yes but the top clear coat is pain in the a** to apply based on my past experience, it will easily form a blob and the surface will not be even unless you sand it. So for now I just leave it as is without the top clear coat.

I previously have a car that applied fusso coat 12 month too, the effect can last at least 10 months. But really difficult to apply the wax, it doesn't gives much extra shine and the default sponge applicator is quite hard.

Try clay it.

Based on the shape, looks like it's some liquid, but ok lah, difficult stuffs let the pros handle.

AFAIK, depends on the dealer, some dealer will polish and wax before delivering, especially cars with white paint. but for mine, nope no polish no wax

Haha, yeah very normal, but then they have to do the initial wash at lowest cost possible to make it look better, because when the car arrive at the dealership the condition is less than ideal for car delivery, when I'm getting my car i saw some new unregistered car behind the shop, lots of black water streaks on the car body.

Noticed there is some rusting going on in the engine bay area, decided to experiment with it.

Sanded the rusty area with 80 and 500grit sandpaper then paint it with touch up paint. Perodua didn't clearcoat this section probably because it wont be noticed since it's under the hood.

After 3 coats of touch up paint, wet sanded the paint with 800, 1000, 1500 and 3000 grit sandpaper. Pending to polish it up.

After sanding the rust and applied 3 coats touch up paint:


After sanding the paint:


This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jun 3 2021, 04:06 PM

Iinm for orange peel you'll need cutting compound instead of polish as it might be too fine to cut the imperfections of the clear coat faster. Doing it by hand will be a huge effort unless you have the time and patience to do it because after compound it you will need to polish it then apply sealant for protection.

This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jun 22 2021, 09:09 PM

I think you can try checking out their perfect fifty compound
https://osren.com/product/professional-seri...l/perfect-fifty

or IGL's F1 compound
https://iglcoatings.com/products/ecoshine-compound-f1

if these compound doesn't work well for you then may need to opt for wet sanding with 3000 grit sandpaper.

Since your car is really new, sure you want to DIY? Soul Red is a really nice and expensive color to respray, why not let the pros properly do the paint correction?

Same with my toyota, soft, thin and full of orange peel but can't expect too much for entry level brands

Speaking of thin paint, last week went to tapau lunch on the way back a small rock from a construction flyover hit my front hood.

Now working on touch up the chipped paint.


This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jul 12 2021, 05:31 PM

Oh that is just the initial damage pic without touch up yet. The black color is the primer iinm.. i just completed sanding the chipped part and applied the base coat, now waiting it for a day or 2 to dry before i apply the second pearlescent coat.

Better touch up before it karat :x

This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jul 12 2021, 06:21 PM

yeah same here, if you zoom in on the photo i uploaded can see some silver metal exposed within the black spot, today gonna apply there pearlescent coat on it, hopefully all goes well, tricoat paint really troublesome to touch up

For me, 1, 3 and maybe 4?

As mine is just a Yaris, I personally don't think that PPF would be a good investment plus the detailer where I get my ceramic coating also doesn't recommends PPF as the film may turns yellow in time.

This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jul 13 2021, 07:18 PM

Need to try only can know for sure, because it really depends on how deep the scratch goes, the differences between compound and polish is the abrasive in the liquid.

Think of it like sandpaper, compound is like lower grit sandpaper, higher abrasive while polish is a finer sandpaper. So the idea behind using compound first then only polish is basically like wood work, you want to use a low grit sandpaper to sand off the unevenness on the surface fast, then slowly move up to finer grit sandpaper to achieve smooth surface. If you have the time and patience, polish alone might work too for very fine scratches but it will take you alot time effort and probably need to use alot of the polishing liquid.

Most scratch remover will have even higher abrasive liquid to cut the clear coat/paint faster so that can even out the scratches faster too, some scratch remover kits even includes sandpapers.

This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jul 16 2021, 10:56 AM

I got this too, still waiting for it to arrive.. Previously bought IGL Dash but noticed it easily fade when contact with water, quite surprised it's priced at RM34 for a branded ceramic coating and it even comes with a precoat cleaner, should have sapu a few more.

This post has been edited by more2teayap: Jul 29 2021, 03:12 PM

I got some scratches on my side window sun visor, used osren polish on microfiber cloth and polish with finger, works fine

Same here I bought the 3M clay but not sure fake or not, but it's feels weird, hard to tear and feels really rough. It's my first time using clay so I got no idea how those expensive ones like.

I used alot of soap for lubrication while claying too, but still it still leave scratches after done I think it's either not enough lubrication, i applied too much pressure or there are too many contamination on the clay. So yeah after clay, just polish to regain the shine.

I don't clay plastic parts, as they are too soft and easily scratched but should able to use polish to do on plastic surface too, maybe you can try on a small area first.

Ideally shampoo without containing wax, the wax may interfere the performance of the coating. At least that is what i experienced with turtle wax zip wax shampoo on my coated car.

From the picture it seems that white spot might be just the clear coat being chipped.

It's abit hard to judge from the picture, but if its really deep, you'll probably will see its primer/undercoat or even bare metal.

Here's mine circle in red, got hit by a big rock on highway. You can really see the exposed metal in the middle of the darkgrey undercoat


This post has been edited by more2teayap: Dec 30 2021, 02:08 PM