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This is the same thing that I experienced this spring. It looked more like a general watermark over the surface. So I just whipped out the Porter & Cable and gave it a quick waxing - and everything went back to normal.

Funny thing is that it only happened on the trunk and the hood - whereas the sides of the car did not require the re-waxing. So I don't know if it was the paint or the previous coat of pure carnuba wax that had hazed OR if it was the sun beating down on the wax / paint.

As your truck had a similar 'occurence' with the top surfaces being involved.. I am susspecting the sun and wax... and not the rain...

If it had been the paint... you would have expected the haze to appear on the top and side surfaces. But instead it only appeared on the top. So I don't know if it was the rain that had sat on the car during three wet weeks... or if it was the sun beating down on the top surface. But since it easily waxed away I won't lose too much sleep over it IF it happens again.

The paint job is now almost ONE YEAR old... and so one hazing in 12 months ain't too bad...

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It's the sun. I had a '63 Galaxie in College (red with a white top) that was the original paint...the car lived outside and I had to do a *lot* more maintenance on the hood and trunk (the roof was white and so it wasn't as noticeable). The sides never needed that much work, but I used to spend hours working on the horizontal surfaces. Being a poor college student, I didn't have a buffer so I was doing all this by hand. Man, that was a lot of work! I had to take a fine cleaner to it at least once a year to get it to really shine again. All I ever did to the sides was keep some wax on them, and they were fine. Like you said...doing a polish on it once a year with a PC is no big deal.