hey car detailers or paint people

[squirrel 0]

I have an 89 jeep, red. The paint constantly fades. I can get the color back by using Color Back, but what is the best, or most effective wax that I can apply to stop the oxidation?

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[quade 4]

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I have an 89 jeep, red. The paint constantly fades. I can get the color back by using Color Back, but what is the best, or most effective wax that I can apply to stop the oxidation?

It's possible that the paint has actually gone beyond what can be fixed, but you'd be surprised at what can be done with the proper application of products.

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[Cornholio 0]

There's no hope, my friend.

The 1989-92 Jeeps had horrible paint jobs. Almost every one of them start the way you say, then get worse. I had a 1990 Jeep. Here's a couple pics - before in 2000, and when I sold it in 2005.

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[tdog 0]

My 93 dodge did the same thing. Jeep and Dodge = Chrysler.

[Cornholio 0]

Not sure if you can tell from the "after" pic, but that little spot in the first pic spread like a fungus to the entire hood, and eventually the entire roof.

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[squirrel 0]

the paint is actually not showing any effects like that, simply looses its shine. there is no evidence of "breakdown" so to speak. more rather, simple fading, which the color can be brought back by rubbing it out. but its a process that i seem to have to redo about twice a year.

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[Cornholio 0]

Well, Good Luck with that! I babied mine for a while with a few wax jobs per year, but I soon realized that this was a problem I couldn't stop except for getting a new paint job. It's possible the previous owner didn't wax it enough and it created a bigger problem.

But those paint jobs on those cars were shitty to begin with anyway. Even without Wax, the paint shouldn't start to peel off the car within 10 years.

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[kai2k1 0]

Use mothers Sealer wax, then finish off with a topcoat of mothers synwax, also detail it with a clay bar kit, it will pull out all kinds of crap from your finish .

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[VectorBoy 0]

The eighties jeeps used an acrylic laquer, sadly the only thing worse as far as paint was cheesey water based stuff ford experimented with during the same time.

Your laquer will wipe off with some acetone on a rag. As a Jeep guy I can offer three routes.

1 Have it professionally repainted in epoxy or urethanes.

2 Its a jeep not a beemer you should have rough paint, scratches and bashes and oil leaks, its a jeep thing. Even when I repainted my jeep in urethane I left in some of the old battle dings as character marks.

3 you can buff out your paint very easy but it will not hold the sheen long and you can cut too much too easily.

[squirrel 0]

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The eighties jeeps used an acrylic laquer, sadly the only thing worse as far as paint was cheesey water based stuff ford experimented with during the same time.

Your laquer will wipe off with some acetone on a rag. As a Jeep guy I can offer three routes.

1 Have it professionally repainted in epoxy or urethanes.

2 Its a jeep not a beemer you should have rough paint, scratches and bashes and oil leaks, its a jeep thing. Even when I repainted my jeep in urethane I left in some of the old battle dings as character marks.

3 you can buff out your paint very easy but it will not hold the sheen long and you can cut too much too easily.

oh, i totally hear ya, its a wrangler, and i use it for work, i am a general contractor. i use a custom trailer to haul my tools and gear, and the jeep usually gets sprayed with stucco, paint, concrete, mud, and other crap. hell i use it to drag a chain link fence section around my land to knock down the weeds. still dont understand how my subs drive these 40K rigs that essentially they throw bricks at all day. anyway, every once in awhile i clean it up, and was wondering what i could do to procect the paint, which protects the metal. maybe i will just go spray the entire thing with some bed liner spray! thanks for all the advice, cheers!

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