Odrapnew
07-10-2020, 11:00 AM
So, I finally got my 89 Mustang out of winter storage last weekend.
The paint on the car has never been great, especially the hood.
When I picked it up 15 years ago, the seller said he had the hood re-clearcoated and it started to peal.
I fairly certain the car was repainted as some point, with what I believe is a single stage paint (still to be confirmed).
I don't know if this car had BC/CC from the factory in 89 or if it was a SS paint.
Attached are a few pictures of the hood showing the pealing.
I'm not sure if this is showing basecoat exposed where the clear coat is gone or not. When I hit it with wax, it does shine up nicely and I can remove most of the haze on the 'exposed' areas.
I've never compounded or polished the paint, but I planned to try that this year.
Car was waxed sometime mid-summer last year, is as close to daily driven in the summer as possible and is always garaged. Again, just pulled out of garaged storage last week after sitting for ~6 months.
Any thoughts? This pealing is only on the hood.
This first picture, to the right of the light, it's very glossy and looks to be clear coat.
https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=70062&d=1594396087
https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=70061&d=1594396074
The paint on the car has never been great, especially the hood.
When I picked it up 15 years ago, the seller said he had the hood re-clearcoated and it started to peal.
I fairly certain the car was repainted as some point, with what I believe is a single stage paint (still to be confirmed).
I don't know if this car had BC/CC from the factory in 89 or if it was a SS paint.
Attached are a few pictures of the hood showing the pealing.
I'm not sure if this is showing basecoat exposed where the clear coat is gone or not. When I hit it with wax, it does shine up nicely and I can remove most of the haze on the 'exposed' areas.
I've never compounded or polished the paint, but I planned to try that this year.
Car was waxed sometime mid-summer last year, is as close to daily driven in the summer as possible and is always garaged. Again, just pulled out of garaged storage last week after sitting for ~6 months.
Any thoughts? This pealing is only on the hood.
This first picture, to the right of the light, it's very glossy and looks to be clear coat.
https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=70062&d=1594396087
https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=70061&d=1594396074