Prevent paint from peeling?

[Cheech]

Hello. I own a 2000 Honda Accord LX and recently I noticed some paint was peeling on the passenger side door. It's not much but I was wondering if there's anything I can do to prevent it from peeling even more?

 

[ponchonutty]

No, if it's peeling, it's failing. Most likely from a shotty repaint.

 

[eastwardbound2003]

Why is it so easy for the collision repairers to botch up the paint work? One would think that by year 2006 a crashed car can already by repaired exactly to the origional spec. But I would suppose that would be asking too much.

East-

 

[Art]

Unfortunately the compromise may be the paint itself. EPA has forced manufacturers to remove many pollutants to it making it a compromised product.

 

[TeGGeR®]

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Why is it so easy for the collision repairers to botch up the paint work? One would think that by year 2006 a crashed car can already by repaired exactly to the origional spec. But I would suppose that would be asking too much.

Because it was a crappy body shop that did the work. It's like anything else: You get what you pay for.

 

[SoCalMike]

Why is it so easy for the collision repairers to botch up the paint work? One would think that by year 2006 a crashed car can already by repaired exactly to the origional spec. But I would suppose that would be asking too much.

especially on plastic bumpers! the ONLY reason that stuff fails is that the proper plastic primer isnt used. the stuff i had was a clear/pinkish liquid made by PPG. it was about $10-$15 for a relatively large can, and goes right on over whatevers there, let it partially dry, respray the paint within 24hrs.

it could probably be applied with a rag, if need be. just enough to get the bumper "wet".

 

[SoCalMike]

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Because it was a crappy body shop that did the work. It's like anything else: You get what you pay for.

i dunno. you CAN get a decent job out of 1-day or even earl schieb, if you do all the prep yourself. that means:

take off all molding, trim, marker lights, door handles, etc pre-mask the areas do all bondoing/dent removal/rust patching pre-prime and sand the areas you do work on

so basically all theyll do is mask the glass, etc, spray with primer, then sand and spray with a color coat.

 

[TeGGeR®]

i dunno. you CAN get a decent job out of 1-day or even earl schieb, if you do all the prep yourself. that means:

take off all molding, trim, marker lights, door handles, etc pre-mask the areas do all bondoing/dent removal/rust patching pre-prime and sand the areas you do work on

so basically all theyll do is mask the glass, etc, spray with primer, then sand and spray with a color coat.

The problem for the OP is probably between the base coat and the clear coat. You have nothing to do with that even if you do everything you say above.

If they use crap paint or do it wrong, the clear coat will eventually peel off the base coat.

Actually, even if the problem is between primer and a non-clear coat paint, you STILL have nothing to do with it, and it's STILL up to the shop to use good materials and do the job right.

The OP's the victim of a shitty paint job. End of story.