Detailing White Paint

cj10jeeper · Post by **cj10jeeper** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:24 am

OK so not a Zed but my new Jag is a flat off white (porcelain)
I'm familiar with detailing metallics and darker colours but any specifics on bringing the best out in flat white paint?

Car is near new, can't see much in the way of swirls and thankfully had no paint protectors applied by the dealers soa clean base to work from.

Have a shelf full of Meguirs products and a pc, already but was thinking of some Porboys for light colours in the mix as it seems good on dark colours

Thoughts and tips welcome

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:02 pm

I have found Swissoll to be the best for flat colour (my red Golf). It was not great on the metallics for BMW, but it did work excellent on flat.

Z4 Beemer · Post by **Z4 Beemer** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:16 pm

I've heard a lot of people say Werkstat products are pretty good on white paint:

http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/acatalog ... ducts.html

cj10jeeper · Post by **cj10jeeper** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:37 pm

Couple of good ideas

Thanks guys

playalistic · Post by **playalistic** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:35 pm

Poorboys do a glaze which is the alternative to Blackhole but for lighter cars called "White Diamond": http://www.poorboysworld.com/whitediamond.htm

cj10jeeper · Post by **cj10jeeper** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:03 pm

playalistic wrote:Poorboys do a glaze which is the alternative to Blackhole but for lighter cars called "White Diamond": http://www.poorboysworld.com/whitediamond.htm

playalistic - yes - I referenced this in my post (differnt speling) Was thinking of getting a bottle of this.

playalistic · Post by **playalistic** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:15 pm

Ah so you did

Nickm · Post by **Nickm** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:17 pm

I use White Diamond and it's a great polish.....follow it up with some supernatural or Colly 476 S

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Shipkiller · Post by **Shipkiller** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:21 pm

I have used several brands of wax on my AWMC over the last two years. I have just switched to DodoJuice Diamond Hard White and in my opinion it is the best I have used so far on white.

powerontap · Post by **powerontap** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:25 am

But Poorboy's White Diamond is a glaze, not a wax...! it's designed as a base, you'll still need a top coat of polymer or natural Carnauba over that. Blackfire Wet Diamond or Zaino Z2 are my polymer wax choices, P21S for a Carnauba finish

PaulN · Post by **PaulN** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:14 pm

Id treat it like any other paint as i guess even though solid it will have lacquer on too.

Its more to do with the type of paint soft Jap Cars / Hard German cars (btw thats very vague)

If theres little swirls or you can only see few go for a finishing polish low cut high gloss. menzerna Range IMO are nice long work time but dust. You could use 3M polishes as they dont dust but can fill swirls instead of remove if now worked long enough.

Let me know if you need any advice.

PaulN

cj10jeeper · Post by **cj10jeeper** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:18 pm

PaulN wrote:Id treat it like any other paint as i guess even though solid it will have lacquer on too.

Its more to do with the type of paint soft Jap Cars / Hard German cars (btw thats very vague)

If theres little swirls or you can only see few go for a finishing polish low cut high gloss. menzerna Range IMO are nice long work time but dust. You could use 3M polishes as they dont dust but can fill swirls instead of remove if now worked long enough.

Let me know if you need any advice.

PaulN

Are you sure? I thought flat paint did not have lacquer, but I only had the car 4 days before I left in on a airport car park, so cannot check.

Post by **srhutch** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:52 pm

CJ it will have lacquer, all new cars do due to paint being used these days.

Been through it all with my 1 series.

cj10jeeper · Post by **cj10jeeper** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:45 pm

I need to check with Jag as interestingly if you order a paint touch-up it comes with lacquer except flat colours that get a primer.

Post by **srhutch** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:42 pm

Halfords touchup for my alpine white didn't include lacquer (never used it as the match was crap) so got BMW whch came with clear.

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