Faded Paint?

[imported_Termigator]

I am currently working on my cousin`s 94` gold Camry. The paint has faded pretty badly and the hood has experienced clearcoat failure. It will need to be repainted. We were hoping to polish out the rest of the car and only repaint the hood. I polished the trunk with M105 and it looks a lot better now. The trunk lid clearly has more gloss than the rest of the car. However, the area underneath the spoiler (the spoiler actually got ripped off by accident a few weeks ago.) clearly shows the paint in it`s original color. It is much deeper compared to the rest of the trunk. Could the gold paint underneath the clearcoat have faded from overexposure. It that`s true, then repainting the hood is going to be pointless, as it won`t match the rest of the faded paint on the car.

[imported_Luster]

Paint will fade under the clear from sun exposure. The painter will not be able to use the original paint code color. But he should be able to use a paint color "reader" to determine a matching color.

Body shops match faded paint all the time, but, again, they are matching the existing color, not applying the original color.

[imported_Termigator]

Thanks for the info. I read a little about the paint matching thing on the Maaco website. I`ll pass along the info. to my cousin. Depending on what he decides on, I might go ahead and polish the rest of the car.

[imported_Luster]

Yeah, the body shop did a good job of re-painting the front bumper on my 27-year-old Vette. Even though it was re-painted about 16 years ago and slightly faded, they did a great job of painting it without repainting the entire car! (Plus it only cost $400 bucks instead of $6000!)