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After a lot of searching and literally finding nothing, I am now going to ask and hope someone has a clue. I know it's very common with the Bonneville to have their clear coat be pretty much "burnt" through. The clear coat is very spotty on my car, and there are several spots on the car like the hood, trunk, and quarter panels, in which the clear coat is for use of a better word just gone. Is there any way that I can fix this horrible looking paint? Like a detail...or I've heard that some people scrape off the clear coat and just leave the base paint? Basically what I'm asking is, is there any way to fix this? My car is a 2000 Bonneville SSEI with 180k

I've never really seen any 2000+ Bonneville with clear coat failure, if that is the case though I wouldn't recommend "scraping" off the remaining clear and just leaving the base coat, that would look absolutely terrible.

Any chance you can grab a couple pics of the areas you are talking about?

Sand,
Prime,
Repaint.

Short and sweet, but this will give you the best, long lasting results.

And NO, you can't just re-clear it either, it doesn't work that way.

Leon

Leon nailed it.

taking off all the clear that is left and leaving the basecoat, won't help. The base color coat doesn't have hardeners in them that help resist mother natures forces. And leaving it like that not only looks like crap in general, will look REALLY like crap in a year!! Flat, dull, and probably showing rust or other rot.

The only way is to have it completely sanded (wet sanding), back down to that base, fixing any damage to the base (which would involve priming and new color), and then being re-cleared. The clear coat isn't there to just make it look shiny. It's the hard, protective coat that helps seal out everything.