Bigsyke

I have a 2005 DB Z that's shedding its paint. The entire front end is becoming white from paint chips, and now the sides and top of the car have about a million+ chips down to the metal from being left outside in a flash hail storm by accident.

I knew it was a problem when looking at my fenders. Strange swirly scrapes down to the metal from small sand grits or pebbles.

Car is never used on dirt roads or in the rain/snow. Garaged 99% of the time, rarely driven.

Some of the chips and scratches are starting to rust. This is extremely concerning. My 92 TT winter beater doesn't have any paint chips and it's been highly abused.

For protection, I've been using the following:

Duragloss 601, followed by DG 105. Topped with DG AquaWax. (Known as one of the best protection combos on the market).

I generally clay once a year in the spring.

On a fresh duragloss'ed surface, I very-lightly used my fingernail and felt an area by the door. Sure enough the paint scratched all the way down to the primer. Nothing was able to buff this out.

Seriously Nissan? I'm honestly thinking they forgot the Clear Coat on my car, which actually is the only logical explanation.

Anyone else with this issue?


Pics of damage:





Dust Chips





Fender chipping





Hood Chips





Ran finger along paint, chipped





Z32 paint, 200k miles for reference. wtf?

turboed350z

"Forgot to clear coat my car" can clearly see that the car has clear coat....

Highway Riding

iTrader: (6)

IMHO OEM Nissan paint sucks! Bottom Line. Just happens with some brands.

PP08HR

iTrader: (2)

No reason to not be nice... I thought you were working at that.

turboed350z

You complain too much. Grow up. Ive seen pregnant pitbulls that arent as big of a b**** as you.