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Finaltheorem47
'99 Dodge Dakota, clear coat failed, looks like surfaces that were exposed to direct sunlight the longest was where it failed. Anyways, I am trying to clean up my car including refinishing it. It's not a show car and will remain a daily driver so I don't need to go the extra mile but I do want to do a good job.
I started sanding and the basecoat where the clear had chipped off was super hard, 36 grit was only very slowly removing material (when compared to sanding clear/base/primer on other parts of the car that hadn't failed). I went all the way down to E-coat, because well I'd rather not go to metal and just sand the sections where the clear coat failed down to E-coat only, undamaged clear on the rest of the car will get 400/scruff pad. However, I noticed that the basecoat where the clear coat failed has these tiny fractal like cracks in it, and sanding down to the E-coat I can still see these fractal like cracks. Can I disregard that? Paint over it with SPI Epoxy and then base/clear? Or do I need to sand all of the E-coat off?
This is clear coat failing:
This is close up of basecoat on roof (not sanded yet):
This is close up of E-Coat after sanding off basecoat:
I started sanding and the basecoat where the clear had chipped off was super hard, 36 grit was only very slowly removing material (when compared to sanding clear/base/primer on other parts of the car that hadn't failed). I went all the way down to E-coat, because well I'd rather not go to metal and just sand the sections where the clear coat failed down to E-coat only, undamaged clear on the rest of the car will get 400/scruff pad. However, I noticed that the basecoat where the clear coat failed has these tiny fractal like cracks in it, and sanding down to the E-coat I can still see these fractal like cracks. Can I disregard that? Paint over it with SPI Epoxy and then base/clear? Or do I need to sand all of the E-coat off?
This is clear coat failing:
This is close up of basecoat on roof (not sanded yet):
This is close up of E-Coat after sanding off basecoat: