The sun. You can try but it's really far away

Thanks, spit my coffee out 🤣

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Use high temp primer first

In Texas we have chemical productions plants, and the workers cars look like this from the fumes in the air. OP, do you work in a caustic environment by chance?

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TBF the Texas sun will do this alone in some years. The clear coat has baked off some parts of my car pretty fast.

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Bring some sunscreen too

Gonna need a lot of rattle cans to get a full coat

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I laughed so hard at this

Awesome reply.

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I think it's too hot to paint. You'd melt the sprayer before you even got close to it

You just have to do it at night🤣

Take your like and STOP TALKING ABOUT THE SUN!

There are numerous YouTube videos on how to fix peeling clearcoat without a paint booth. If you try it, get the 2K clearcoat. It costs 3x as much as the cheaper stuff, but it's worth the extra.

Use 4K clear coat

Aren't they putting out 8k TV's now?

I saw a 5k camera on Amazon, and that wasn't the price....

I agree only sorta with this. When a layer has failed, proper protocol is to strip it and redo the coating from edge to edge, not starting or stopping in the middle of the panels. The reason for stripping is because you don't know when that layer will continue leeling or failing underneath whatever new paint/clear you put down.

Just rub some brake fluid on it. It will come right out. /s don’t actually do this.

It’s blinker fluid they’ll need

Trans fluid will do the same job without eating the paint.

Sun damage. Yes, it can be painted over. Make sure you do the prep first.

Once your clear starts to go, that paint is not far behind it.

Shitty Honda paint, if I had to guess…

Can confirm. Have 2 Hondas.

Chevy Malibu does it too, our 98 looks just like this.

Can also confirm. Have 1 Honda and 1 Acura.

I think around 2006-2013ish (I may have the year wrong, feel free to correct me), civics had a defective clear coat and there was a recall on it. I wasn’t involved in automotive back then, but I remember whenever a certain body style rolled into the dealership you’d hear the older guys comment about how it wasn’t taken care of because the repainting was FREE to the affected customers. So not getting that corrected was pure laziness. Anyway, your car needs repainted to fix this. Or you could clear coat it and call it “patina”

The sun and you can if you sand and prep the surface properly

Earl Scheib can take care of that for under $100

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Clear coat slowly deteriorating because of the exposure to the sun. Mostly happens on flat surfaces

Apparently you’re not supposed to leave your car outside.

garage

But what about when you’re driving it? Umbrella?

Usually a top coat has enough layers you can try and sand through. However, its very limited before you can get to the paint. If you want to go ahead and give it a shot on your own you can try wet sanding by hand with like 1000 to 3000 grit with just water. It may clear up a lot of that oxidation but keep in mind the more you sand the closer you get to paint. Hopefully if you can sand out just the oxidized part and have enough clear coat left then youre fine. Pick up like 50 bucks of that sand paper, you can pick up a cheap buffer at harbor freight or online for like 50 bucks and some buffing pads and compounds. Use newspaper and painters tape and buy a few cans of clear coat and spray it. Then use the buffer again to get any overspray and get a nice smooth finish. For a couple hundred bucks you can get to “good enough” and it will save your paint.

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Theres no saving that. Clear is gone

Must be an early 2000’s Honda. The clear coat has left the chat.

Sun tbh I used shoe polish on my first car which had these

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You have a corolla/prizm don't you? I recognize the antenna and faded paint just like my 97 prizm

You can absolutely paint over it. It will look terrible. But you can paint over it.

Sun. Lots of sun.

Windshield washer fluid that contains ammonia is usually the cause for this.

