Take a look at this paint.

[tuscarora dave]

That's definitely clear coat failure, the type I always referred to as "Clearcoat Fracturing" where the clear seems to have become brittle, shrunken and cracks all over. This damage is seen often when a car is parked under trees long term and is subjected to a constant bombardment of acidic tree dirt. The question that comes to my mind though is, is the white looking haze we see, oxidation on top of the failed clear, or is it between the failed clear and the base coat? I've dealt with it both ways, so until you'd get the pad to the paint for some testing, you'll never know.

If it were topical oxidation, and could be buffed to some semblance of clarity, that car would be a perfect candidate for "Optimum Polymer Technologies CCR".

 

[ZRX61]

I sure hope that isn’t OEM paint as it looks like 10-15 year old Honda paint. And I agree it looks like clearcoat failure and incredibly bad for a 5-year old vehicle.

Oddly enough I have a 17year old Honda & parts of the paint look exactly like that.

 

[57Rambler]

My '89 Coupe de Ville has cracked paint on the driver's door and AFAIK it's not a repaint. Maybe this is something Cadillac has always experienced sometimes.

Nah, it wouldn't be a Caddy problem as the GM assembly plants source their paint ... Lansing, Arlington, Spring Hill, etc., could potentially all be using different suppliers at any given time.

 

[dgage]

Oddly enough I have a 17year old Honda & parts of the paint look exactly like that.

I had a 12 year old at the time Acura TL that had failing clear coat and I had it repainted and it was a great repaint job and made the car look like new so I kept it several more years.