an easy fix for peeling grill on 04 maxima

[airbowline]

Like a lot of Nissans, the clearcoat (which is actually gray) on the front grill began peeling and looked terrible. My peeling was confined to the center portion.

I got brave, and tested a gel-type brushable paint stripper (from home depot, brand is kr3 but it probably doesn't matter) on a tiny section. After a minute, it took off the coat and had no effect on the underlying chrome.

I masked off the affected area and applied a thick coat to the bad areas. After a couple of minutes, most of the coating could be wiped off with a paper towel. I repeated the treatment and then followed up with some fingernail work and windex and paper towels to remove the last tiny bits.

The result is a clean, chrome colored center section (I left the circular Nissan area untouched). Looks a whole lot better!

[sergey85]

post some pics broman

[airbowline]

post some pics broman[/quote]




The flat area was cleaned; the center circular area has the original coating still in decent shape

[Ironraider]

Originally Posted by airbowline

Like a lot of Nissans, the clearcoat (which is actually gray) on the front grill began peeling and looked terrible. My peeling was confined to the center portion.

I got brave, and tested a gel-type brushable paint stripper (from home depot, brand is kr3 but it probably doesn't matter) on a tiny section. After a minute, it took off the coat and had no effect on the underlying chrome.

I masked off the affected area and applied a thick coat to the bad areas. After a couple of minutes, most of the coating could be wiped off with a paper towel. I repeated the treatment and then followed up with some fingernail work and windex and paper towels to remove the last tiny bits.

The result is a clean, chrome colored center section (I left the circular Nissan area untouched). Looks a whole lot better!

Great tip...thanks! I've got an '05 that has the same situation and I was looking for a way to clean this up.

Awesome look to the final product!

[sergey85]

nice bro

[06_Max]

yea this is gonna help me, i just bought a 06 with the same problem so im definitally gonna hit up home depot today...thanks for the tip