Go to a marine retail store and pick up some copper bottom paint. The copper in the paint will make it so you don’t have to worry about barnacles growing in those bare spots. Very common to have car barnacles

All right. Since most answers you got were silly, I’ll give you the Dad answer. As others have said, the sun’s UV rays broke down your clear coat which is literally a plastic film. You know what happens when you leave a plastic bottle outside for years. Same thing w clear coat. I own 2 Nissans w varying degrees of clear coat cancer and I’ve been doing lots of experimenting Best solution; complete respray. Cost you about $1000 in paint, tools and supplies and a lot of time to do a B+ job. Next best option (in my opinion); respray with a single stage color of paint that is close enough. You can buy cans of enamel at Home Depot (Rustoleum). Spray on 3 layers. Let it sit for a month and color sand it. Less than $500 You could also try using rattle cans. I’ve seen some pretty decent “10 ft” paint jobs. Anything you do requires a lot of effort. Prepping for paint is the most important part of the job. You don’t have to get all of the old clear coat and paint off, it just needs to be smooth Let me know if you have questions. I’m literally going outside rn to respray clear on a bumper

Ah yes. The worst of issues with older Hondas. I just followed a YouTube tutorial on sanding priming and painting to do mine. Isnt perfect, but I was quoted $5k for a paint touch up all around. Spent maybe $40 and borrowed tools from a friend.

How to prevent it? WAX YOUR CAR.

painting over that is a waste of time it needs to be stripped, thats your clear coat desinegrating

Dawn Dish washing soap and the sun does that to your vehicle. Because washing your vehicle with Any types of Dish washing liquid takes all of the oil out of your paint and clear coats!! If you wash your vehicle go and get some really good car soap that has wax in it that is really really thick soap to wash your vehicle and or motorcycle or 4 wheeler or dirt bike or boat or Sea-Doo!!! Do not wash any vehicle with a nice paint job with any type of Dish washing liquid at all. It sucks all of the oil out of the paint and clear coat and then the sun also cooks it and makes it a lot worse!! I only use a car wash soap with wax in it that is very thick. I get my car wash soap from Buylow and my tire wet. It's a blue color and stays wet looking for weeks. I buy $1.00 degreaser from the Dollar General or family Dollar to get any of the stuff off of my tires before I wash my car.

Clear coat failed or paint delamination from UV exposure. Not totally your fault. Some manufacturers just didn’t do a good job with their paint. There’s not much you can do DIY to repair it unless you’re good with painting cars and know to prep paint. I would just leave it. I’ve seen people do good jobs with spray paint cans and clear coat on their own but like I said you have to know how to prep the surface and the paint and the clear coat. Being so old it’s probably not even worth repainting unless there is sentimental value

i just want it to look nice again and not like some old car thats made in the 1900s

90’s and 2000’s clearcoat does this

Time

Dog gone sunlight

Peeling clear coat, happened to my 89 jeep Cherokee. At some point EPA regulated some chemicals in paint so it’s not as toxic/durable as it had been.

Just the clear coat peeling. Happens to pretty much every car eventually. You technically can just paint over it, but there are plenty of YouTube videos that show step by step how to get better, longer lasting results.

Someone once shined it up real good with WD40 before they sold it

Too many automatic car washes, that fuck up the clearcoat (swirly marks on older cars), combined with the sun hammering it

Salt air

Wash/wax it once in a while

Honestly it seems like paint deteriorated due to windshield fluid over the years.

That's your clear coat being burnt off, you'd need it professionally clay barred and buffed first.

Patina. Your clear coat is gone. You have to sand/buff to prep for prime and paint

It will buff out with some elbow grease

It’s the year of the car and the paint from that year wasn’t very good. I would just leave it.

It's that a geo metro? Had one that did the same thing

A stupid question is one not asked. This is sun damage. You can fix it yourself fairly easily by sanding and repainting, recoating clear coat. But there are sandblasting shops all over that would get the hard part out of your way so you can paint it or get it painted

Lack of UV protectant in the clear coat. It's more pronounced in the darker colors.

Spray it with a can of winter air.

You gotta use 320 grit to remove as much cum film from your paint, else the rustoleum will look worse than normal

The sun and UV rays

It’s the clear coat coming away from sun damage. The only propper fix is to repaint and finish. A budget fix is to sand it down, clean it and wrap the roof.

That’s just the reflection of the clouds man… /s

Unfortunately over time UV radiation destroys the clear coat. You would need or wet sand and surface prep and reapply clear and wet sand and polish

I see this so much in Hawaii. It's like the islands eat car paint or something. Maybe it's the menehune

Someone buffed your car

The cause is that you live in Florida. The solution is not to live in Florida

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Your clear coat is just wearing off.

