a question about clear coat?

Question

i have a couple of spots on my car,the clear coat is coming off,and i dont want to repaint the whole car,just doctor it up some.what do you recommend for me to do about this?,should i just sand it down and touch it up with spray paint,or what? thanks.

Answer 1

Is the clear coat chipped or the colored paint?.. if it just clear coat, clear coat spray paint will do the job, just make sure it is very thin and even layers.. about 4 will do it, if the color is chipped than you have to sand it a bit and repaint and reclear coat it.

Answer 2

The best way to fix this problem is to not look at it. It is one of those inevitable problems that started popping up in the 1980's when they started dipping the chassis to "prime them" and then throw on some new and improved paint combinations. There hasn't been a decent paint job since then.

The old paint jobs that lasted longer than three engines and many owners were occasionally sprayed with a clear coat called "Waxoyl" and this helped give it that Hollywood shine and it did protect the paint.

The new processes in manufacturing leave a very thin layer of paint on top of that dipped primer and the paint would go flat (not shiny) very soon after leaving the dealership. And since people don't like to wax their cars due to the effort and sweat, they eventually came along with this clear coat that makes any color shiny for a while longer than just that micron thin layer of paint.

If you like to wax your car then you should do this about once a year with one of those liquid "Nufinish" type waxes. This will help to remove the aging clear coat and some day you will will eventually have removed all of the old clear coat and be down to just paint and then eventually just primer and then eventually just metal.

Exposure to that giant heat lamp we call the sun is what is most detrimental to those crummy clear coats. If you keep it parked i the garage or under cover most of the time, you will slow this process of clear coat demise. A controlled environment is good too. Meaning a garage parking spot most hours of the day verses the 24 hour ravages of heat and cold from sun up to sun up day after day, year after year.

Answer 3

gets a sanding with very fine sandpaper in that area so you don't sand thru the color coat and is resprayed with a clear coat. Couple of days later, use even finer sandpaper 1500-2000 grit to make the clear coat blend into the other clear and you are done...ready for wax.