I went to polish a hood on my parents Acura TL yesterday and noticed all those small white cross hatch scratches all over the front of the hood, it almost looks like the paint cracking on the front hood area near the headlights, those scratches are not on the front bumper or anywhere else, just front hood area. I have never noticed this before and I have looked at the hood several times when washing it/drying it. It is almost like they magically appeared when I started polishing, I thought I was possibly doing it with the pad like I got something in the pad but I noticed them all over the front area where I did not polish. They don't polish out, they seem down past the paint. My dad had a Black Accord that had basically the same thing all over the front of the hood. The Acura TL has had a coat of Opti Coat on it for about 2 years or so, I thought it could be the Opti Coat cracking but again my dad had a very similar thing on his Honda which was never polished or had opti coat.
The Acura TL is mostly parked in the garage, it is not driven too often nor does it really ever sit out in the sun or cold temps for a long time, it is washed every week and well cared for. It has never hit anything, front never received any kind of damage. It has been on a few long trips where some insects collected on the front but they never caused any permanent damage.
What could they possibly be, should I contact Acura if pre mature paint failure. What can I do about it aside from repainting the hood, Dr. Colorchip?
Oops, I just did a search and copied the link without opening it, but you're right it wouldn't open from this thread or the search window. It seems to be that apostrophe thing like is going on at Autopia, because none of the 4 threads that came up when I searched for "crow's feet" in the title would work (even though your thread doesn't have the apostrophe), but if I search on "crows feet" the links work. Weird.
If the paint color is Crystal Black Perl there was a recall on those cars. At least for my old Civic Si there was.
I am pretty positive the color is called Nighthawk Black Pearl for Acura which is what is on the TL. This is very disappointing if the paint is failing already. It is a 2008 and always garaged, always had a coat of wax, washed every week, the burden/cost of dealing that paint failure should not fall to owners especially when they had to have known this was a problem for a long time after a little research I did, pretty much all Honda's/Acura's effected since the 90's. My parents 96 Accord had the same thing but it was worse, I thought it might have been something my dad did like a grit or 2 of sand got caught in his buffer.
I guess I will be contacting American Honda.
Has anyone tried Dr. Colorchip on something like that, if you keep smearing it it may fill in the cracks, only problem is it will likely be removed when using the liquid to remove excess paint.
Has anyone tried Dr. Colorchip on something like that, if you keep smearing it it may fill in the cracks, only problem is it will likely be removed when using the liquid to remove excess paint.
I don't remember anyone ever trying it, but it seems like a good (although possibly temporary) solution. I'm not sure why the solvent wipe would be any more likely to remove the paint from a crow's foot than a chip.
Don't feel like your care had something to do with this, this usually is from engine heat, perhaps combined with sun heating on dark colors.
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