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Old 10-01-2006, 05:39 PM
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If you have fish eyes and some spider cracks you need more than a simple repaint. The involved areas will need to be completely taken down to bare glass and re-prepped. Spider cracks may be in the fiberglas itself rather than only paint film deep. Fish eyes may result for several different factors and persist even through several coats. I agree with JayBar. Leave the body on but remove all the exterior parts and carefully and completely mask off anything that you do not wish to be painted. Personally, I would remove the doors, hood and trunk lid along with all the weatherstripping. The stripping can always be replaced. 3M makes a full line of self-adhesive weather stripping that makes it easy. Finally, a new paint job is only as good as the preparation and the ability of the painter.
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