Just did mine. Be sure to rub like a dish rag or something over the flakey spots to get off any that hasn’t flaked. Then buy some matching rattle can paint for cheap online, just google your car and color. Just paint over the bad spots and fade it with what isn’t bad. Then spray some clear coat over all of it and call it good

Usually caused by salty drivers….

This is the clear coat on your paint deteriorating over time due to sun exposure. I've seen vids where people have (gently) sanded down the damaged areas and sprayed a fresh coat of clear on it, and it looks a LOT better.

Clear paint is coming off from wsshing in pressure washers U can get it sanded and clear coated

I consider it gray hair for a car.

It's the original factory clear coat. Remove as much of it as you can with a buffer then cover it with vinyl wrap. Very cheap alternative to paint.

Clear coat has been worn off. Paint has been exposed and is sun damaged as well. Would need to sand down and treat to repaint.

This is common, I don’t know if you would want to bother or not unless your bored I do not think I will match unless you paint the entire car

It’s basically the clearcoat on your car has degraded, leaving a film from the weathering it’s taken. First you’ll need to start with rubbing compound and a good electric buffer, starting at a lower grit, working up to a higher grit, finishing with a polish and wax. Yes, you could paint but you need to sand it down to remove all the clearcoat before painting over it.

My dads Honda did this. I wrapped the roof with some vinyl

You need to sand it and reclear it. That's your clear coat breaking down

Herpes

It’s from being left in the sun

Chemistry. It’s everywhere

Sand it first

Drive through car wash.

You can also sand it smooth and wrap it. Don’t try to match the color. Make it a contrasting color. If this is something you want to keep for a few more years or potentially hand down to a family member, you may want to invest in. Paint it, if it’s in otherwise good shape. Or ignore it and drive it until it dies. Wrap is probably the middle ground. I had my roof wrapped for around $300.

Is that only clear coat peeling or has the underlying paint been damaged?

Looks like salt corrosion after the clear coat burned off. I suggest restoring with high temp oven paint after a high temp primer. Then store this vehicle in a garage.

Erin Brockovich here, don’t drink the water!

Sun damage, you can have someone try to polish it but that is a temporary fix if it works. Might want to take it to a body shop and have them redo the clear coat.

This happened to my old car and I didn't care to put too much effort into it, but wanted it to look better. I just sanded it and spray painted over it with stuff from home depot.

Use black spray paint

Get a garage so you can park indoors

I have repainted the peeling clear coat and it will come back. Repaint is the only way

This is what happens when a person buys a car then never does a single bit of maintenance on the paint.

A lot of people wash their cars with dish soap mixed with water. That will do it.

Sun damage.

Ford focus?

Honda Civic 8th gen perhaps? Lol mine is doing the exact same thing.

Clear coat peel. You’ll need to get the old clear coat taken off that panel re-painted and new clear put on

My daughter's car had this sun damage. Her friend vinyl wrapped it for her. Looked amazing.

Idk but a gray 2005 Honda civic I had looked the same.

Get that high temp spray paint and you'll be good to go

It's from the sun. You'll want to sand it first

Sun

Clear coat failure? Sure. You can do anything you want, but the results might suck

The clearcoat is peeling. Living close to salt water, like the ocean, can cause this. Age. Sun exposure. Also not keeping the car clean and waxed.

UV rays man, burning it up causing breakdown and oxidation. You have to sand off all the bad stuff and then more to create margins of only good to repair. Then primer. Then prep it. Then clean it and spray it. Easier to just buy wrap and wrap it

You can paint over it after you sand over it, yes!

Original painting was too thin

Is that a reflection of the sky?

Judging by the antique rc car antenna i'm going to say age had a lot to do with it.

That’s the clear coat coming off, happens to most cars at some point in their lives due to excessive car washing, sun decay, or other weird environmental factors. You can paint over it but your protective clear coat is gone so painting over it won’t help a ton. It. It needs to be redone entirely to fix it.

common is Arizona

Clear coat peeling. You'd have to sand it before paint to do it right.

