BTW - I have pretty much finished with my van hood for now. I was never able to get an exact color match, but hey its an old knock-about van so...

I decided to try my hand at another car and color while I am waiting for the van hood to cure enough to polish. This one had a severe case of clear coat peel on the trunk lid. I dreaded having to sand all that clear coat off, so the thought struck me to use a 98 cent plastic scraper from Home Depot to get off as much as I could. In 20 minutes I stripped half the trunk lid that way. In places you have to sort of bend the scraper a bit to give it enough bite, but that clear coat has almost no bond to the base coat at all. Here are a few before and after pictures (half way done). Notice the large flakes of clear coat on the scraper.

With a new coat of Rustoleum that old base coat should be fine. I am hoping for a better color match here. I am also wondering if maybe I should just do a bit of wetsanding with 600 and put on a new clear coat.





Have fun.