Any hope for this Black Honda Accord?

Acer9103

Acer9103

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My brother's 99 black Honda accord has never been maintained .Is there anything I can do?Or does it need a new paint job?What about re clearing it?Thanks:buffing:
 
That looks like clear coat failure. A repaint is in order.

Gotta educate him on the necessity of waxing a car at least twice a year...
 
Generally when the paint begins to fail where separation is noticeable such as this it's time to take it to a professional paint shop...
 
It's easy to see that some hack ground the paint off of that car with a rotary and rocks in a bottle/wool pad. Wax would have done very little to nothing for it.
 
I got a question. If I bought two of the same car. One maintained and other one car wash, never waxed.

Does clear coat failure have to do with maintaining the car or the clear just goes bad?
 
slickooz said:
I got a question. If I bought two of the same car. One maintained and other one car wash, never waxed.

Does clear coat failure have to do with maintaining the car or the clear just goes bad?
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I dont believe negligence is the cause of clearcoat failure. Sure it might play a small role such as bird bombs/water spots and such etching into paint but no amount of LSP will prevent clearcoat failure. LSPs protect the paint from environmental damage such as the above by providing a slick finish, temporarily filling in microscopic valleys in the paint to decrease surface tension, but does nothing against UV degradation. No matter how much UV blockers there might be in the product over time, matter of hours, they start to drasticly degrade (think about sun block/screen). Coupled with the fact that some manufacturers used different/lower quality/or have insufficient film build. Some car companys are just more prone to clear coat failures which is easily seen if you look for it. With that being said I've notice many late 90s-early 00 Honda were prone to clear coat failure.
 
Lasthope05 said:
I dont believe negligence is the cause of clearcoat failure. Sure it might play a small role such as bird bombs/water spots and such etching into paint but no amount of LSP will prevent clearcoat failure. LSPs protect the paint from environmental damage such as the above by providing a slick finish, temporarily filling in microscopic valleys in the paint to decrease surface tension, but does nothing against UV degradation. No matter how much UV blockers there might be in the product over time, matter of hours, they start to drasticly degrade (think about sun block/screen). Coupled with the fact that some manufacturers used different/lower quality/or have insufficient film build. Some car companys are just more prone to clear coat failures which is easily seen if you look for it. With that being said I've notice many late 90s-early 00 Honda were prone to clear coat failure.
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Thanks for clearing it up for me. I have seen a couple cars that had clear coat failure and I was wondering if bringing it to the car wash actually cause it after a period of time.
 
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