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My understanding of how clear coat works, is it needs to bond to not fully cured out color coat. Meaning, for clear coat to stick, it needs sprayed on recently, not yet dried, paint.

or it will flake off like a bad sunburn.

 

 

Okso then i have to restore the paint on the roof. Luckily it is just the roof

 

nipper

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I would just wet sand it, buff it out, and call it a day. Otherwise to make a lasting repair with new paint you would have to take it down to bare metal and start over - anything short of that is only going to last a couple years at most so in my mind the most effective way around it is to work with what's already on there. And if that means sanding the clear back to where it's still good then so be it. With a good wet-sand job, polishing compound, and then a wax job - it will look just fine.

 

I haven't seen many Subaru's with clear-coat. I'm betting it was a dealer option because most of them just have a single stage paint with no clear from what I've seen.

 

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I haven't seen many Subaru's with clear-coat. I'm betting it was a dealer option because most of them just have a single stage paint with no clear from what I've seen.

 

GD

 

that's odd, maybe they added it later, the 88 does not appear to have it, but the 90 does...

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