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Clear Coat disasterous to otherwise perfect body?
30th January 2007
Hi,
Have a 1997 Intredid. Car runs beautifully (125,000 miles) even with poor maintenance on my part.
Problem is the black finish. It looks like I’ve parked it regularly in a toxic dump area. Clear coat is peeling (an understatement). Read that the finish is guaranteed for 5 years which has passed me bye, although one would think that Chrysler would not want such a scarred product on the road.
Have sanded down 50% of everything down to the base coat, but the roof is in such a condition that I’m supposing that it will take a solution to rid the deep crevices.
Guess what I’m looking for is some preliminary advice. I really like the car, but don’t want to spend more than the car is worth on a complicated restoration.
New used car? (Money tight) or a bandaid. Your comments will be truly appreciated.
Paul
Rashad
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if that is all that is wrong with the car there is a body shop product called clear coat remover, you can remove the clear coat with that, but if you want the car to look nice when youre done, it doesn’t sound to me like you are a proffesional body man, and i am not either, i can fix cars, but can’t paint them, i would go to a body shop and get an estimate on a paint job, talk with him, tell him you don’t want a show car, but want it to look nice for the rest of its life
Comment by hummertech h3 — January 30, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
remove as much trim as possible such as nameplates, lights, and such.
sand down the vehicle to remove the clear coat. do not sand down to bare metal unless necessary, such as rust damage or such.
use a product called ting, as in take the pain out of painting to clean the car first, keeps you from embedding silicone, wax and such into the paint.
take the car to a paint shop, have them shoot a coat or two of high build primer onto the car.
wet sand, block sand the body down with 320 grit paper.
coat with basic black polyurethane finish with a hardener.
wet sand with 1200 grit and compound.
if you wish, use a clear coat finish.
Comment by frank — February 1, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
Hello, Take your car to Macco, for about 500.00 they will paint your car and clear coat it. Be sure to use a good wax so the clear coat won’t burn off again. good luck !!
Comment by lblackvelvet — February 4, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
There is a blue book value, and there is an intrinsic value. This car may easily be worth more to you than the blue book says it should be worth. You have to decide this.
If it is more important to you to be on the road in a car that looks nice, than just getting from point A to point B, then either paint it, or find a car that looks as nice as you want for the cost of the paint job.
Doesn’t that put it into perspective? If it is going to cost you less than $1000 to paint this car up nice like you want… can you find a car that is going to look as nice for less than $1000?
The choice is yours, and only yours to make.
Comment by bon-gart — February 6, 2007 @ 6:06 am