Probably why my paint is lookin' crappy???

['93accordse]

2) your paint never had a clearcoat. white honda's have single stage paint.

true, its integrated, single stage

but he said he has Pearl White, which begs the question:

Is this non-original paint?

[Scubasteve_dan]

armor all

Oh boy, laundry soap is a bad idea. Just buy some good old armor all carwash, it works great on my car, cheap too. Walmart has got lots of car cleaning goodies, armor all being one of the best from my experience. And try using miquires gold class paste wax once you've got your paint ready for waxing, that stuff is supposed to work magic, at least I've heard. Good luck getting your shine back man, shine is vital.

ps: check out what turtle wax did on my old chevy

[Mercfwd]

yeah claying a cra is great at first I couldn't belive I was rubbing this thing agains my car then after it was over and a good wax I was reallly supprised

[Night Wolf]

I use soap from meglars (sp?) & an old shirt to clean it. then I give it some turtle wax

[NAiL05]

Claybar owns > all. Takes a shit load of time but it brang back my paint. Before my car had quite a bit of overspray and didnt shine as much. But after using claybar and waxing it turned out 10x better.

[cleanz_28]

Um Shampoo

Well this might sound weird but I use Pante Pro-v Shampoo without the conditioner...I leaves your car real clean and with a shine...I found this tip over at z28.com...every one on that fourm uses it and its cheap just hit up Wal-Mart they sometimes go for 5.00 and its goes a looong way.just squirt like a quater in the bucket and hit hit with the water with a strong stream,It foams up like a mofo...lol If its good Enough For me Its Good Enough for My Cb7....

[NAiL05]

Same as car wash soap they sell em in those big plastic containers they last quite a while too.

[Djmoua]

Wow...haha thanks guys, shampoo for my bald cb is my current choice to use tahahah jk, IDK. These are great advice doods, THANKS! BAD SOAP IDEA I MADE FROM THE beggingngngngndingf (however you spell it)

[Jweezy]

I dont know if anyone mentioned this yet but from what I have learned soap detergents are degreasers at that, so when you wash your car with it you are actually slowly killing the clearcoat on your car. and in doing this for four years under hot weather would most likely result in the finish you have today. if you see these little rice looking cracks all over or a flaky chalk like white area then that means the clearcoat is starting to fail leaving your cars bare paint open for deterioration. if it gets to the point where its flaky though then ur only solution is repaint

[Chrisisiced]

OMG you have done a terrible terrible thing. Never EVER use dish soap or even worse laundry detergent to wash your car

Follow Type G's steps. Its a lot harder to keep the paint fresher looking on a white car like ours. You have to polish and wax white more often because it has the tendency to turn a slight yellowish color. You can wax over it and make the car shiny again but the only way to keep the yellow away is frequent polish and wax.....

You've got a lot of work ahead of you to get that car lookin proper again.

[Djmoua]

yea now i know this was a bad idea...then again i did this when i was 16 when i started driving the car...i was a pure NOOB going into the real world and didn't know much..but yeah thanks for the advices/suggestions..this will deff. help!...and i am going to repaint, same color. how much is an average repaint cost?

BTW, THIS should be a lesson to OTHERS if you just now got a cb..or basically a new car of your own.

[pballplayer18]

use meguires its awesome

[hondawonderboy]

The base substance in dishwashing soap is much stronger than typical car soap. That is why it is hard to remove tar and old dead bugs with regular car soap- but its done that way for a reason. Your dishwasher soap is extremely harsh and probably ate through the paint- when you use an electron microscope on a section of your paint, it will probably look like a sponge.

[accordztech]

www.autopia.org

talk to them

[champagneaccord]

Polish that shit