In a message dated 8/30/05 5:38:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
felder@KNOLOGY.NET writes:

> The clearcoat on the bumpers of my vanagon (but not the body) and the
> top surfaces only (nothing vertical) on my volvo is chalky and white,
> appearing over about 80 of the paint surface in some place and thick
> enough to feel the height where it appears.
>
> What is a good way to get rid of it? The paint underneath most of it,
> on both cars, looks good. Can the paint be saved?
>
>

once the clearcoat comes off of a metallic paint, the exposed basecoat starts
to fade and change pigmentation from the elements.. if you remove all the
clear (wet sand - time consuming - and youll prolly wear thru the basecoat to the
primer anyway) and just reclear it, youll see the splotches where the
unprotected paint was as opposed to the part that still had good clear left on it.
BTDT. waste of time.  just respray the whole section.