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Posted: Wed Oct 21st, 2020 08:50 pm

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I have had two vehicles with silver paint and clearcoat. Both have pealed miserably. The first was an 84 Olds 88 2-door, a land yacht. I had a sudo-paint booth and I laid down about 9 coats of Imeron Porsche Red with minor sanding on the the first 5 coats. Once I buffed it with polishing compound it looked a foot deep. It was a huge success as I also painted the door jams and the inside of the trunk lid and hood. When I blew the diesel 350 my supervisor offered me 3 times what I paid for it so he could convert it to gas. He put a HP 350 crate engine in it and is still driving it.

The Ranger is a parts runner for my farm that is now almost defunct. I have been driving it for the past 4 years as it was a better choice over a POS Tundra 4x4 V8. I started driving it when it had 80k miles on it. The paint was starting to peal then but it had better acceleration than the Tundra and also got 150% better fuel mileage.

I sanded off the runs. I also got the bed ready to re-paint. I will have a makeshift paint booth the next 3 days. No more leaves in the pant. I have lots of pep to get accomplished in the next day or two.

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Tony
NE ATL
'04 XLT regular cab 3.slo stepside
Semi retirement