Paint chipping off! need some advice/help
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Paint chipping off! need some advice/help i recently purchased a 01 NBM Z28 A4 with ~125k miles on it for 3200. the driver side rear upper quarter panel near where the trunk lid the paint's (appears to be both clearcoat and paint) chipping/flaking off more and more (worse when it rains). and you can see the gray primer underneath it 
at some point i'll get the car repainted but that's a budget all on its own 
. for the time being is there anything i can do to stop the paint from chipping/flaking off?
at some point i'll get the car repainted but that's a budget all on its own . for the time being is there anything i can do to stop the paint from chipping/flaking off? Thread Starter
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^you mean plasti-dip it? if so i was going to ask if that's an idea and in black since there's no NBM. basically spray that area or the entire quarter panel? either way it'd look ghetto lol.
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No, spray the whole car.
They make kits that are relatively cheap to dip the whole car.
It lasts for a while too, should give you plenty of time to save for a paint job.
They actually make the plastidip in a huge variety of colors nowadays since they're gaining popularity.
They make kits that are relatively cheap to dip the whole car.
It lasts for a while too, should give you plenty of time to save for a paint job.
They actually make the plastidip in a huge variety of colors nowadays since they're gaining popularity.
I feel your pain. I have a swath of missing paint on my hood and the gray primer showing too. I'm not sure what is worse, the gray primer or the fact that the sun on the primer makes it turn dusty, then when it rains you get these gray dust streaks running down the side. Blah!
Can't wait to repaint my car to fix everything, but man it will be expensive. Gotta replace my roof panel too.
Can't wait to repaint my car to fix everything, but man it will be expensive. Gotta replace my roof panel too.
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The problem is, while relatively inexpensive vs a full paint job, it's still very expensive for starting out (having to buy the sprayer and stuff), easily in the 400-500 dollar range to get the equipment and dip for the first dip job.
a cheap option (and something I did back in the day before plasti-dip was what it is today) is to remove as much flaking paint as possible (a high pressure car wash wand is a good start) then sand the edges of the paint to feather them down and tape off the area (leaving several inches of "good" paint exposed) and spray several coats of like a primer sealer or paint of your choice over the area. This worked for me when the Maaco paint job flaked of the hood of a car I bought (was painted more then a year before I bought it).
all that said, if you want a good paint job that will last, you will need to remove the current paint before you do the NEW paint job, doesn't make any sense to put new paint on top of paint that has a history of bubbling and peeling.
at that point and with the advances in plasti-dip in recent years it might make more sense to go that route.
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.Not as nice as a paint job but they can look very nice.
They are in the $400-$500 range which is substantially way cheaper than a good paint job, but not as good.
Catch 22 I guess.
I would recommend the plasti though, I think it looks nice.
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i agree. plastic-dip can look nice if done right. however the cost of repainting the entire car can be as much as $2k. also the plastic-dip kit, it needs an air compressor, which i dont have unfortunately which kinda sucks :-\
wonder if the small portable air compressors would be enough?
wonder if the small portable air compressors would be enough?
i agree. plastic-dip can look nice if done right. however the cost of repainting the entire car can be as much as $2k. also the plastic-dip kit, it needs an air compressor, which i dont have unfortunately which kinda sucks :-\
wonder if the small portable air compressors would be enough?
wonder if the small portable air compressors would be enough?
But OP you can buy this DYC DipSprayer System.
https://www.dipyourcar.com/dyc-dipsprayer.html
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I have a nickle-sized chip from the previous owner on my rear fender as well, right by the antenna. I used one of those cheap clearcoat pens on it to just seal it up a bit and stop it from flaking. Held up for a few months through a lot of hand washing/detailing. It's in storage now but I'll get it touched up in the spring.
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i havent attempted to yet because the previous owner also scrapped a the passenger front fender and a bit of the door when they were turning into their garage (they was drunk at that time from what i've been told) which was one of the reasons why i got the car so low. so if i'm going to paint the car, might as well do the entire car.