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I don't need to try and salvage it. I plan to repaint but was curious. The previous owner painted my truck. They did something wrong, I just don't know what. The paint is not peeling, it is just wearing off? The pictures show the current paint after 6 years. When I bought the truck 6 years ago there was only one small spot of grey primer showing through on the roof. The green was the original factory paint.

Poor preparation, of course. Maybe didn't sand the surface before painting. Maybe used the wrong primer to overcoat the original paint. Cheap quickie paint job to unload vehicle?

They don't call that color "Re-sale Red" for nothing.

I guess I would have expected paint to peel or flake, not "wear" off and just get thinner and thinner until it was gone. That is why I didn't think it was surface prep and more the paint durability or paint used.

Are you using something abrasive during maintenance? or maybe the paint is just some interior latex!!! I see no primer on the roof, inter-coat adhesion is provided by a correct combination of primers, sealers, time between coats.

No, I use a car wash brush to wash it, nothing else.

I had a paint job done in 2001 on my 77 Olds. 20 years later it is starting to do that on all the plastic filler panels.

I notice only the paint on top is wearing off. I agree with 78buckshot that "no primer was used". So this equals a quick, scuff & shoot paint job. It was more than likely a inexpensive paint with no catalyst or good UV protection (that a better paint would offer). It would've been fine for longer if it was kept indoors. Just my 2cents, I'm not a professional , but I play one on weekends

Still a nice looking truck, I'd like to see the whole thing

Just saw your link to all your pictures ........ very nice !

All new cars are painted with paint with no catalyst. Its called water crap paint. It is like a latex. And is very likely what was used, even rustoleum out of the can will hold up better than that. If you use a non 2 part color paint it is just like any body shop would do, when using the water born crap paint, then unless there is now water born clear, they would put a 2 part clear over the color. That to me looks like the normal water born paint disappearing act, that ends up happening to most cars or trucks painted with it.
Water born paint does not use a catalyst of any sort, it is just air dry. If not completely dry before the clear coat is sprayed, it will blister in the first freezing weather it see's.

Kind of reminds me of back in the 60's when Earl Scheib had his Memorial Day $100 Summertime Special. The boys would wash that paint slam off the car by Labor Day.

The sad part is the previous owner's son was supposed to be a body man. I think he did the work/paint.