Can this be fixed or is a respray needed?

[ParanoidAndroid]

Hello,

After some advice with a paint issue on the bonnet of my daily car, a 130i. Basically the paint on the bonnet has gone as you can see in the pictures. I’m assuming it’s had a fairly poor respray in the past and the lacquer has gone but I could be wrong.

Just wondered if this is possible to recover and if so how best to go about it? Or is it a case of better to get the bonnet resprayed? It’s my daily car so don’t want to spend a fortune but given it’s a fairly uncommon 130i I’d
Ike it to at least look decent. Rest of the car is very clean.







Thanks for any advice you can provide!

[somouk]

Looks like oxidisation, wouldn’t hurt to try and polish it to see what happens.

[ParanoidAndroid]

Thanks for the feedback. Finally got a bit of spare time and managed to do a two stage cut (meguiars cutting compound) and finish (meguiars finishing wax). Still wasn’t 100% but certainly way better than it was.



However a week or so later it looks as if the oxidisation coming back again in the same places



Bit of a novice at this, is there something I’ve missed? Wonder if I should have applied a different wax?

Help appreciated as always chaps!

[somouk]

Polishing is just removing a tiny amount of the top layer of clear coat. If you see it worsening again afterwards then I would say there is likely a defect in the clear coat, likely from a previous poor repair.

In these situations it may need stripping and respraying, a body shop will be able to provide a proper answer and likely run a depth gauge over it to confirm if it has more paint on the area than the rest of the car.