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My onvi yellow is starting to show bad signs of fading, would a good detail and cut and mop sort this, if so does anybody know anybody in the hertfordshire, buckinghamshire area. or would it need a respray?

washed the car today and started looking round it and iam starting to get a bit of paint faid:( is there any thing that will get the colour back without having a respray:(.was thinking maybe using cutting compound and mopping it:shrug:. any ideas guys

Hi I have an 04 LCR, and paint condition on my front red brembos seems to be fading. Has anyone else seen this, if so does anyone have any suggestions where i can get them refurbished? Cheers Steve

Hi, advise needed! When you de badge the rear of the car, will you notice a difference in the paint colour. Mine is an 02 model in grafite grey, paint is good but worried there will be a difference if I remove them? Any one have experience with this would be good to hear about it. Ta

ive got the green light for new brakes from the long haired accounts manager and am pretty much set on getting 345 cupra brakes. just want to know how resistant to brake fade is the standard setup I do a fair amount of track work, but cant justify spending too much on anything bigger, My...

just cleaned and waxed the leon tonight and the faded paint on different panels seems worse? does anyone have anytips what to use on the yellow paint to blend it in with the other panels? obvioulsy the plastic spoiler and fuel cap are the most yellow, roof i faded , and passenger door stand out...

hi folks, over the last couple of days my brakes have been SH1T3, after driving the car "briskly" for a few miles i get severe brake fade, i am unsure wheather i have boiled the brake fluid previously and now it isnt working as it used to, or i have fecked the brake pads? any ideas folks.

Car care wizards, I need your advice. I have an OVNI Yellow LCR, the colour we all know that loves to fade. I will admit, she isn't faded by conventional standards, I have taken good care of the paint work so far and the Carnauba wax has restored alot of the colour. However, the fade is still...

Hi all. My red callipers on my cupra are starting to fade and i am wondering if anyone has any tips to bring the colour back to them without re painting. Thanks.

Help needed off yellow cupra owners... My cupra has a couple of panels on it that have faded / maybe been painted in the past. I need peoples opinions on whether you'd recommend having a cut an polish job done on it for £120 or having the whole car painted again in yellow??? Im not sure...

My red leon startin to fade in colour! its mainly the bonnet! It was nice and bright 3weeks ago! Now you see some faded areas of red! Any suggestions on what i can use to restore the red. Im getting abit scared :cry: as i dont want any more bills!

I did my first trackday on Saturday which was excellent but had a huge problem with brake fade, they were very good to begin with but after about 5 laps were useless. I came in after 1 session and the pads were smoking - alot!:( I have 280mm tarox G88 grooved discs and strado pads. Now i...

Just had a revo trial put on my LCR, Its really good, loads more power, but when you get past 4.5 - 5k on the revs the power seems to fade, i've seen this reported before, spoke to the revo guy and he reckons i should get an intercooler, but it works out about £875 fitted, seems a lot of money...

Has anybody had any problems with paint fade or sun bleaching of their paint? The car I'm about to buy is in the lovely Ovni Yellow, but when sat on the dealers forecourt it looked like it had been suffering from sun bleaching on two of the panels. The front and rear passenger side wings were...

I went along to my local body shop who have done some good work for me in the past to see how much id be looking at to have so stone chips sorted and the news wasn’t great :( They said could fill the chips and blow the front end over for £150-£200 but the paint has faded over the whole car...