Serj22
Well-Known Member
I have had my car for over 2 years now, and it's been outside that whole time. It was my understanding when I bought it that the P.O. had it painted two years before that, so this paint job is 4 years old likely. He mentioned it was a paint jail thing, where he paid someone to paint the car, it was there for almost a year till finally he was tired of not having a painted car, and told the guy he'd give him $500 to just finish it presentably and give it back.
So it had some runs and stuff, and the guy shot a metallic on it, but didn't keep it mixed in the gun on a couple spots it looks like. This was all livable. Not a big deal. It's Iridium Bronze Metallic, and the color matches the unpainted door jambs very well.
I keep wax on the car about every 3 months, and wash it weekly, but what I have noticed recently is one morning I washed it and these little scratches showed up. I always use microfiber and then a shammy to dry - but immediately thought I had brushed it with dirt or something and scratched it. But this only appeared on the trunk lid, and over time it seems to have "spread" to the tops of the Rear quarters. It is however not present on the back of the trunk lid where the fratszog emblem is, just above my tail stripe and towards the window.
It appears nowhere else on the car at all, and is just in this area horizontally across the car.
My question is, is this fading paint? Or? I don't believe there's a clear coat, and it just looks really odd. It also only shows up at one specific angle, so it's hard to take a picture of.
Buffing did nothing but make the rest of the paint look awesome, and this still look the same. What can I do about this - or is repainting my only option? Still strange why it's just in this one spot.
If you look directly above the "U" and "P" on my stripe, you see a lighter bronze blotch, it's not a blotch, but a bunch of horizontal "scratches" like this and it is all over the trunk lid. Like I said, hard to take a picture of - sorry. But also, like i mentioned early, everything behind the stripe is clean and does not have this effect at all. I'm stumped... And of course from any other angle than this, it is not visible...
So it had some runs and stuff, and the guy shot a metallic on it, but didn't keep it mixed in the gun on a couple spots it looks like. This was all livable. Not a big deal. It's Iridium Bronze Metallic, and the color matches the unpainted door jambs very well.
I keep wax on the car about every 3 months, and wash it weekly, but what I have noticed recently is one morning I washed it and these little scratches showed up. I always use microfiber and then a shammy to dry - but immediately thought I had brushed it with dirt or something and scratched it. But this only appeared on the trunk lid, and over time it seems to have "spread" to the tops of the Rear quarters. It is however not present on the back of the trunk lid where the fratszog emblem is, just above my tail stripe and towards the window.
It appears nowhere else on the car at all, and is just in this area horizontally across the car.
My question is, is this fading paint? Or? I don't believe there's a clear coat, and it just looks really odd. It also only shows up at one specific angle, so it's hard to take a picture of.
Buffing did nothing but make the rest of the paint look awesome, and this still look the same. What can I do about this - or is repainting my only option? Still strange why it's just in this one spot.
If you look directly above the "U" and "P" on my stripe, you see a lighter bronze blotch, it's not a blotch, but a bunch of horizontal "scratches" like this and it is all over the trunk lid. Like I said, hard to take a picture of - sorry. But also, like i mentioned early, everything behind the stripe is clean and does not have this effect at all. I'm stumped... And of course from any other angle than this, it is not visible...