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A couple of weeks ago, the clear coat started flaking off the paint on my front hood. There are a ton of sites that give suggestions on how to deal with this but I wanted to see if anybody here had ever had to deal with it.
Anybody got a solution to stopping it and fixing the small spot that no longer has clear coat on it?
__________________ Mike
Member #4,587
1999 F350 XLT crewcab 3 inch body lift, 8 inch suspension lift. Edge Evolution programmer. AFE cold air intake. 37 inch tires. Pics are in link below.
1996 F350 XLT crewcabdually, (RIP) pulled a 50+3' step deck trailer and 30' cow trailer.
Pictures of it's death can be seen in link below.
There are ways to temporarily fix this...but none that look really nice.
Ford trucks had several colors with adhesion issues in 1999 and the best fix for it is to sand it and reclear the whole hood. If it's flaking off there is probably some type of contaminant in the metal, primer, or basecoat and it's just going to keep flaking off.
A lot of these contaminant issues were specific to certain production plants and mostly occurred on the hood.
__________________ 2002 F350 Lariat LE Dually 4x4 Crew Cab 7.3L, 4.10 gears, GTP38-R, Stage 1's, Custom Tunes, MBRP exhaust w/ stacks, 11 ISSPRO gauges, F-650 lower dash, Oil / Coolant / Tranny bypass filters, S&B Intake, Marinco Mod, Custom hydroboost remote filter / reservoir system, HPX, FRX, Bilsteins and Mag-hytec Rear / Front Diff Covers, 6.0L trans cooler / power steering cooler, Pioneer touchscreen with Alpine speakers all the way around.
2000 Chevy SuburbanZ71, 3.73 gears, 6 " BDS lift, 35 inch Bfg's. 6BT Cummins diesel, Garvin Safari Rack, Warn winch, 4L80E tranny (soon to be ZF5), Still on torsion bars from an HD pickup. Pro Comp wheels and Fox racing shocks.....
2003 GMC Yukon XL, 5.3L H.O. Vortec, Eibach Suspension, black on black with black wheels, 3.73 gears, AFE intake, Granetelli MAS and coils, blue bottle in the back somewhere...
Red, thanks for the response. I missed it till now. I actually have more peeling on the top of the cab but, because the truck is lifted so high, nobody can see it and I'm mainly concerned with the hood. If I was to sand and recoat it, do you know of any specific product to use?
__________________ Mike
Member #4,587
1999 F350 XLT crewcab 3 inch body lift, 8 inch suspension lift. Edge Evolution programmer. AFE cold air intake. 37 inch tires. Pics are in link below.
1996 F350 XLT crewcabdually, (RIP) pulled a 50+3' step deck trailer and 30' cow trailer.
Pictures of it's death can be seen in link below.
Honestly, the only way to get rid of it in it's entirety is to sand the hood completely and start from scratch.
The last one of these I did, I took the hood to bare metal, cleaned it, and primed, painted and clear coated.. It's the only way to really solve it.
I tried looking at the link to your pics but it's not working.
Depending on the color, I suppose a body shop could fix that spot and do a blend in to the rest of the hood...but you may keep having clear peel off elsewhere.
I'd do it once and be done with it.
__________________ 2002 F350 Lariat LE Dually 4x4 Crew Cab 7.3L, 4.10 gears, GTP38-R, Stage 1's, Custom Tunes, MBRP exhaust w/ stacks, 11 ISSPRO gauges, F-650 lower dash, Oil / Coolant / Tranny bypass filters, S&B Intake, Marinco Mod, Custom hydroboost remote filter / reservoir system, HPX, FRX, Bilsteins and Mag-hytec Rear / Front Diff Covers, 6.0L trans cooler / power steering cooler, Pioneer touchscreen with Alpine speakers all the way around.
2000 Chevy SuburbanZ71, 3.73 gears, 6 " BDS lift, 35 inch Bfg's. 6BT Cummins diesel, Garvin Safari Rack, Warn winch, 4L80E tranny (soon to be ZF5), Still on torsion bars from an HD pickup. Pro Comp wheels and Fox racing shocks.....
2003 GMC Yukon XL, 5.3L H.O. Vortec, Eibach Suspension, black on black with black wheels, 3.73 gears, AFE intake, Granetelli MAS and coils, blue bottle in the back somewhere...
I hear ya and if everything else on the truck was good, I'd go for it but the goober I bought the truck from had apparently loaded the truck with sand or dirt and while the damage is hard to see, all four sides of the bed are damaged (as well as the bottom) and and at some point, I'm going to replace the bed and figure I'll go for a full paint job when that happens, so I don't want to bother with just repainting the hood, right now. I'm just trying to stop it from getting any worse, in the meantime.
__________________ Mike
Member #4,587
1999 F350 XLT crewcab 3 inch body lift, 8 inch suspension lift. Edge Evolution programmer. AFE cold air intake. 37 inch tires. Pics are in link below.
1996 F350 XLT crewcabdually, (RIP) pulled a 50+3' step deck trailer and 30' cow trailer.
Pictures of it's death can be seen in link below.
I have a 01 that was bought nin Sept 2000 that has the top on hood, cab, and top of rear fenders. It stays outside and has been waxed often. Just chichen chit paint in my opinion.
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