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Originally Posted by SVX10
Another clearcoat question...kinda. My clearcoat is absolutely gone on many of my plastic body panels (sunroof, rear quarter garnish, top of rear bumper). No amount of waxing or polishing can hide it for more than a day or two. As a matter of fact, they usually worsen the situation. So, my next thought is wet sanding the clearcoat completely off and replacing with a sprayed on clearcoat. I would start on the sunroof since I can replace that if it all goes south. Anyway, anybody have experience with wet sanding outside of doing the headlight lenses? Is that too aggressive of an approach? Any other ideas for me? Here's my sunroof:
The white spots are where the clearcoat is flaking off. Those have all grown to about 2x their size, and there is now exposed black paint.
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Well, I went ahead and took the sunroof off and wet-sanded it. That didn't help anything. I could still see the lines around the white areas. So, since I had it off and sanded, I figured it was worth trying to paint. Did the black on day 1, wet sanded the black and applied claer coat on day 2, polished on day 2, saw some flaws still, re-wet sanded today and polished and Meguiar's 3-stepped it. Now it's looking good. My application technique was a bit off, so there is some "tiger striping" that shows what direction I painted in, but the gloss and lack of orange peel is FANTASTIC! I couldn't be happier with this as a temporary fix. Now i just gotta figure out if I want to get factory match spray paint and go at it again.
