How Honda avoided a class action warranty on this is beyond me, but LoTs of mid 2000's Hondas had clear coat that just bubbled up with any serious UV exposure. My little fit is no different. It doesn't bother me much as it is just a cheap commuter, but I figure fix it now for cheaper than later for more is the best idea.

It is basically symmetrical. The hood, the body above the doors, side and rear, and at the base of the windows on the side doors.

There's always Maaco, but I the places it is at would be very easy to tape off, sand down, and paint with maybe a flat black and would look ok at least. Or so the same and plastidip it.

I have an electric sprayer and also a good compressir and air setup u could use for an air sprayer, but no experience painting that way.

I rattle can most things, and roll and tip my boats.

Advice?

A blindfolded 3-year old could do a better job than MAACO

You want to try my body shop dude?

Might be worth checking into just to get an estimate. My goal is low cost solution that keeps it from rusting anywhere.

Sounds like repeated use of overly aggressive automated car washes. My grandmother's Corolla had the same thing happen after a few years of car washes.

Lots of "stories" on the interwebs abound about the Honda paint problem. The body shop guys told me the problem was switching to some more environmentally friendly clear coats in the early to mid 2000s time frame that haven't performed well at all in heat. More problems in hotter climates and on darker colors. I believe Honda dealers would repaint the panels of any cars that had problems if they were within 5 years or so of being new from around 2002 to 2007 at one point in time but that program has been gone for awhile.

My kids and I stripped the bad places down to metal and then bought some matched/mixed paint and clearcoat on Amazon to go with the OReilly's primer. Harbor freight spraygun and we painted the problem areas. The daughter that drives it says it looks good until you get about 5 feet from it and then you can tell it was our first effort because we didn't do much of a job of blending the new and old.

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Might be worth checking into just to get an estimate. My goal is low cost solution that keeps it from rusting anywhere.

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Plastidip

I think the peeling clear coat will look better than any plastidip or black paint cover up

You obviously care about the cars presentation and the first scenario looks like a owner who is either broke or apathetic, the other is clearly broke.

Never heard of anyone using an electric sprayer for car paint.

Dark color and it was in corpus before I bought it a couple years.

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Never heard of anyone using an electric sprayer for car paint.

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They were used quite extensively from around the early '90s until I don't know when -- some may still use them. Environmental issues or sold a bill of goods, I'm not sure the reason. Maybe some think they work better.

I've never sprayed a car before but my electric sprayer I have for latex/house paint sprays well. I don't know why it couldn't be used on metal.