Dodgy paint

[mick.]

Can anyone help out. My 98 gu in forest green is starting to fade on the bonnet. Is very faded on the front of the roof and the clear coat (I think) is starting to peel on the rear right quarter and rear drivers side door.

I wanna look at getting it patched up but have been told that the paint used on my model was a dodgy batch from Canada not right for aus conditions and its not worth patching because it will peel/fade again. I have been told that I would need to get a full respray sanded back to metal etc which would cost a bucket load. I.E not worth doing.

Is this true/reliable or should I still get it patched. I don't wanna fork out heaps of cash for the job just looking to tidy it up a little bit.

Hi mate being a spray painter and ex paint rep myself I can tell you that no one would have a clue if it was a bad batch of paint from Canada without doing tonnes of research. It sounds to me like it's a great example of an ex hail job that had most of the work PDRed (paintless dent removal) What a lot of insurance companies are doing these days when there massive hail storms is there doing PDR where possable, replacing the bonnet so it gets resprayed and the roof gets repaired and painted and the rear quarter panels and door was painted because of cracked paint or something. I could even guess that it was painted in PPG as it has a habit of going chalky and flaking after a few years. Any half decent paint shop will be able to repaint your bonnet, roof, quarter and door without having to respray the rest of the 4wd. There is a very good chance that the bonnet and roof will need to be taken back to the factory primer or possibly paint stripped though. There is no point repainting the panels without removing the cause first.

You may find not being the original owner it has previously been resprayed.

I had mine resprayed about 10 years ago due to a roll on its side, it was covered by insurance.

In the last year I have notice considerable bonnet fade but more upsetting is the roof has very small cracks in the paintwork all over and in some parts its peeling. I believe that being an insurance repair that there was no prep work done and they have sprayed straight over the top of the old paint

Most insurance work has a life time warranty on the repairs and paint for the whole time you own the car. This means if you owned the car at the time and this was done though insurance then it's still under warranty. How the warranty works is different with every insurance company and also the paint company can get involved also.

Cheers Mick.