SwEeTWs6

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Hey guys on my 98 bird left quater panel has all these spider cracks running through out the entire panel.... Ive noticed on the passenger side now thats its doing it aroud where the wing meets the rear glass. Has anyone else had this problem its absolutley horrible.... Let me know thanks...

Juje

I've got a 98Z and its got some spider web cracks on the driver side door

-SLEEPER-

Yea my 94 Camaro has the webs on the hood and front end but the rest of the car is perfect...i dunno of any way to fix this

Whistler

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Post up pics and I can help identify the problem

SwEeTWs6

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ok wil do tomorrow Thanks whistler....

vetman1

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Sounds like it may have to be stripped and repainted, where ever you have cracking. Once you post some pics I would be better able to tell you.

SwEeTWs6

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transmaro93

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those arent spider cracks.... spider web cracks are caused by stress... ie a bump not enought to crack the door but just enough to crack the paint... or you get spider webs when the eurathane bumpers start to get old and they dry out and crack... thats somthing called paint checking... also called crows feet i believe... (correct me if im wrong) i think that is cuased by poor undercoats and really the only way to fix it is to sand all the way down probably in most cases to bare metal and start fromscratch,,, etch prime, primer surfacers, sealer, paint, clear... if you just try to sand alittle and repaint over that thell come right back probably wont even cover... hope this helps ya... good luck

SwEeTWs6

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this blows monkeys damnit!!!!!!!!!!!

redramair98

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needs stripped to bare metal or it will always come back,

SwEeTWs6

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well im curious as to what caused it because the car was never painted....

SwEeTWs6

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anyone else?

Rhedalert

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I saw that kind of paint defect in late 70s, early 80's B-bodies my family owned back in the day. I thought it wasn't able to happen much anymore but I see I was wrong.

SwEeTWs6

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could i fight gm on this?

Whistler

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That's paint checking from either laquer, or single stage enamel with no hardener, or bad hardener. That's not factory paint I guarantee it. To fix it, all the affected paint has to be removed and the panel needs to be re-primered and repainted.

steady01

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damn that bad paint

SwEeTWs6

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Ill be so pissed when I put her back on the road and bring her to the body shop and the guy tells me she has been hit before.....

transmaro93

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really dont be... so far all of the cars iv owned before have either been hit or at least had some paint workon them.... youd be damn lucky to find a used car that hasnt had somekind of body work or paint work done... we get cars all the time at work that only have 5000 miles we just did an 07 santa fe with 1000 miles on it... and it was hit HARD... the only thing you can hope for is that it was repaired correctly... in this case i dont know... i have seen base clear jobs do this tho its not jsut single stages... at least i repeaired a hood on an s-10 that had this and it was base clear not single stage... but i doubt that is factory paint.... factory would more likely peel or bubble before that...

z28oc91

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i have that webing right on the front of my z by the camaro emblem, knowing its thier runs the whole front end but i didnt know this was a common issue, good to know!

2002nbmss

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You won't get anything out of GM on this one!!!! Car is too old!!! Sorry!