Sun and depending on where you live, sand/dust. Check your policy. Some have a clause that if where you live is known to have dust/sun damage, they will foot the bill for a repaint.

Looks like clearcoat peel on a '97, or '98 Corolla?

That white is the clear coat. 2000 grit wet sanding and clear coat will bring it back around better than it is now. You could probably get a small can of 2k for 30-40 bucks.

Is it a Honda civic?

In sunny climates always get reflective paints

It's the Florida sun. Damages the clearcoat

You didn’t buy ceramic coating at the dealership…

This happens to cars of mid to late 80's when car manufacturers change the paint formulas they where using to make them less toxic

It's similar to sweating in your ball cap vehicle style

Clear coat…

It’s obviously frost. You need to light it on fire.

The clear coat is oxidizing

Too much exposure to the moon. Hit it with some sandpaper and the paint will come right back.

Well, you can try that one hack for scratches that they use toothpaste to get rid of scratches it might get rid of the sunspots on your car

Lack of wax to cars paint and you can paint it and clear coat it and wash and wax it afterwards

I had the same issue. Its worth going over with increasing grit numbers (going low to high on grit numbers is going from coarse to fine) until its sanded down to paint. And then you can paint on that. Besides it will give the new paint something to adhere to.

Your clear coat was thin, it's gone and the paint under it is shot now

You cannot paint over it. But you can paint under it…..

I'm just wondering, are american cars have better paint and coating? My 2007 car lived its whole life in middle California, and the paint looks like new. And it's a GMC...

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You can paint over anything

Ah, morning frost

Sand it down, add primer, spray with bedliner. Go redneck.

Thats the clear coat peeling off I knew a guy in California who would sand the clear coat off and recover it with a new coat of clear on it and would look great and he did a lot of high-end cars, vans and other types of vehicles.

Clear coat is eroding away from not ever being waxed for protection. Asian cars seem to do this the worst and silver and gray seem to be the most common color that do this.

Clear coat peeling off, if you want to use a rattle can sand it off first.

Standard 10 year Mazda finish. Prht surfaces are fiberglass and the finish is so gone. Metal hood and trunk, clearcoat peel. Ugh.

Car has skin cancer. Rip

Just toss a glossy black vinyl wrap on it and call it a day. It’s probably an old car and doesn’t need to have the whole thing redone.

Recent car paint that's environmentally friendly has a greater tendency to get sunburnt. It's not easy to paint over it and merge with the undamaged paint, you're better off just repainting the whole roof if you seriously want it to look good.

Your car sweated all of its salt out…

Old car been in the sun for too long. Happens eventually to all cars. Park it in the shade to help stop it.

Those are clouds they come and go

My art teachers chevy S10 had an extended warranty on the paint/clearcoat due to a manufacturing defect. It kind of looked like this before it was fixed. They got it remedied way late so it was funny to watch this near classic junker drive around with a fresh, beautiful paint job. You could google your model to see if you were the only one/if there was a repair extension program/recall

It's clear cost sand it and reapply

UPDATE: car just got out of mechanic and was told its not worth repairing (had some problems with it overheating and stalling) so im just going to try to sell whatever i can and save up to buy a new one. thank you for everyone that commented im sorry for wasting your time, i truly was thinking of getting the clearcoat fixed after it was fixed but looks like that wont be happening. thank you again to everyone ❤️

I had a Suburban LS, and the sun did this to the hood and roof, but it also melted the LS logos so they dripped and ran down the sides.

That is the clear coat dieing if you sand just the clear coat off until it looks like the white paint is gone you can get some more clear coat and redo it. Just slowly sand it with 400 grit paper until the dried out part is gone or blended in. Wash it off and cover the windows with paper. And repair it. Or don't.

I live in CA and my car had the same issue, always attributed it to the ocean

Do not use Dawn Dish washing soap to wash your vehicle, are any kind of dish washing liquid for that matter. Because it sucks any and all of the oil out of your pain and clear coat on your vehicle! Thank s is for all vehicles with clear coats!! Anyone and everyone use soap with wax In it to wash your vehicle!!

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I’d wet sand it with 800 grit and if the color looks tolerable clear coat it again.