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Clear coat

November 30, 2017, 03:38:11 pm

I just noticed an area of missing clear coat. It is about the size of my hand, on the slide out of my 2003 coach.

Should I wait for next summer for my planned trip to Nac,  or is it in need of more urgent repair?

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Reply #1 – November 30, 2017, 04:25:42 pm

It should only be cosmetic.  The question is whether or not it will continue to peel and become larger.

Maybe you could apply something at the raw edge to keep it from getting worse until you can have it re-cleared.  Any body shop
should be able to tell you what.

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Reply #2 – November 30, 2017, 04:32:42 pm

Put some wax on it and hold out

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Reply #3 – November 30, 2017, 04:48:15 pm

Do not wax it...that gets in the pours of the paint and will play hell with the next painter. Don't worry about it for now...The whole slide will need to be re cleared when it's done anyway. When a body shop does get it..they will take high pressure air and blow around it to see if any more lifts...then they will sand it and spot in the base coat colors in the areas that peeled clear. Then they will clear the whole panel. It's nice that its a slide and not on an area that is HUGE..

Clear does not spot in. If you spot the clear in...the edges will haze over time. You don't want that.

I'm qualified...32 years of owning a Body Shop...

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Reply #4 – November 30, 2017, 05:22:51 pm

I bought some paint touch-up from Extreme and was told to use clear finger nail polish as clear coat.  Of course the places I touch up were very small.  You might consider carefully going around the edge with clear polish.  Better yet call James at Extreme and ask him the best thing to do.

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