paint repair help

[triple_green]

Sorry..not a mopar.

1996 Ford Mustang with peeling exterior paint in 4 places around the car, the largest 4 inch diameter. The color coat appears to be peeling away from the grey undercoat. I assume it's the factory paint. I'd like to avoid painting the whole car. I'm wondering if a can sand locally, touch up via airbrush or other, and rub out to blend. Can you lend some advice regarding procedure/technique, as well as equipment and paint supply resources?

[MichaelRW]

If it's factory paint it will peel elsewhere in the future. Better to paint the whole car. Color match might be difficult since the car is 12 years old if you just did a spot job.

[Silver R/T]

I'm not aware of Mustangs that year having bad paint jobs. I do see a lot of early GM trucks with such problem though. Sounds like you will have to redo whole car, at this point color matching wont be so hard as you will be repainting pretty much whole car. I would take it to the bare metal or you could just sand it down to primer but you will be taking a risk of color coat coming off again since there's possibility of bad primer on there. Although there's many variables that could've been done wrong thats why the paint is peeling.

[craigandlynda]

sorry, don't think there's a shortcut here...if its peeling and exposing primer, there is a cause....all the paint will shed like hair from a hound, sooner than later. Get a GOOD local paint shop to look closely at the primer and paint peelings...they might see why it happened...you will probably need to remove it all, and start with quality materials and workmanship....


have you thought about panther pink?