Corolla e90 paintwork

[samothreesixty]

Hey, 
Had this car for a few months and it has been a dream to drive. Only issue i have recently had is to do with the paintwork. People say that power washing your car will not do any damage, but it has left bad results on mine. My neighbour did it since he got the car dirty after cleaning his drive, and when i asked he said he was spraying at a distance to make sure there would not be any damage. Well here is what it has done.

Is there a reason why it is so weak? Any advice?

From my knowledge it has not had a re-spray...

Any help would be appreciated.

[samothreesixty]

[kevstarlet]

That looks like there was microblisters in the paint and the power washer lifted the paint. It was going to happen sooner or later.

[samothreesixty]

Jul 22, 2017 10:00:45 GMT kevstarlet said:

That looks like there was microblisters in the paint and the power washer lifted the paint. It was going to happen sooner or later.

I see what you mean. Is there any way to avoid that happining or is it just a tendency that happens with older car paintwork?

[Deleted]

The wing has certainly been painted before and poor quality paintwork at that which is now why the paint is lifting / separating from the primer - micro blisters tend to be circular in form rather than the random shapes that the areas of paint lift that you have - it would also appear that there is some paint crazing between the paint lift areas too. Only way to cure this is to remove the existing defective paintwork and start again.