Can you recommend a ceramic coating for my 30yr old Toyota

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After 16 years I finally work morning shift to be home with my family at night. The first day driving home in traffic I got 2 compliments on my car in my short drive home but I knew the poor condition of my paint and it bothers me even more now.
The clearcoat is failing and it looks really hazy in some areas. I have a black 1991 celica all-trac with bronze rims.

Yesterday I washed, then used my clay mitt and then began the paint correction with my flex 3401, lake country orange pads and menzerna 400. My orange pads were becoming black..... I know that combo was hard on the paint but I didn't have time to experiment. Plus it was in really bad shape.

My paint looks MUCH better and actually black now but I can't afford a respray now. Could you recommend a ceramic coating that will help preserve the paint on my car?

I have a classic project car that takes up my garage so all my cars get parked outside in the sun and it gets hot here were I live. Summers reach 104 on average. I've seen 110*f

I'm looking for something that will last with proper care of course. Can you recommend something besides a paint job ha ha ha. Thanks

Here are some before and after. My phone really highlights the bad areas on my paint. It looks much better in person
 
My son is using turtle wax hybrid solutions ceramic spray I got from the autogeek store and it works good but I don't know if that would be the best for my situation.
 
No coating is going to last on clear coat failure or keeping it from continuing to fail.
 
I know nothing will stop it from failing more and more but what can help slow down the failing the best?
 
Once it starts going it’s pretty much hard to stop it. You can use what you mentioned but don’t expect miracles.
 
Use the TW, it will help and it's easy to use and inexpensive.

The before and after looks 100 times better.
 
As said above there is nothing you can do to really stop it. The reason is what is degrading the paint is UV =the sun. I have used CquartzUK, one of the best ceramics out there, on a Honda Civic with clearcoat failure to no avail. What you need to do is repaint it or cover it with wrap, any clear ceramic will still let the UV come through and further degrade the clearcoat. It’s a cancer, once it starts you can’t stop it.
 
Maybe keep something like Opt Spray Wax to limit further damage by uv but as others said, damage is already done.
 
I don't know but can a clearcoat be applied again or does the everything need to be striped and applied again?

Just curious
 
I have been considering painting my 69 mustang later this year.... I have a 2 stage 80 gal 5hp air compressor and I've been looking into systems to clean the air properly from it for my plasma cutter.

Painting this car or applying a clear coat will just be practice and since I'm not 100% picky on the end results, why not
 
You have completely oxidized the base color so sell the schedule for painting would be as follows:
1. Sand completely down to bare metal
2.spray primer two coats
3. Spray base color two coats
4. Spray clear 2 to 3 coats
Wait 30-60 days
5. Polish with compound, then finishing polish.

Hillbilly way to do it would be eliminate the primer and just spray black enamel.
 
The Guz said:
Not designed for clear coat failure repair. Optimum has states this. Tried it myself and it didn’t help from stopping clear coat failure.

Unfortunately no shortcut for a respray.
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Good to know before I spent $100 on this :props:
 
If you want to use rattle can you absolutely can do it. Rattle cans don’t work so well on the large panels but for segmented areas it works very well. I’ve done it a couple times. These are the guys to go to if you want to buy custom order color rattle cans that completely match your paint, they are excellent.

Touch Up Paint and repair | AutomotiveTouchup
 
Yeah, it's hard to make a partial repaint (As in top areas that have sun damage.) not look hokay. Any way you go, simple seems to just make it difficult.

You could make the tops of the side panels and trunk look fine with rattle cans. Just use a pinstripe along an upper body line as a transition so you don't have to mess with having to blend.

Then, do the prep work and have a not too expensive body shop (Maaco?) spray the roof and hood matte black. Or there's vinyl for that area if you feel comfortable with it. But that puts you into two different techniques to be proficient in.
 
I already had to do some bodywork/paint/clearcoat on this car. The whole right rear quarter panel. The paint from a old repair cracked and it was like that for years.
One day I got brave and got my heat gun and heater the area and a putty knife. I did have a ### am I doing moment but in the end it came out okay. I had to reshape the fender and I used rattle cans.
The paint already had primer I think and I used the 2k primer cans. Deadly stuff too. I'm happy with the results
 
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