I have a bit of an odd question. I messed up and bought this 2013 Escalade knowing the roof and hood needed to be repainted. I thought I looked it over well enough and didn’t see any damage on the rest of the truck, specifically the tops of the doors, quarters, and fenders. The truck is metallic black, was slightly dirty when I looked, and the damage is so small that I missed it. I washed it the other day and found some very small cracks starting in the clear coat on the top of the right front door, one corner each on both rear doors, and after I buffed one quarter as a test found a couple cracks on top of the quarter. I bought this truck to be the family car and it won’t be garage kept since it doesn’t fit and because of all the other work it needs, I’m not really wanting to spend $10k on an all over. I’m willing to get the hood and roof painted since I was planning on that when I bought it. So I had an idea to wrap the tops of the quarters and tops of the doors in PPF to hopefully stop or at least seriously slow down the deterioration. I don’t need this truck perfect but I don’t want it shit either. If I can stop it where it is and/or keep it from getting real bad for a few years, I’ll be happy. So that brings me to my question.
Is there reason this may be a bad idea? Will where the clear coat cracking cause any outgassing and air bubbles? Or worse, will it be like a green house and speed up the deterioration?
