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Hi, just a quickie. My paintwork has faded and weathered badly. My bundespost T25 should be ferrari red, but now it's more off pink/white! I've been using turtle wax T-cut and even abrasive rubbing compound to try and bring back the colour and have got some good results in parts but it's one hell of a knackering job. Does anyone know any easier methods/products/secrets to bringing the colour back? (and keeping it!)
Cheers Posten.

Yes.....Respray

Could try a buffing wheel and plenty of T-cut and polish, but watch out for rubbing through any raised panel lines etc. Red seems to be the worst colour for dulling like that.

Satin black is popular this season

Posten wrote:Hi, just a quickie. My paintwork has faded and weathered badly. My bundespost T25 should be ferrari red, but now it's more off pink/white! I've been using turtle wax T-cut and even abrasive rubbing compound to try and bring back the colour and have got some good results in parts but it's one hell of a knackering job. Does anyone know any easier methods/products/secrets to bringing the colour back? (and keeping it!)
Cheers Posten.

hi mate i do valeting and would love a go of t-cutting your bus im only in qwueensferry no charge plenty of t-cut or cutting compound and a days graft will bring it back to new or leave it with me over a weekend and ill do it no worries let me know ROB!!

Now THAT is an offer you CANNOT refuse Well done Rob for that, the words "mouth" and "gifthorse" certainly should be in there somewhere. Don`t miss that one Posten

Can we have a club weekend camping at you place and watch the proceedings while drinking cold beers??

only if you supply the beers and help no problem well up for that could get 4 vans tightly squeezed on my drive and about 20 on the grass verge outside my house anytime would love it
that'll give the neighbours something to talk about eh "frell" em i say lets have a party

Wow! what an offer Robs. I'd have definitely taken you up on that had the old girl been running. Unfortunately she's in the dock getting done up prior to sale. The 1.6 engine has dropped a piston and needs a new bottom end. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or money to do it, and have to pay for an airfare to Oz!

I've applied a large amount of elbow grease and autoglym today and it's paying off. One more day tomorrow and she'll be back to former glory.

Hey, you don't want to sort the engine out for me, do you? I can bring some beers round!

Cheers again!

P.S I'm putting her on ebay this week, but will try to give people on this site first dibs. I don't want to let her go, but would rather she went to a good home. You don't see many of them in the UK. She's a rare old bird.

you have PM !!!

i have a feeling that a bit of g3 and elbow grease wil sort it..