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Paint on hood - clear coat popping off. What to do? 200

posted by  B.C. on  Wed Jun 25 18:20 CST 2003
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Hi Guys and Gals -

The wifemobile, a 1988 244GL in gorgeous metallic Volvo color blue, is showing a problem with the paint on the hood. In one rather large area in looks as if the color is fading under the clear coat.

In several other spots, one the size of a quarter, the clear coat is departing. On the edges of the bad spots the clear coat is lifting off the base coat, and peeling away.

The PO told me that the RF was messed up when his wife whacked the frame of the garage door. Hmmm.. I checked around the underside edges of the hood for any ridge left at the edge of the masking tape and found none. Doesn't seem that the hood was painted in the repair process.

What should be done to stem the problem? Get a shop to repaint the hood? Just new clear coat?

I dunno from paint, except that using the Volvo touch-up kits is easy but always leaves tiny brush marks.

Thanks for your time and info.

Regards,

Bob

:>)






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