Hi all, I bought an 07 plate mcs a little over a week ago, 48k on the clock in very good condition. I've driven the car for a week or so and done c400 miles.
Loving the car absolute blast.
Today I've looked at the front bumper above the number plate and seen that the paint appears to be blistering in several areas, one around the size of a 2p piece. It looks like the top coat of lacquer has been stripped. I'm 99.9% certain it wasn't like this when I bought it.
Things that may be relevent; Roads have been very wet in the uk and I have noted that the bonnet above the turbo has been very hot after use. Essentially I'm trying to think if there is any way that this has happened whilst in my ownership of whether it was already damaged.
Might not be the original paintwork? It may have been repainted and you have to use a paint for plastic surfaces with a plasticiser in it so the paint can flex without if cracking and lifting off.
Some folk just put normal paint on it when repairing which lasts a sort time before lifting off. could be the reason?
Have you sorted these blisters? or maybe smbody else had the same. I have the same ones on my car. Is it possible to get rid of them without repainting the car? and why do they appear?
Are yours appearing on the plastic body pieces or the metal?
Plastic can be the use of the incorrect paint as stated above, and paint lifting/bubbling on the metal surface can be due to rust under the paint, or moisture in the airline when it was being painted and this is now bleeding through to the surface.
You dont have to repaint the whole car no, but the affected areas will need local repainting after taking the original back down, sometimes to the metal to find out why its doing it?
Thats a fault in the top clear coat, the lacquer, not bonding properly to the colour coat below it, causing it to peel off.
You may remember the old Mk 2 Ford Cortina colour Silver Fox? that suffered dreadful from peeling of the top coat and that needed a total repaint to correct it.
I doubt you could just re lacquer it as you would need to rub it down first and that would then go into colour coat below it and mark it.
You could try carefully removing the clear coat only by sanding and you might just get away with it if its not metallic, but it really for a proper job it needs the affected area taking back and redoing from the base coat up.
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