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I've been checking out a few GQs to buy, and I've noticed a few have crazed paint/crows feet on the bonnet and tops of the guards

Two I've looked at still have original paint (no respray at all)... but crazed paint... is this a common thing with them? (all have been 1989 - 1991)

My GQ is a 91 model...dark blue..and it has always been a western truck...and there is no trace of crows feet or fading....so I dunno why that is squik....but if the truck checks out ok otherwise with no cancer....go for it ....as paint can be fixed easy....unlike cancer


Cheers Keith

Thanks for that. Just concerned that it's been in an accident... does crazing and fading 'just happen' with older trucks?

Minis are notorious for it, regardless of whether there is a respray/repair under it or not. So I suppose my query is 'can crows feet/crazing happen when no repair/respray has happen'??

Could it have been hail damaged in the past? Most of the fixup re-sprays I have seen in the past leave a lot to be desired after a few years.

cheers

mines an 89 and white so its harder to see but its started to craze and has blemishes coming though on the bonnet paint and mine has never been in an accy as im second owner and the first owner was a close family friend so id say its the paint getting crappy same year (vn) bomadores are notorius for it mine

prob find it is worse on bonnet cos of under bonnet temps.

prob find it is worse on bonnet cos of under bonnet temps.

be careful, i spend alot of time playing with old rwd corollas (dont judge me, its a really quick car in the build) and ive used panels from a few different cars 82-84 models, and they usually look a factory colour and factory spray job, til u sand them back and find its been resprayed over the colour coat, and thats why they usually craze/crack, acrylic respray over factory 2pak.

when factory paint dies it tends to just go powdery and turn ur buffing pad the colour of the paint, im sure u know what i mean.

this is just my experience, and its hard to know til you get the sander out, but at the end of the day, it may be worth going a newer model with no paint issues, or budgeting the possibly of respraying it with an older model.

Im a painter by trade so hopefully i should know.

Okay, i did my apprenticeship at a contracted business to none other then Ford. Even working at a new car dealership you would be surprised at the amount of repairs we did after the factory inital respray. Especially metallics as the robots still cant master it like a human can.

There would be extremely few cars on the road with original paint to clear that question up.

Crazing, delamination, crows feet, sink back, solvent boil etc etc etc all comes from the same principal, and that's different solvents or different brands of solvents not getting along and making a chemical reaction. So you get a few coats of paint and primer on a panel, the solvents have to evaporate somewhere, sometime.

Especially if you have a mix of acrylic, 2pack and enamel on the same panel!

If its crazing, you will have to chemically or mechanically strip it back to bare metal and start again. With old cars, they will have old repairs (bog) to be sure, to be sure. So that means re repairing and it becomes a quite lengthy and costly process.

If you buy, budget for a proper repaint mate.

thats exactly the point i was making tommy, well put

funny thing is, the best paint job ive had on a car, after sanding it back i found it had 11 layers of paints, including 2 seperate layers of highbuild, needless to say, it looked good til you got it back to metal no crazing anything, and the paintwork was 10 years old

My bonnet is starting to go but the rest is fine (apart from the dints and scratches ) and it's a 90 model Maverick.