Re: Audi Paint, Clearcoat, Wax...

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Hi Alexander;

    Once the clearcoat has failed to this extent, it can't be salvaged.
You'll have to sand the car down to the basecoat (make sure all the
clearcoat is off or the repaint will fail) and reapply both basecoat and
clearcoat.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  281k km

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander van Gerbig <Audi_80@email.msn.com>
To: Quattro List <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:51 PM
Subject: Audi Paint, Clearcoat, Wax...


>     Over the past two days I compunded the whole car, then tossed a good
> coat of wax on.  On Friday I will double up that coat for good measure.
> After all the elbow grease I tossed in it the car looks good, although the
> scratches are visible when up and close.  There are some little spots of
> missing cleacoat which became apparent after the compounding, acutally I
> probably took some of it polishing.  The clear coat is what is dying, not
> the paint.  SO maybe there is a way to reapir cleacoat back to new?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alexander van Gerbig
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