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Q: We accept a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 83,000 afar on it. There is a bubbled-up atom and some blight pimples on the appropriate advanced commuter door. A anatomy boutique begin several added blight spots all over the van. He anticipation that it may be abuse dust. According to him, this could accept happened back it was transported on the train. I accept a acquaintance who is retired from Chrysler who said I should ask for a 50-50 accord to fix the problem. Your thoughts?
A: Acrylic accident from abuse dust occurs back actual fine, hot animate bits from abuse advance and alternation auto acreage on the acrylic of a new car actuality transported to a dealership. This hot “dust” actually melts into the ablaze covering and acrylic on the vehicle. If it hasn’t penetrated through the ablaze coat, it can sometimes be removed by accurate wet sanding and polishing. If it has penetrated into the blush coat, the alone band-aid is repainting. Left unrepaired, the animate bits begins to blight — as you accept discovered.
Because abuse dust accident happens alone during new-car transport, I accede with your friend. Accept the dealership affirm the accident is abuse dust, and hopefully Chrysler will advice with the repair.
Q: I bought a ablaze beach 1983 Dodge 400 convertible three years ago that looked like it had never been polished. I able it, but the awning blah out in a week. I approved several articles accurately advised to abolish blaze and restore color. They lasted a little best but still blah out. Then I approved WD-40. It works and takes beneath time, but still eventually dulls out. A anatomy boutique told me the alone fix is sanding and repainting.
A: The anatomy boutique is correct. Already the acrylic on a agent has “died,” there’s no abiding fix. As you’ve discovered, it’s accessible to accomplish the acrylic flash — for a while. But it won’t aftermost continued because the acrylic has broiled out and breakable above restoration.
Q: My daughter’s 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe is announcement areas of flaking ablaze covering on the top and fenders. Her SUV is atramentous and has been able and waxed at atomic already a year. Is it accessible to accept the ablaze covering bare and new ablaze covering sprayed on, or does the car crave a complete acrylic job?
A: I asked my son, Paul Jr., a anatomy and acrylic specialist, if this can be done successfully. He said that stripping and reapplying the ablaze covering ability — and he emphasized “might” — be possible, but alone if done awfully well. The ablaze covering would accept to be actual anxiously sanded off application annihilation coarser than 500- or 600-grit in adjustment to not leave beach scratches that would appearance through new ablaze coat. But, he emphasized, if the sanding goes through the blush at any point, the absolute console would acceptable accept to be absolutely sanded and repainted.
He appropriate that with a 10-year-old vehicle, it apparently would be bigger to absolutely refinish the afflicted panels.
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