extra dry paint

[Danube]

I'm about to tackle a 15 years old car with a (2 stage) paint that appears very dry.

I'll be using (to start with) #205 and do a few test spots, so it's not a concern as to how to do the correction.

What should I do prior, in order to 'oil' the paint?

Should I do a few passes with a glaze/polish in order to put some oils in it?

Or, #205 would be fine to start with?

Any thoughts/suggestions are appreciated.


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[opie_7afe]

i would do a meguiars #7 treatment, yes clearcoat can lose oils in the paint, not as easy or as fast as single stage but it does happen, dried out paint eventually leads to failure imo, and if car has not been waxed in a long while then most likely its dried out, as any time you wax your introducing some sort of moisturizer into the paint so to say.so i would start off with a standard high lubricity wash, decontaminate paint using clay,tar removers and iron-x(or your preferred method!) then do a layer of mirror glaze #7 on a black or blue LC pad at about speed 4 on the pc do around 3 passes and then wipe off, should make polishing easier with hydrated paint. or just do 2 test spots one using the #7 and one without and see what is easier for you!i do know 105 and 205 has oils in them so might be able to skip the #7 as i suggested do a test spot.good luck!