork will come up gleaming

[JOHNM400]

Ive given Jeff D some of our cleaner wax called Mirror Image. This stuff will do exactly the same as Meguires 3 step system but only using one product and it also has a much higher Carnauba Wax content. I dont think Jeff has used it yet though.

[JeffD]

Oh yes I have! LOL

I used it yesterday - I'll go and take some pics and post em upo in 10 mins....dont go away!

[JOHNM400]

Now im excited!! Be back later,just in the middle of valeting my interior lol.

[JeffD]

Right - first of all apologies for low quality of these pics - they really dont do justice as I took them all in "close up" mode by accident so they are a bit fuzzy. Also I actually polished the car yesterday and its rained plu Ive been using a hovver mower this morning so the cars are actuyally quite dirty - never mind :-(

It was pretty easy to apply and buffed off easily with microfibre clothes :-)

[JeffD]

Ive had another go as the first lot of pictures are pants! LOL

[JOHNM400]

Looking good Jeff. You will probrably find it a touch harder to apply than Autoglym Super Resin Polish as the high content of Carnauba Wax makes it drag slightly more. Its hard to tell the real finish from the pics as you say though as they are a bit fuzzy but the Rover looks to have a nice reflective/wet look under all the grass and dust you created with the hover mower lol.

One last thing,because it has intelligent cutting nibs in it,the more you use it,the better the gloss gets every time. Make sure you rub it well into the paintwork to break the cutting nibs down and turn them into smooth polishing plates,thats what will really give you the gloss.

I take it you put that Highstyle on the tyres?

[JeffD]

I did yes! Really like the tyre stuff - it seems to absorb into the tyre a bit and ends up giving a nice even shine but not too shiney which is good.

Just need something to shine up the black plastic bits now!... LOL

[MID LIFE CRISIS]

Went over the most of the car again with the cleaner, really rubbing it in, took hours. The other parts, rear bumper, front wings, bonnet, just used MER and they came up great. So then used MER on the whole car, looks fantastic now, lets see how it lasts !

Popped over to ROGUE after i'd finished and Patrick commented on how shiney it was, so can't be bad.

[MID LIFE CRISIS]

Nice and shiney

Yes i know i parked on the hosepipe lol.

[James Junior]

What a result - looks great!

Can anyone recommend anything or restoring yellow paintwork?

[L0rdMike]

For a real shine you need a black car.

[Extubby]

Don't buy a halfords polisher!
Go and invest in a Porter Cable polisher. I have one and it's amazing!! Have no pictures at work to show but results are super!!

[pcp]

For a real shine you need a black car.

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Don't start, most people believe you can't see the curvy lines on a black car, when in reality it's the opposite if it's polished up nice like yours, the LRV between black and white (highlights) is the highest possible, looks ace by the way, what did you use?