2500M: peeling paint

[Renaldo]

Guys, some photos of the rear of my 2500M. As you can see, some of the paint has peeled off. The respray was done many years ago, and doesn't look half bad other than these areas which have peeled.

Would you recommend a professional touch up here, or is this a pretty easy do-it-yourself job?

If do-it-yourself, any tips on prepping and painting these areas?

Ron

[dryden]

Hi Renaldo,
The problem with peeling paint is that the substrate is poorly prepared, usually, if as in your case the substrate is a previous paint job, then where it is peeling is usually where the old paint has not been rubbed down enough, so the problem with local repairs is that you have to feather the edges down, and that means chasing the paint edge to the point of adhesion. Only then can you re-paint. So it might be a very big patch...........

Clive

[Renaldo]

Clive, that's what I was afraid of. In the picture, you can see the paint is lifting well beyond the patch that's already peeled.

Just curious: what would constiture proper prep of that area to ensure proper adhesion?

The rest of the paint on the car seems to me holding up pretty well, although it's far from a great paint job...

Ron

[dryden]

Biggest pain in the butt will be removing the bumper and tail light, then use 600grit wet and dry, and use wet with a bucket of warm soapy water, and rub the area till you cannot feel an edge! Then spray with a thick primer surfacer, leave for a few days to really dry , flat it again and local spray.
The back panel of an M is well defined with a sharp edge behind the window, going down to the tail lights, I would mask it along that edge, and respray the whole back panel, that way you would lose the paint matching problem as well.
And dont do it in the wet weather!

Clive

[dryden]

By the way, CAREFULLY remove your ultra rare M badge, and fit it in its proper place when you have re painted.

[RCK974X]

I hate to be even more down on the peeling paint, but I had to strip my Vixen right down to the GRP eventually, as there were so many paint layers that they started to curl around edges etc, and by the time I started lifting the piant I realised it was too bad to repair.

peeling paint is down to poor bonding. this can be caused by several things, even down to not cleaning the previous paint layer. Also, despite what experts say, different makes of paint can react over long periods and flake off.

Hopefully, you've only got one patch to do....

[ Sorry, but I think you need to know ]

[Renaldo]

Hmm. Sure doesn't sound good. All of that peeling is in and around the rear panel.

There's a local guy I know of who specializes in touch-ups -- how good he really is, who knows.

I may get him around to take a look and give me his opinion.

Money being a little tight, I prefer to avoid any full-fledged resprays. If I can get by with a decent-looking economy "touch up" , I'll go with it.

Maybe get a year or two out of it.

Ron