I have a badly oxadized 91' Toyota and it occured to me that this might be the best place to start (using water only) with a cutting pad.
It seems to me that it might be best to get the top layers of this paint off before attempting to use polish.
Is this reasonable or should I go ahead and start with the polish?

 

well... maybe sorta

the water part should be a light mist on your pad before applying the polish- but dont polish with just water...

not positive, but my recollection is that your 91 was clearcoated-
there are polishes for non-clear coated cars
do you know whether the car is clear coated or not?

 

It was clearcoated but the clearcoat is shot. There are some areas on the car that the clearcoat is still visable.
Iknow the car really needs to be painted but I'm hoping to just make it look better without going through this expense. Thanks for the reply.

 

If the clearcoat has failed on the car then polishing won't do too much. Really what you need to do is have the car re-painted.

 

Thanks guys for the advise. I might try one panel as an experiment just for the fun of it.

PS- I'm going to post another question about my leather on my S. Maybe you guys could give me some advise here too?