oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

[deadxpatriots]

i recently bought my 94 honda civic, and everything is in great condition except for the paint. The paint on the hood and the roof of the car are oxidated or faded. i tried applying meguiars scratch x to the roof of the car but the surface is too rough and the liquid just stays on without coming off. right here in the pictures you can see a part of the roof where one part is white, thats where i applied the meguiars scratch x on it, it was difficult for me to take it off. NOTHING HAPPENED, I DID NOT SEE A DIFFERENCE, can sumone please help me out??? CAN THIS PROBLEM BE FIXED OR AM I GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND HUNDREDS OF BUCKS ON A NEW PAINT JOB? PLEASE HELP SUMONE

[DaGonz]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

That paintwork is beyond hope. A repaint is needed.

[sneek]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

yes that generation of civic seems to have a bad clear coat.
heres a pic of one i worked on, it is not as bad as yours but is getting there. The only "cheap" way you can fix it is by sanding and painting the car youself with some duplicolor paints.


the pic is pretty bad because i am terrable at taking pictures

heres the whole thread if your interested

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14512

[deadxpatriots]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

wow, great job on the repaint of the car. so if i want mine looking like that i'm going to have to get a new paint job? THAT ***** i really dont have money for a new paint job. Either way it looks im going to have to get it. I was hoping they sold products to get the oxidation off the paint of the car.

[93ZF6]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

As stated above that looks to need re painting. There are many Megs products capable of removing oxidation from CC or paint, the point is there needs to be adequate film below that which is removed or you cannot repair the finish. A DIY fix can come out OK just take your time and look around here for tips on keeping up the repair.

[deadxpatriots]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

yeah thanks alot for the tips. if you guys know anyways i can make my car look nice without spending much money please let me know, thanks alot.

[Michael Stoops]

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I was hoping they sold products to get the oxidation off the paint of the car.

Such products do exist, but as sneek pointed out what you have here is not oxidation but clear coat failure. Oxidation, primarily on single stage paint, can be corrected with aggressive buffing to remove the "dead" paint. Clear coat failure is literally a peeling off of the clear coat that sits atop the color coat. Once this starts to fail the only way to fix it is a repaint - either touching up the impacted area or repainting the entire vehicle.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

i recently bought my 94 honda civic, and everything is in great condition except for the paint. The paint on the hood and the roof of the car are oxidated or faded. i tried applying meguiars scratch x to the roof of the car but the surface is too rough and the liquid just stays on without coming off. right here in the pictures you can see a part of the roof where one part is white, thats where i applied the meguiars scratch x on it, it was difficult for me to take it off. NOTHING HAPPENED, I DID NOT SEE A DIFFERENCE, can sumone please help me out??? CAN THIS PROBLEM BE FIXED OR AM I GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND HUNDREDS OF BUCKS ON A NEW PAINT JOB? PLEASE HELP SUMONE

More red x's thanks to Photobucket.

Why PhotoBucket is a waste of time...

[sneek]

Re: oxidated paint help, can sumone help me?

??? The photo shows up for me

[Mike Phillips]

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Are you using Firefox or IE?

There are 4 photos in the first post,

In IE one phoe shows up with 3 red x's
In Firefox one photos shous up and no red x's

When we look at the code, the image urls are present, we've copied and pasted them below.

[Graeme]

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??? The photo shows up for me

Same here

[Mike Phillips]

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Here's the code minus the http so it won't automatically create a link,



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[Mike Phillips]

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Same here

How many pictures do you see in the first message?

[Mike Phillips]

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We copied and pasted the URL address for some of the missing photos into our browser and it took us to a Missing Page link at PhotoBucket.





If you look to the left side of the screen shot you'll see the red x's we're seeing on two different computers side by side using IE

Firefox doesn't show the missing pictures or the red x's but the code is there and the pictures are missing.

This is the reason for the article on PhotoBucket in the Hot Topics forum. The pictures get deleted by the owner of the account to make room for new pictures and forums around the world get red x's.

[Murr1525]

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I only get one, using IE7 on this comp and IE6 on another comp.