well..long story short I have a hood thats been repainted twice already and the paint keeps bubbling around the duct in the front. The paint shop said its the cars fault for getting to hot and I find that highly unlikely. So what could be causing it to bubble? I plan on bringing it somewhere else to get painted but don't want to have the same problem.
i work at a paint shop and to me that sounds like a couple of things, thats deff lack of prep work, shitty primer ,lack of primer or cheap primer and paint might not have enough paint on it
i work at a paint shop and to me that sounds like a couple of things, thats deff lack of prep work, shitty primer ,lack of primer or cheap primer and paint might not have enough paint on it
^^ exactly...i would lean more towards lack of prep work/shitty primer
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The hood doesn't even get hot there, warm yes, hot no. I'd sue them in small claims court for a lemon job..fuck that.
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work at a paint shop and to me that sounds like a couple of things, thats deff lack of prep work, shitty primer ,lack of primer or cheap primer and paint might not have enough paint on it
Yeah I figured they just had no idea what the hell they were doing. I only payed for it once but I'm going to see if those assholes will reinburse me the differance. I have a feeling they are going to give me a hard time though.
I had the EXACT same problem with my hood. It got painted 4 times before they could figure out why it kept bubbling around the scoop. It got to the point where I had reps from BASF come out and take samples of the paint to see what the problem was. They ended up stripping everything off the hood down to the E-coat then re-sprayed it and I haven't had a problem since. If I remember correctly, the problem was that it takes a heavy base coat (at least on OB) and since it wasn't adhering to the primer it wasn't completely dry before they sprayed the other coats of base/clear. Thus causing the paint to bubble up after being subject to heat. You also have to leave the plastic inset out for a few weeks to make sure it cures properly.
You have to go back to the same place though. Don't accept a half-ass job on their part. Make sure they strip the hood though, if not they're gonna keeping painting over paint which is going to cause the exact same problem.
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Had this same problem with my bumper. Had it painted 6 month ago due to an accident. Over the winter it started to bubble & chip.
I took it back to the shop & found out that they didn't strip the whole bumper back down before they painted it. Then they found out it had 3 coats of paint on it (1 from them & 2 coats from the factory). All those layers didn't help (the last 2 pics are the underside of the bumper- you can see the original paint still underneath).
This time I had them take it all the way down & do it right.
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