Experts-what happened here??

[kcoyle]

The car has been like this since I bought it, no real history on the car. Apparently it was repaired/resprayed at some point. There looks to be 2 layers of paint and the bottom layer looks "cracked" for lack of a better word. This happens to be on the hood on the hotside (manifold/turbo) and over the battery. Any ideas what happened? Any DIY repair possible?

Thanks
Kevin

[drcoastline]

Lots of things it could be. The best way to correct it is to sand it down and repaint.

[AVDCAV]

That is filler that had not cured before a scim of polyester was applied.
Then painted to soon. The circle is just a crap blend job.

Bright side. The hood comes off in seconds , hit that sucker with
Aircraft paint remover and strip it clean. If your not a body or paint man
Take to a shop. . Silver is not the color to learn on.

[kcoyle]

Thanks for the info, the filler thing makes sense now. I will be staring at it for years to come and was wondering what the hell happened. I thought maybe the repaint just wore off over time.

KC