Clear coat peeling off (1 Viewer)

[baghloli123]

The clear coat of my lx470 is peeling off. Please see pictures. I do not want to spend too much on it and am thinking of spraying the cleat coat over the affected area(so that the paint won't fade)
I am wondering if this will work out fine. My concern is that there will. be two shades of paint on the hood. Shall I clear-coat the whole hood

Thanks

 

[suprarx7nut]

You can use a can of that stuff and potentially get everything to look more or less the same color, but you'll have obvious rings where that clearcoat has already failed.

If you're *very* diligent, you can wetsand the clear and blend it with the base that's there, then spray the whole hood. That's probably 10 hours of labor per panel. I did that on an Accord in high school and the paint went from garbage to very good... but it took weeks.

 

[medtro]

 

[Live to Ski]

i'd like to see a dry view vs just sprayed. Anyone?

 

[suprarx7nut]

i'd like to see a dry view vs just sprayed. Anyone?

Yeah, that's a little deceiving. Look at that in high def from a moving perspective and I bet those fade lines are clear as day. The gloss from one angle looks fine, but walk around that and I bet it's only 50% better than when it started. Still maybe worth doing, but you have to have low expectations.

 

[Kabanstva]

For reference. My boss had a 2004 Land Cruiser. That dark grey metallic color. No clearcoat failure, just dull looking paint from living in Texas all its life. No dents. Just regular chips etc. the bodyshop we use for work, with our discount wanted $1,700 to repaint just a hood. Pretty ridiculous.

 

[suprarx7nut]

For reference. My boss had a 2004 Land Cruiser. That dark grey metallic color. No clearcoat failure, just dull looking paint from living in Texas all its life. No dents. Just regular chips etc. the bodyshop we use for work, with our discount wanted $1,700 to repaint just a hood. Pretty ridiculous.

Sounds about right. Lots of labor and huge costs associated with running a body shop in 2024. Of course, Maaco will always paint your hood for $500 or something, haha. Whether or not it actually matches the rest of the car or has overspray on everything around it is a separate question....

 

[medtro]

Remove and reclear, or simply remove and wax.

 

[Kabanstva]

Sounds about right. Lots of labor and huge costs associated with running a body shop in 2024. Of course, Maaco will always paint your hood for $500 or something, haha. Whether or not it actually matches the rest of the car or has overspray on everything around it is a separate question....

This was around 2021-22. Probably cost $2k+ these days at a good shop.

 

[TexLexican]

Has Anyone used this stuff before?

 

[kevgentile]

Has Anyone used this stuff before?

looks ok but not too much. Like mentioned earlier, all the previously damaged clear shows through whatever is applied on top of it.
While you know what it once looked like and feel better about it now, anyone else will think it's just a crappy paint job.

Best to take it down to the base, re-shoot and clear. Even getting custom rattle cans filled with your paint code will look better then just re-clearing over already damaged clear. Or if cost is really an issue and can't live with it as is I'd grab a few can of grey epoxy primer, sand to base and shoot it and run as-is

 

[suprarx7nut]

looks ok but not too much. Like mentioned earlier, all the previously damaged clear shows through whatever is applied on top of it.
While you know what it once looked like and feel better about it now, anyone else will think it's just a crappy paint job.

Best to take it down to the base, re-shoot and clear. Even getting custom rattle cans filled with your paint code will look better then just re-clearing over already damaged clear. Or if cost is really an issue and can't live with it as is I'd grab a few can of grey epoxy primer, sand to base and shoot it and run as-is

Yeah, I think this is all about expectations.

IMO, the dead clearcoat looks like a 2/10.

Clearing right over top of the bad clear like that Poppy is a 4/10.

A cheap, but proper respray or wet sand blend like I mentioned is maybe a 7/10 and then a full respray being a 10/10.

If you want to repair the paint, you're in for a lot of labor. You can improve it short of that, but it's going to look like bad paint still.

 

[kevgentile]

Yeah, I think this is all about expectations.

IMO, the dead clearcoat looks like a 2/10.

Clearing right over top of the bad clear like that Poppy is a 4/10.

A cheap, but proper respray or wet sand blend like I mentioned is maybe a 7/10 and then a full respray being a 10/10.

If you want to repair the paint, you're in for a lot of labor. You can improve it short of that, but it's going to look like bad paint still.

Fortunately we have one of the best shops available to us whenever I need some side stuff done so my cost is usually materials, and I throw a few bucks at the painter. I last had some tins painted for my parents Harley and cost me all of about $140, and of course my mom picked one of the most expensively difficult OEM colors, some 5 stage Mazda red.
Working relationships between shops can payoff.