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Sometimes the devil is involved!

I'll give the short version of my tale of woe. Nearly two decades ago a pretty new car was brought to the shop for a minor repair and panel refinish. The first refinish came off in sheets. This caused us to have to expand our paint field (for color match reasons, a tough to match, light goldish color). This happened again and again to where my painter was at wits end, and we got my supplier involved and they had two of their expert painters redo it....twice more! Long story short, we completely repainted that car three times before it finally stuck, and to this day don't know what the real problem was. My suspicion was the "clear coat protectant" that the dealers typically sold for $300 or so. But the dealer was a referral source so we did lots of cars that they treated. We used every precleaning process known at the time. No other job in the shop shot with the same materials, same painter, same equipment, same environment, yada yada, had this kind of failure. In the end we named it the "Camry from Hell" and were extremely happy to see it go away.