1995 Cobra peeling white paint

[IDTag]

Finally starting to piece my basket case Cobra back together. Paint is peeling on the roof, trunk lid and passenger rear quarter. Spent quite a bit of time searching but maybe it's too old a problem for current info. Was the primer the problem or was it the paint? Paint is original, not a repaint.

Going to repaint the panels, pretty much a dedicated track car so a close match will be good enough. I'm just not sure if sanding and sealing the old primer will do it or if you have to take it down to bare metal. Don't want to have the new paint start delaminating and end up right back here.

 

[ttocs]

if that is the crystal white curse, then it is the primer but it isn't. I read they experimented with using no primer on that color and well..... Bad part is you can't just spray over the old stuff as it will still peel, it needs to be stripped first.

 

[Wmac]

My white GTS has had clear coat failure on roof, hood, top of fenders, sail panels, etc, etc.
Original base coat (ZR) has not failed/peeled.

Done some hack repairs. Sand, seal & colour coat.

 

[Flade]

Crystal white will peel, it’s just a matter of time. On my wife’s, GY it seems to be the white peeling away from the primer.

 

[IDTag]

Same as mine, primer is still intact, paint delaminated and flaked off.

Actually found another small spot on the driver's quarter so job is getting bigger.

 

[RAU03MACH]

paint the whole car call it done

 

[ttocs]

like I said you can't paint over it because the base layer will still fail and peel.

 

[white95]

Been there.. A fresh paint job was the solution.

 

[IDTag]

Oh this was DISTURBINGLY easy! Obviously no way you could do this with a decent paint job. This is the original paint, car has about 59k on it. This was the roof, trunk was just as easy. Obviously going to have to strip it all off but not so worried now. Have stripped a good OEM paint job before and it was a lot of work.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2681537072234783

 

[RAU03MACH]

no primer

 

[IDTag]

There is something under the paint, not just bare metal.

 

[RAU03MACH]

no primer

 

[ttocs]

I think there is some kind of coating on the steel as often as I have seen it, I have never seen them rusting from the spots although I am sure it has happened on some car somewhere in the rustbelt. But as I said above the info I got was they were wanting to experiment with cutting some costs by taking the primer out of the price and using a slightly different paint.

 

[IDTag]

Agree with that, some of the paint has been gone for a long time and no rust. Whatever it is does change color with UV exposure.

 

[Slice]

paint the whole car call it done

Still a bitch to strip it first.

 

[Slice]

Now that I think of it, there's a chunk off the lead edge of my trunk about the size of a 25-cent piece, paint entirely gone off but it's not Rusty at all so I'm just going to keep it as is for now for patina. The rest of the car doors hoods fenders are good.

 

[IDTag]

The areas that were still covered with paint look like sealer, kind of that green/gray color. Areas that were exposed for a while turned primer gray.

 

[RAU03MACH]

Still a bitch to strip it first.

strip the car down wipe it down with alcohol let dry then primer then paint then a sealer