to repair or not to be repaired

[BlueTooth]

This is the roof line of a 98 Mitsu Eclipse GS. original paint, These spots are from my mom washing my brothers car with sop detergent adn I was wondering if these spots could be repaired. They feel really rough





and heres a close up on the worse spot



if it cant be repaired I know that it would have to be repainted, But since Im the only amature detailer in the family I wanted to save the paint, this car would have been mine if I would not haev pointed it out to my brother, since he saw that I liked it he got it.

[sneek]

looks like a clear coat failure
your only choice is to repaint

[Accumulator]

Looks that way to me too

[the other pc]

That's not from a one time washing with detergent, it's from years of exposure, neglect and maybe a bunch of washings with detergent.

In the darker spots the clear coat has failed completely and exposed the base coat. The cloudy areas are severely deteriorated clear coat.

You can make some of it look better and maybe there are other parts to the car that can be made to look pretty good but, like the others said, the bottom line is that it needs a new paint job.


PC.

[BlueTooth]

thats what I thought too, but the roof is only part of the car thats "deteriorating" the rest looks pretty new, all it really needs is a good polish adn wax job, I think that it has only been waxed only once. SInce my mom likes to use detergent I asked her to stop but she didnt adn this happened, so I hid all the detergent away until it was needed for dishes.... adn I bought her car wash soap... I wish that i could have saved the paint but its too late. Wish I could have become car crazy a little eariler. Thanks anyways you guys

[RZ Autodetailing]

Ut Oh ....better get Macco

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Originally posted by RZ Autodetailing
Ut Oh ....better get Macco

lol you mine as well go to walmart and buy auto spray paint and do it yourself. Oh the horror stories i heard and seen about that place. . Kid i knew worked there and they dont even wash the car before they paint it and they dont do your door jams or under the trunk. As the ol' saying goes, what you pay for is what you get.

[RZ Autodetailing]

i was just kiddin....i would never recommend someone to go there...

[scarface_]

Originally posted by RZ Autodetailing
i was just kiddin....i would never recommend someone to go there...

I know, i was just telling newbies who don't know much about maaco how they are. Some people look at it like damn 190 bucks to paint my whole car, now thats a deal. After 2 weeks tho they go outside and look at their car and they're like seeing all the paint peeling off. I figure that most ppl here know that though