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Just had a paint reaction on a 2018 Ford F-150 in the booth today
I was doing a full respray on the bed side and the clear started to wrinkle right after the second coat... it looked like orange peel but way worse. I had to stop, sand the whole panel back to primer, and switch to a different brand of clear coat. Has anyone else run into this with the newer Ford factory base coats?
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the_elizabeth1mo ago
Wait, you only did two coats of clear? That's asking for trouble on a full respray, especially over factory base. I always do at least three, sometimes a tack coat first if the base feels soft.
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alex_wilson791mo ago
Man, that's a classic solvent pop reaction. Did you give the factory base enough flash time before you laid down your first coat of clear? Those newer Ford waterborne bases can really hold onto solvents.
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ellis.leo1mo ago
Two coats of clear felt like a solid plan right up until I saw the finish. I got in a hurry on a customer's Explorer last month, same deal with the waterborne base, and ended up with a surface that looked like orange peel. I should have listened to @the_elizabeth about that third coat. It's a lesson you only need to learn once, watching all that work go wrong because you tried to save an hour. Those solvents just have nowhere to go but out, and they take the clear with them.
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