Deposits on paint, Acid rain

if the paint is acid etched, the clear coat will lift off soon, you will need a proper paint job to restore it.

dont be surprised on the stupidies you see in GCC etc. about 90% of any staff in any capacity is dumber than rock.

You need proper car detailing with a serious, hard paint coating/glass coating on it to provide maximum resistance from etching.

Moreover it is advised that you wash ur car soon after it rains, it should be a simple quick wash with hose and car shampoo. The thing is, that if your paint has no wax/sealant/coating on it.. the acidic water will eat through it, really really badly! (People assume water is harmless to paint, hard water or acidic one is fatal for it) But if there is some protection on it, it will resist the harm better.

Paint coating/glass coating is the toughest protection you can buy. So go for a full detail and protection.

Also you may keep a quality detailing spray + 2 Micro fibre towels handy... Just to wipe and water marks you come across, or when u dont feel like giving ur LC a full bath

You should opt for protection on windows and rims too.. there are many specific products out there, specifically designed.

Apart from all the protective coatings suggested by others why not invest in a waterproof cover for your vehicle? Or if possible assemble a shed and park your Landie under it. That should help a bit.

apply gently (proper) scrubber first then apply good quality cutting cream on affected areas then wax it you will see the difference.

Im not into detailing but I have done bodywork and mechanical work myself on all sorts of cars. This person has a GCC spec land cruiser which does not have the piece of scrap quality paint that is done on JDM cars. The GCC paint is a bit different (if you recall old corollas/civics/lancers/accords/galants/coronas/charade/justy etc etc that used to be imported into Pakistan as "new cars") - they had far better paint quality than the "JDM aka reconditioned" cars.

anyway - we are not discussing local vs japani paint - because if you want to discuss that then I will drag in 80s VW and SAAB cars - their paint quality was like diamonds compared to japanese cars.

You are very mistaken by the concept of champi paalish of cars, you are limited at only beautifying whatever you have to work with - so please explain to me that how would you go about shining up a car whose clear coat is gone/delaminated - just as you mentioned above.

If you do have such a technique that can repair acid etch and clear coat delaminate damage on vehicular finishes as field service and within sensible budgeting then there is a job opening for you in one of the biggest names of chemical research - you can make billions of dollars if you can prove what you claimed.

Dude... he has acid rain, acid rain is almost everywhere in the world these days! He hasnt got pure HCL spilled over his car!

As I said, only OP can tell how bad it is! Why are u assuming his clear coat is already gone? and where the heck I mentioned that a car's paint can be revived if its clear coat is gone?

We are not talking ebt cars that were parked in the barn for years! Its a daily driven and probably a newer model car.

acid rain damage when in concentration that even his glass was etched is called too much damage aka irrepairable on the paint surface. It might look fine n dandy right now, but the clear coat will delaminate - it has been seen even at brand new car parking lots outside assembly lines. Such cars are repainted by the same assembly line and then shipped out, there is a makeshift setup nowadays that apply a plastic sheet to the whole finished cars (audi are famous for this). Nissan, Subaru, Honda and Toyota only do that on the horizontal surfaces to protect from this very phenomenon.

Your answer to the clear coat revival is highlighted.

My intention here is to help the OP with some little knowledge that I have in my field. I have no intentions of starting an argument with a third party.. but you very much seem to have an intention to argue.

You are listening not to understand, but to argue... a problem very common with senior Pakeheelers Im afraid.
Good for you, you can very well have your pride and self belief of rightoeousness!

You and me are way off in definition of etching, I believe you think etching means a paint thats gone and cracking off...

Every car has 50-100 or more microns of clear coat, etching would appear on it as small spots were the acidic material is slowly eating up the paint... if the acid has not already gone all the way through the depth of clear coat microns. It can very well be buffed out and repaired.

Stuborn water spots on windows are also etchings in detailers language... but that does not mean he has got holes in his glass! And those can be very well reduced or removed with right tools too.

Now as I expect my reply would really burn your ego, I will calmly request you not to re-quote my post with your knowledge full of high tec 80's saab's paint work!

Peace & out.

huh?

ego? - have I ever given any advice out of ego issues? - I have met a few members here and I think they can attest that I am a common man, almost invisible if you met me in real life.

now - you mention that hard water stains on glass as etch, I would disgree because, that stain is actually a "stain" its a buildup of material which is adhered to the glass, etching on the other hand actually changes the physical surface of the material irreversibly. e.g. if you acid etch a brass item, you cannot restore it back without mechanical means which means removing that etched layer, speaking of the same brass material - they do get tarnished which are reshined with some naphta distillate, the tarnish is not classified as etch.

using the same example on paint, you can fill in microscratches on paint from wear and tear (debris hitting it on highway) because the coat structure is intact - you can cut it down to "polish" it but there is no way to revive an acid eaten clear coat as it delaminates (in this case so strong that even the glass is etched), its not about ego or SAAB paint or trying to diss detailers - but there are certain limits on repair fundamentals.

examplifying mechanical terms - if a cylinder is worn oval and has bad compression rings on the piston, using liqui moly ceratec wont magically build up the missing metal. The only repair that can bring it back to service spec is a larger rebore and replacement of piston and ring assembly.

We dont know if the OP actually cares about this truck finish (honestly I have never found a land cruiser owner who shines his truck) - but my posts are backed on experiences I have studied and seen on production line as well. The slime coating used in olden days was exactly that, mercedes benz used cosmoline - I think we are discussing two avenues - you are assuming its a peppered surface, while Im recalling the ugly etching that I witnessed.

Face palm...!

share knowledge peacefully guys
before the thread is cleaned and locked up
thanks