Clear coat coming off my beautiful '97 Sierra

[OBE]

It doesn't look like the profile photo anymore; it looks like a junker now with strips of clear coat peeling off.
What's the solution...anyone?

 

[Will L.]

Wet sand and clear coat. Takes about 4 years to happen out here in the dry desert, so most folks just turn a blind eye to it.

 

[OBE]

Poor baby!!! Thanx for the reply. I haven't had anyone look at it to give me a price. Would you say that process would be less than a new paint job?
Say what they will about NJ but guess what, we have some of the best laws in the US and there are no extremes of weather. I saw something about a guy who was traveling thru Oregon and he made a video complaining that he wasn't allowed to pump his own gas. He said, "This stupid state and ONE OTHER in the whole entire country don't allow you to pump your own gas." Yeah...that other state is New Jersey. Jon Corzine, Goldman Sachs Exec who got elected governor in 2006, tried to change it as the first thing he did after taking office, and the voters almost IMPEACHED him. Whodahell wants to pump their owm gas?

 

[Stoney]

Actually I prefer to pump my own. Local full service place thought it was a good idea to put GAS in my truck.. even though I have big bold stickers that say DIESEL ONLY. That's actually how I joined this forum , was looking for advice how to fix it. Granted they wrote me a big check but wasn't worth having my truck down for weeks.

 

[MrMarty51]

I have wondered about just sanding and clear coating.
Does a person remove all the old clear coat or just feather out the loose stuff ?

 

[Will L.]

You could do it like a crashed car- just take off the hood or fender worth. Problems are getting it to match is hard, and how long before the next part starts letting go.
My paint skills are horrible btw, i just worked around real painters and watched them do magic. My hummer suffers abiut the worst paint/ clear coat one could imagine on a non rusty rig.

 

[OBE]

It is just on the hood, roof of cab, and roof of cap.

 

[Husker6.5]

The maximum UV exposure areas. @Will L. is right. You can just try to treat the affected areas and hope like hell the new clear coat can be blended in to look the same as the weathered areas - and then have to deal with those old areas that then begin peeling loose in a few years, too. Or you can remove the clear coat down to the base coat and just reshoot the whole thing in a couple of new layers of clear and be done with it.

Then there's the option of just leave it be, they almost all do that, so who cares? And save yourself some money.

 

[Husker6.5]

BTW. Be glad it isn't white. Then the paint itself would be peeling off down to the primer all over those areas.

 

[Rocky059]

It is just on the hood, roof of cab, and roof of cap.

I have the same problem on my 04 think i cleaned n polished it off lol.