Britludes NSX story

[britlude]

latest mini-update! now with pics!

when i got the car, the roof had been polished through the lacquer, so shortly after i got it and i'd got fed up looking at it every time i opened the car i repainted the roof! flatted back, painted, and polished back to original. by 'original' i mean back to a nice black roof, with a polished through the lacquer bit in exactly the same place! bum!

so when i got fed up of looking at the shiny fresh polished through bit, i eventually painted it again, again flatting back, barrier coating, primer, black, lacquer, and once finished i had a glassy smooth lovely roof!

move on about 3 years, and the roof begins to have some micro-blistering, 3 yrs fine, then it decides to erupt. i put up with this for a year, then flat and polish, again i'm back to glassy, but know the problem is still there, and last year it worked its way through again, ending the year looking like a tiny bubbled pizza! just like this... no, it's not wet!
2014-03-07-4495 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

enough was enough, i had to bite the bullet and get on with it! with the hot spell recently, supplies were bought and the car set upon!

with micro blisters you have to flat down to find the source and remove it, unfortunately in my case, as suspected it was the barrier coat, so all the paint i had put on was removed..... the first coat of paint i has put on caused the problem! typical!

2014-03-07-4499 by jon sutherland, on Flickr

at the bottom of the pic the 'grey' is the lacquer, with black dots, where the black has been pushed up, next up is the black paint with beige dots, where the primer is erupting through the black!

moving along top left, you can just see where we have the grey of the barrier coat coming through the primer! bum!

so all stripped off! (before the trims/ b-pillars removed, and the roof edges finished, the trims/b-pillars were painted too!!)
2014-03-07-4501 by jon sutherland, on Flickr