possible to add more clear coat?

Forrest

Was wondering if i had the car polished to near perfection could i have more clear coat added to the cars paint?

I keep thinking just use Porter Cable to remove any blemish but how long am I going to be able to get away with this before area's start getting thin.

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cptspeed

would like to hear an educated opinion on this too.

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dad

I believe the GTR has 2 coats of clear, correct me if I'm wrong.

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ThoriumHotdog

I know its possible but I'm not sure what the process is. I too would like to hear from someone with more experience in this matter.

christian370z

To re-coat and add clear, you will have to prep it just like a regular paint job minus the primer and color coat. Therefore, you will be dropping enough coin to get you most of the way to a full paint job so no, it is not worth it.

You do not need to worry about running out of clear, however there are a couple things you need to keep in mind when doing maintenance polishing sessions:

1) Make sure your wash and cleaning process is as safe as possible to prevent swirls from being inflicted on the paint. You should only have to do a light polishing every 6-12 months.

2) Always use the least aggressive approach: a finishing polish such as Menzerna po85rd, Meguair's 205 polish, or any other fine abrasive polish and a finishing pad. Remember, you can always take off more clear if needed, but you can never get it back once it's gone.

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Nele22

What he said ^

AdamsPolishes

The PC is also a VERY mild approach to polishing... it would take a signifigantly aggressive approach and many many many many many times polishing to ever have to begin to worry about your clear getting thin.

In the end if you do a good job of maintaining the car once its corrected, do your best to prevent the introduction of new swirl marks, and only polish a couple times a year (which is how it should be if you do everything correctly) then you'll never have to worry about it.

The average clear coat thickness on a new car is around 2 mils... the more modern powdered and electro charged clear coats are thicker, but I'm not sure as to what process nissan is using so lets assume you're working with 2 mils.

If you were to go at your finish with an absolutely crazy aggressive approach - say 2000 grit sanding and then a heavy cut compound on a rotary you'd probably only remove in the realm of .2-.3 of a mil... assuming that you are caring for your car and the damage you're removing at this point is fairly minor the amount of polishing needed to get a flawless finish is going to be only a fraction of that.

Maintenance beyond that will only be an even smaller fraction of a mil... so in the long run the PC and most average swirl removing polishes and finishing polishes are going to remove so little that there really is no concern even if you are a compulsive PC polisher. LOL

Hope thats not to rambling of an answer.

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Forrest

All I am using is the Adams polishes. I am not doing it a lot. But once a year seems like its gonna happen.

From what I have seen the Adams polishes are mild compared to other things.

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