I get that the BlackSwan is 11 years old , but little rust bubbles over the right rear tire have shown up!
So, I cleaned off the loose paint and sprayed a rust converter in the bare metal, I will prime and colour coat it tomorrow, then clear coat it next week .



This is the product my body and paint guy recommended

The sheet metal looks good no rust holes. Just loose bubbled paint. This is a photo after a coat of the rust converter

 

This could be an excuse for an awesome 2 tone paint job???

 

Blue- Bummer on the paint lifting issue..

I vote 2 tone as well.

 

Been nice to have a before picture. Looks like you have paper towel plastered on it.

 

Closest before photo, the paper towel look is factory primer but mostly that is bare metal.

 

Mine was starting to get that tired old look so I decided to do something entirely different. The 2 tone with chrome wrap on the bumpers and 40/50's graphics would be simple and awesome. I really struggled with that since it would have been beautiful. But I really hate having something that I have to wash, polish and wax all the time.

 

We have a local "Rust Check" franchise but they refuse to do any cleaning before they spray on whatever goo they use. I'm not sold.

I run our Winter-driven HHR through a local carwash that has a robust underbody spray several times during salt season and at least twice more after the danger of road salt is over. Calcium chloride, one thing they use when it's so cold plain old salt stops working, is particulary nasty because it's more corrosive and it's disliquescent; it stays wet by absorbing water vapor from the atmosphere and keeps on making rust even when the weather is dry, and as a chemical reaction it happens faster when it's warm. If you don't wash it away, stuff keeps rusting your car all Summer long.

Road salt damages infrastructure, spalling concrete and corroding rebar and pipes, and is a pollutant, too. The local administration has taken to dumping "brine" and excessive salt proatively when even a chance of snow is predected. It's infuriating.

 

Oh, I get why the paint bubbled, somebody swung their door open and hit my rear fender! That loosened up the paint! I don’t know exactly when but I know it happened. As for a full repaint or tutone, not my style for this car.
it’s 11 years old, my DD, has over 160,000 miles on it. It has to last me another 10 years , so I just want to keep the rust at bay SS long as I can.
Past experience with a full respray tells me that rust will resurface eventually, maybe not the exact spot but close to it!
We have salt, and brine on our roads, and I know that you have to clean it off ( I use a foam cannon and Dawn dish detergent) , it is a never ending battle and as Neil sang , Rust Never Sleeps!

 

Just finished masking off the respray area, I sanded with 800 wet, sprayed a polymer primer, I’ll let that dry over the next week, then spray the colour coat!

 

I sanded with 800 wet, Man that's really fine grit for primer to bite into imo..

320 would have been my choice..