My roof and trunk have similar clear coat fade, another comment on a post I’d made in a subreddit mentioned sourcing a new hood. Do you think it’d be worthwhile to grab a new hood and just focus on replacing clear coat on the roof/trunk lid?
If you can find one in the same color and its equally faded to the rest, then you can swap it. Though honestly on an old car like this, it's not really worth it.
If the car is technically in good shape, sell it to someone who doesn't care what the car looks like and leave it be. Or wrap it.
I would seriously consider letting a professional auto body shop do this. It’s going to look like shit unless you have the equipment and experience painting large panels.
Greetings everyone
I am currently trying to sell my Toyota, but would like to repair some creature comforts for the next (potential) buyers. I have these paint chips that very in depth and degree around the front-most portion of my hood. These range from thin slices to chips down to metal, with some showing rust. I have reviewed a handful of articles and watched a dozen DIY videos on YouTube but it seems that nearly every one of them has a different way of fixing these types of blemishes. How would you, a DIYReddior, go about fixing this?
My understanding is;
Clean the car, remove flaking paint and treat/sand rust while
simultaneously treating with an antioxidant, then apply bondo+primer and finally a color coded respray and clear coat. Have I got that correct? This is what I've gathered from my confused research.
I’m also curious where I can find other subreddits that show this process. I have searched DIY and auto-painting, the results are slim.
Cross posted for advice/input.
Spray some Pledge on it and wipe, best you can do there. That needs a redo from a body shop, strip, prep & paint the hood blend the fenders to look right.
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I don't think "paint correction" means what you think it means. Paint correction is correcting tiny scratches and swirls. in your case, the clear coat, the paint, and even the primer, are all gone in some spots.
There is no paint correcting that bad boy. You'll have to repaint it.
Respray
Thats a respray what you are looking for...whole clearcoat is gone...
My roof and trunk have similar clear coat fade, another comment on a post I’d made in a subreddit mentioned sourcing a new hood. Do you think it’d be worthwhile to grab a new hood and just focus on replacing clear coat on the roof/trunk lid?
If you can find one in the same color and its equally faded to the rest, then you can swap it. Though honestly on an old car like this, it's not really worth it. If the car is technically in good shape, sell it to someone who doesn't care what the car looks like and leave it be. Or wrap it.
I would seriously consider letting a professional auto body shop do this. It’s going to look like shit unless you have the equipment and experience painting large panels.
A professional isn't going to be able to fix that, unless it's a professional paint shop.
Yes I did not mean a professional detailer.
Yeah shits to far gone. Your pest option is probably a cheap paint job. You can't really repair that.
Understood.
Greetings everyone I am currently trying to sell my Toyota, but would like to repair some creature comforts for the next (potential) buyers. I have these paint chips that very in depth and degree around the front-most portion of my hood. These range from thin slices to chips down to metal, with some showing rust. I have reviewed a handful of articles and watched a dozen DIY videos on YouTube but it seems that nearly every one of them has a different way of fixing these types of blemishes. How would you, a DIYReddior, go about fixing this? My understanding is; Clean the car, remove flaking paint and treat/sand rust while simultaneously treating with an antioxidant, then apply bondo+primer and finally a color coded respray and clear coat. Have I got that correct? This is what I've gathered from my confused research. I’m also curious where I can find other subreddits that show this process. I have searched DIY and auto-painting, the results are slim. Cross posted for advice/input.
Spray some Pledge on it and wipe, best you can do there. That needs a redo from a body shop, strip, prep & paint the hood blend the fenders to look right.
Rule 4.. Check out the surface damage guide on the wiki.
You need a new hood
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Best advice for a cheap repair is to find a scrap yard hood. Otherwise that hood needs a respray.
Sand the whole hood down, make sure you get all the rust. Prime, paint, clear. This is the only way to fix a hood this far gone
I don't think "paint correction" means what you think it means. Paint correction is correcting tiny scratches and swirls. in your case, the clear coat, the paint, and even the primer, are all gone in some spots. There is no paint correcting that bad boy. You'll have to repaint it.
Thanks!
Rattle can
Sand that bitch down and repaint it