pishta
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F no, I do not have to love this crap. Give me back my single stage lead based acrylic enamel that held up for 50 years with a buff out and wax.....
And newly applied....
you get what you pay for and being uneducated is not the way to get your car painted or it may look like the pictures here.
A butload of gm pick ups around here did that , or rusted out around the rear wheels.I hit an owl with the old GMC, only 7 years old at the time. I take it to the Chevy body shop to get an estimate to replace the grill for the ins company. Service writer does his thing has the estimate, "When did you buy this truck?" I answered. "If you would have brought the truck to me 3 months ago I would have painted it free." He found one tiny spot where the paint was starting to fail that I hadn't even seen yet and the factory warranty was 7 years. "No big deal. It's a work truck. Always has been. Always will be." Couple months later rainy season comes around, I'm drivin' down the main boulevard and see something odd in the side view mirror. " is that?" Little white flecks flying in the rain. Roll down the window, reach for the roof of the truck. Nothing but primer! That was my paint fleeing the scene I saw in the mirror
Yours is brand new. Park it outside for 5 years and kiss your clearcoat goodbye. Same thing happened on my Challenger, it looked great when I bought it. 3 years later, looked like it had a sunburn. Whole car ended up looking like Pishta's pictures.
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Even most of the major car manufacturers can't keep it on the darker color cars. My wife's '03 Dakota started losing the clearcoat on the roof after like 3 years.
I paint my stuff with single stage. Clear coat is just a PITA. Extra step, extra money, and more money later when it fails.
A butload of gm pick ups around here did that , or rusted out around the rear wheels.
Kinda weird, the hood on my 93 SC is flawless, the nose is trashed, the roof and spoiler are all but gone clearcoat wise and the rear fenders are going fast......
Base clear painted in 1998. Still looks like the day it was put on. Yes the early years of it the manufacturers were going through a learning curve.
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Do you realize the '92 is 27 years old? I would not expect any paint to hold up real great over that many years unless it was garaged most of the time and meticulously cared for.Haaaa, I bought it like this! Actually is wasn't peeling yet but it was already getting cloudy. Its just a cheap repaint as far as I know. But my 92 LS400 is already bald on the roof, and the tops of the rear fenders and spoiler are going fast. When I got my Barracuda painted 20 years ago I specifically picked a single stage paint. So far, so good..although it chips easily. :-(
And after all the money and time we put in our old cars it will be a cold day in hell I leave mine out side all year.But can under stand that not of us have a place to store them.You have to be careful when top coating with clear. The data sheets have to be followed, mix your ratios... but you also have to read up on what actually might happen... or if you can even clear coat your paint.
My data sheet from this past weekend project by the manufacturer said I had 7 days to clear coat. Which I thought was kinda long time period. What I read online is the people that did that had issues where the clear lifted and I shouldn't wait longer than 3 days.
And the days of some automotive paint mixes are long gone because they've been outlawed. So what you might have used 20 years ago might have been replaced by crap like soy based paint or water based.
And if you leave your car outside all year round, I really don't know what you should expect after 5 years of the climate beating on it.
Yours is brand new. Park it outside for 5 years and kiss your clearcoat goodbye. Same thing happened on my Challenger, it looked great when I bought it. 3 years later, looked like it had a sunburn. Whole car ended up looking like Pishta's pictures.
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Even most of the major car manufacturers can't keep it on the darker color cars. My wife's '03 Dakota started losing the clearcoat on the roof after like 3 years.
I paint my stuff with single stage. Clear coat is just a PITA. Extra step, extra money, and more money later when it fails.
So, if the clear coat failed, where'd the rust on the roof come from?