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Originally Posted by BrianW
Agree: that’s really odd. Is it out of warranty from SMB? Even if so, at only five years old it can’t be THAT far out of warranty (don’t they do five years?) Are you the original owner? If so, I would definitely push back hard on their dismissive answer and get them to fix it.
To do any sort of recoat in that top you’re going to have to strip the entire top coat (whatever it is) to get a good foundation for the new covering.
As an aside, I have seen clear coat peel (usually on a repaint, not OEM), but not in long strips like that. Something must have been off in the original prep for that to happen. Maybe @JWA can shed some light from his body shop days.
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IF SMB's response is its clear coat peeling away and they're unwilling to do anything or they're too far away to be practical I'd contact a local body or boat shop to get their input.
FWIW I'm hard pressed to recall ever seeing that sort of peeling away of any spray applied coating, not in sheets like that. Of course I did have a '97 E250 in dark blue metallic that was flaking off in various sections, more like 1" square spots at a time though. (The issue was water-borne primers were used which was hard and slick as glass---something a base finish coating just does NOT like. Even when the color coat was gone that hardass primer was untouched.
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If DIY Raptor-like recoating is the solution anther name in the mix might be MonstaLiner---what I like most about that brand is they sell tints for their material. Here's their site:
http://www.monstaliner.com/monstaliner_pricing.htm
I also found this somewhat lengthy but very informative YouTube "review" or lessons learned using MonstaLiner:
Not sure any of that's helpful but maybe?