Clear Coat peeling
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Clear Coat peeling
So I bought my 87 T/A with about half of the clear coat on the hood peeled, and was wondering if there was anything I could do to repair it besides going for an all new paint job. Could I sand off the clear and put a new layer on? Keep in mind, I dont need it to look like a show car right now. I just want clear covering the whole car.
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Re: Clear Coat peeling
i just got an 87 a few weeks ago and its also peeling. i took some 1000 grit and 2000 grit sand paper and went around some of the areas it was peeling and kinda blended it in if thats what u wanna call it, used some rubbing compound on the area then waxed it. it looked 1000 times better.
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Re: Clear Coat peeling
sometimes you can take a air blow gun and blow the rest of the clear off the hood, then have it re-cleared but honestly it is going to cost about the same to just re-clear it as to repaint the hood. we repaint hoods down here in fl cause the sun bakes the clear off, usually around 250 for a hood
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Re: Clear Coat peeling
before pic is at the rear spoiler area, the area that i started i had just used rubbing compound on hadnt done the sand paper yet because i was just wanting to see how it would do. dont have any pics of it after the sanding and waxing at the moment
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Re: Clear Coat peeling
guitarguy92b, Does it match in with the clear? like can you see a defined line where you waxed and where it still had clear?
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Re: Clear Coat peeling
not 100% but its alot better than it was, anything is better than it was. idk what color your car is or how bad the paint it where the clear coat peeled so it might be different for u
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