Fix this Paint? Any ideas that I do not have to repaint the whole Suburban?

[Grit dog]

I won't bet the farm on it, but I'm nearly certain my '88 Burb was single stage (It had been resprayed in base/clear and the clear is wearing thin). My old '90 Burb was original paint and it was base/clear.

At any rate, the OP's rig is NOT wearing it's original paint and the clearcoat delam is likely a cause of low quality paint or improper prep. Much like these two re-sprays lol:

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For what it's worth, the rig in question is glossy overall. I personally would just drive it ant not worry about it.

Ya that’s what I was saying. Pretty positive it’s not original paint. But idk what year they started clear. I haven’t been around any 86+ original squarebodys since they were original! lol.

 

[bucket]

Ya that’s what I was saying. Pretty positive it’s not original paint. But idk what year they started clear. I haven’t been around any 86+ original squarebodys since they were original! lol.

Yeah, I was just backing you up. It is 100% for sure not the original paint.

 

[Grit dog]

whatever you do - DO NOT let any bodyshop convince you to sand back to bare metal ( especially on the edges of doors etc. ). As bad as OEM factory top coats are, you will be hard pressed to replicate the original cleaning and phosphate anti corrosion prep from the factory.
As stated above, lightly scrape and / or sand off the clear if you choose to, however try to retain as much of the factory colour coat as possible as a solid foundation for whatever you put back on. It WILL save you heartache down the road if you are planning on keeping the truck for any reasonable period of time ( read 3+ years).
Also if you can't remove window rubber, you can lift and insert a line of plastic coated wire all around the frame. That will allow the re-spray to not form a crappy hard edge around the rubbers.

I’d disagree if it actually was factory paint. That era of vehicle peeled paint like no other. If you see black factory primer under anything, keep sanding.
However this isn’t factory paint and it looks pretty old and just the clear peeling.
Clear has to go. Down to base coat. Everywhere except maybe the lower half that didn’t see direct sunlight. From maybe half down the doors and fenders if it feathers good I’d probably just scuff from there on down. Any surfaces that are > 90 degrees to the ground, can’t leave any clear.

 

[73 cheySuper]

Anything I plan on keeping, or a high end car, or a car that'll see the outside weather more than the insdide......gets taken down to metal and SPI epoxy as a foundation. Only exception would be the early corvettes and it's factory red oxide primer.

 

[Sad Sack]

Now, when the color coat starts separating or peeling from the primer then the fun begins...

 

[Dejure]

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