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April 16, 2006
Project Mirage
Those who have seen my Red Mirage know how bad the paint condition is. The bonnet is the worst, since I never have a garage, the car has been in the sun for the past 5 years that I own it. Although it's well serviced and the engine is still in a top notch condition, I hardly look after the body work (wash and wax). Without proper wax, the paint has faded away. So for my Easter Project I decided to do something about it. During a quick visit to autObarn, the helpful sales guy recommended a polish with extra cut property. This supposedly cut through the topmost layer of the paint and restore the paint to its (almost) original colouring.
Well, since I have nothing to lose I decided to buy that $14 polish and started my project. This is my car's bonnet before the polish:
You can see the colour has faded and it looks disgusting. Armed with the polish and two very old white t-shirt I attacked the bonnet first. That's the ugliest bit in my car. This is the result halfway through:
It's already looking realy good. Of course I had to do the entire car so all the panels will have reasonably the same colour and I had to do the bonnet twice. Once I've done the entire car I finish it with a car wash and shine that I bought a while back from these guys.
Four hours and a very sore arm later, this is the result:
Damn it looks good :)
Posted by vhadiant at April 16, 2006 07:00 PM
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Comments
Is the Mirage the same as the Colt?
Posted by: tom at October 15, 2007 09:55 AM
No I don't think so. It's an older model than Colt I think.
Posted by: Victor at October 15, 2007 05:19 PM
