Australian UV oxidises the surface until it goes dull and powdery. Run a hand down the side and it comes away white.
The standard advice is a wax or sealant reapplied at least twice a year. On a surface that size, that is a lot of repeating.
It takes more UV than every other surface combined and is the one surface an owner cannot inspect. On most vans it is years behind the walls.
Clad aluminium walls, moulded fibreglass caps, printed vinyl decals over the top.
A Ducato, Sprinter or Daily wears normal car paint and behaves like it.
Gel coat or composite panel, which weathers completely differently.
They have to be run separately and blended where they meet.
Treating it as one surface leaves a polished cab bolted to a chalky body.
Mild polishes back by hand, moderate needs a machine, severe needs careful wet sanding, and wet sanding gel coat is a one-way street.
It cracks under UV, and that is a water problem rather than a cosmetic one. We will not seal a good finish over a leaking roof.
Faded vinyl is the first thing a machine polisher destroys. Masked or worked by hand, and if it is past saving we say so.
Where corrosion starts on a van stored near the coast.
Roof included, and an honest assessment of what can be recovered.
Across every surface, including the areas a normal wash never reaches.
Progressively, method matched to how far gone each panel is.
Fibreglass caps treated as gel coat, cladding as cladding, decals masked or hand worked.
By hand, panel by panel.
And a handover covering care between trips.
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