Any hope for this paint ???

[Warez]

My other car is a '94 Sentra... it looking pretty bad. I'm just wondering if there's any hope for it at all.

WARNING! The following pictures are not for the weak of heart.

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Thanks,

-Gabriel

 

[Scottwax]

Short answer-no.



Repainting is your only hope at this point.

 

[paco]

Is that repaint or Factory Orginal. If it's factory, I'd call up Nissan and show them the pictures. That;s a pretty serious defect from the factory as no matter what little care the owner may have given, a clear shouldn't ever fail that badly. Reminds me of the Crysler New Yorker problem of the early 90's.



Paco

 

[Slackmeister]

Many nine year old cars look like that in the sun belt. My light blue metallic paint was starting to do that after seven years.

 

[thegeek]

Maybe wet-sanding like that one thread where someone had a link to the BMW that was re-did. Looked bad, now looks amazingly new. Looked like A LOT of work but cheaper than a repaint.

 

[shaf]

Excuse me while I defibrilate my heart!



Strike 1: It's red

Strike 2: Clear coat failure

 

[DaGonz]

Stick a fork in it...it's done!

 

[1andrews]

look at this way, you now have a canvas with which to practice using your favorite tool (PC? Rotary? you pick)

 

[jerry@robs]

To answer your question... No...



But...



It's a great time to practice wetsanding, rotary restoration and such... It won't solve much, but I'm pretty confident that you can make that look a tad better than it is now... if there's still enough paint left.

 

[Knight]

I don't think I have seen it that bad before. You must repaint.

Looks like swiss cheese. a 94? I am guessing around 75 / 95 thousand miles? Maybe you should buy a new car. It will make a great practice slate for your detailing hobby.



Good luck on your decision



:up

 

[mzgloves20]

Man, what did that bird eat b4 he flew over your car?????:shocked

 

[Scottwax]

Maybe wet-sanding like that one thread where someone had a link to the BMW that was re-did. Looked bad, now looks amazingly new. Looked like A LOT of work but cheaper than a repaint.

Yeah, but that was a single stage paint job. When clear coat/base coat paint jobs fail like that, repainting is the only hope since the base coat depends on the clear coat for it's shine.

 

[VetteToVair]

You can barely notice it :scared