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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omega3000 on 17 July 2013, 20:15:47
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In this trusty old focus ::) PINK FOCUS (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-FORD-FOCUS-ZETEC-PINK-/161065146521?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item25803b1899)
(http://images.omegaowners.com/forum/smf2000/Themes/core/images/post/grin.gif)
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very nice :-\ :-\
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kill me now
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/2000-FORD-FOCUS-ZETEC-PINK-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/NFkAAOxyuuJR4F53/$(KGrHqV,!rcFH!2dc!8kBR4F53hCPw~~60_12.JPG)
:o ;D ;D
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Used to have a taxi firm round here that only used mondeo's that was sprayed pink and driven only by girlies :D
Boy was they popular :-X :-X
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Fairly sure that car left the factory painted Radiant Red...
They've done well to get it to fade evenly ;D
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at least it doesn't have eyelashes. :-X
Love the comment "JUST NEEDS A BIT OF TLC ON BODY WORK"
is TLC the new name for nitromors?
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Fairly sure that car left the factory painted Radiant Red...
They've done well to get it to fade evenly ;D
lol ;D ;D
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at least it doesn't have eyelashes. :-X
Love the comment "JUST NEEDS A BIT OF TLC ON BODY WORK"
is TLC the new name for nitromors?
;D ;D ;D
Judging by some of the cars I have seen recently I think you could be right :y
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A lot of vauxhall red turns pink , like the red astra estate i had and my daughters corsa ... all turned pink with age :(
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A lot of vauxhall red turns pink , like the red astra estate i had and my daughters corsa ... all turned pink with age :(
My 1998 Corsa B FL was red and boy did it fade, in the end I got massive arms ::) with all the polishing I did, and it looked like new when I was finished with it :y http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0)
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Cutting paste and a mop, if REALLY bad, 1200 W&D and then cut and mop.
All red paint seems to fade... I'm sure a scientist would be able to say why?
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A lot of vauxhall red turns pink , like the red astra estate i had and my daughters corsa ... all turned pink with age :(
My 1998 Corsa B FL was red and boy did it fade, in the end I got massive arms ::) with all the polishing I did, and it looked like new when I was finished with it :y http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0)
:o :o :o :o
That come up really nice :y
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A lot of vauxhall red turns pink , like the red astra estate i had and my daughters corsa ... all turned pink with age :(
My 1998 Corsa B FL was red and boy did it fade, in the end I got massive arms ::) with all the polishing I did, and it looked like new when I was finished with it :y http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0)
:o :o :o :o
That come up really nice :y
Thanks EMD. I shall never have a red car again though, saying this, does'nt white also fade??
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If that fades, it will become more purple.
I used to work as a colour matcher in an ink company - colour fade is not really understood, but is something to do with UV radiation changing the chemical makeup of the pigment - it adds extra electrons to the pigment molecule, allowing them to change shape, so the refractive index changes.
White "fades" to ivory>beige.
Pink (the pigment is actually "rhodamine") fades to purple
Red fades to light red
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A lot of vauxhall red turns pink , like the red astra estate i had and my daughters corsa ... all turned pink with age :(
My 1998 Corsa B FL was red and boy did it fade, in the end I got massive arms ::) with all the polishing I did, and it looked like new when I was finished with it :y http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=104959.0)
:o :o :o :o
That come up really nice :y
Thanks EMD. I shall never have a red car again though, saying this, does'nt white also fade??
I thought the red fade was only on vauxhall paints :-\ To get the colour back like you have , dont you have to cut through the lacquer ? Seems the lacquer has lifted on my daughters corsa but just on the bonnet :(
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If that fades, it will become more purple.
I used to work as a colour matcher in an ink company - colour fade is not really understood, but is something to do with UV radiation changing the chemical makeup of the pigment - it adds extra electrons to the pigment molecule, allowing them to change shape, so the refractive index changes.
White "fades" to ivory>beige.
Pink (the pigment is actually "rhodamine") fades to purple
Red fades to light red
That may be true with ink (I have spent my time with screen-print and digital print), but not with paint. Paint has a tendency to 'fade' because of a powder like substance which appears on the surface. Once this is removed (by abrasion) the original colour will return.
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If that fades, it will become more purple.
I used to work as a colour matcher in an ink company - colour fade is not really understood, but is something to do with UV radiation changing the chemical makeup of the pigment - it adds extra electrons to the pigment molecule, allowing them to change shape, so the refractive index changes.
White "fades" to ivory>beige.
Pink (the pigment is actually "rhodamine") fades to purple
Red fades to light red
That may be true with ink (I have spent my time with screen-print and digital print), but not with paint. Paint has a tendency to 'fade' because of a powder like substance which appears on the surface. Once this is removed (by abrasion) the original colour will return.
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Wonder if the "powder-like substance" is the irradiated pigment - would show more as paint is applied as a much thicker film than ink ?