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Clear Coat Blurry - Need Help Plz
Me & my father spent 2 weeks preping & re-spraying my R31.
He's a hobby-ist, knows a fair bit about spraying, he's done a few cars before & done his own RX7 about 4 or 5 times now (changing colours, experimenting & learning).
We took no short-cuts. He made me work my rear end off. Dang, I'm so over sanding!!
We sprayed it in an acrylic metallic black, a Nissan Skyline R34 colour named "Black Pearl". BV5 I think the code is. Although the actual R34 is enamal.
From memory, we done about 4 coats of colour & 8 coats of clear, 2 of which were cut back.
Heres how it looked the next morning after the job was finally done, the clear was cut back & the car was polished & waxed, about 9 months ago:
Since then, the clear coat had started to blurr & get an ugly haze to it, for no apparent reason. We first thought it may have been the products used in the local car-wash, where I like to occasionally go & manually use each product with a gun & soap-broom.
So about 2 months ago, we cut another layer or 2 of clear back. The boot, roof & bonnet needed more work than the sides.
We used Meguiar's swirl remover, cutting compound, a buffer & Meguiar's yellow wax.
After that, it was good-as-new again. Maybe better than the first time.
Since then I have used no products at all, only water & a chamois at home. The car is always garaged, & only sits out in the open (no trees or shade) for 10hrs, 4 days a week, while Im at work.
Last week I finally got fed-up, noticing that the clear was starting to haze again. So I hosed down the car, got out the dishwashing detergent & cleaned it to remove all wax & polish. I then re-waxed it, & realised it had done absolutely nothing at all to the shine, but made it smoother & slippery-er.
Heres how it looks today, after washing it with water & chamoising it:
Is there any way I could fix this quickly & easily, without having to take it to a painter's & spend thousands?..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
He's a hobby-ist, knows a fair bit about spraying, he's done a few cars before & done his own RX7 about 4 or 5 times now (changing colours, experimenting & learning).
We took no short-cuts. He made me work my rear end off. Dang, I'm so over sanding!!
We sprayed it in an acrylic metallic black, a Nissan Skyline R34 colour named "Black Pearl". BV5 I think the code is. Although the actual R34 is enamal.
From memory, we done about 4 coats of colour & 8 coats of clear, 2 of which were cut back.
Heres how it looked the next morning after the job was finally done, the clear was cut back & the car was polished & waxed, about 9 months ago:
Since then, the clear coat had started to blurr & get an ugly haze to it, for no apparent reason. We first thought it may have been the products used in the local car-wash, where I like to occasionally go & manually use each product with a gun & soap-broom.
So about 2 months ago, we cut another layer or 2 of clear back. The boot, roof & bonnet needed more work than the sides.
We used Meguiar's swirl remover, cutting compound, a buffer & Meguiar's yellow wax.
After that, it was good-as-new again. Maybe better than the first time.
Since then I have used no products at all, only water & a chamois at home. The car is always garaged, & only sits out in the open (no trees or shade) for 10hrs, 4 days a week, while Im at work.
Last week I finally got fed-up, noticing that the clear was starting to haze again. So I hosed down the car, got out the dishwashing detergent & cleaned it to remove all wax & polish. I then re-waxed it, & realised it had done absolutely nothing at all to the shine, but made it smoother & slippery-er.
Heres how it looks today, after washing it with water & chamoising it:
Is there any way I could fix this quickly & easily, without having to take it to a painter's & spend thousands?..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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