Paint?

[richard head]

The paint on my hood is pretty bad. It's been redone, and was simply cheaped out on. Sooo, my question is, is there any way to restore this paint? I have tried polishing and waxing and yada yada yada, but to no avail. is there any way, short of getting it professionally repainted, to get it looking good again?

[LETHALxLS1]

Whats the problem? Is it dull? Swirled? chipped? cracked? depends alot on the problem. If its dull you may be able to try a porter cable 7424 buffer with the right pad and a good product like 3M.

[richard head]

all of the above. it has faded, it looks like, due to heat from the engine compartment/sun. it appears to have a whitish film over these areas. some places it is chipped and cracked... and the worst part of all is that someone used a scratch filler on it so there are these ugly blotches that have no similarity to the original texture everywhere.

[LETHALxLS1]

Just get it repainted man.

[greatwhiteZ28]

is poilsh / wax wont do it, paint ... i did my 93 saturn after all that crap and a polish made it 100% better soo it it woont help yours , try doing some wet sanding maybe, then get painted if wont work