As far as the clear coat goes: The manufacturer does not recommend it.<\/p>\n
That being said, everybody does it. I have been telling body shops for years not to clear coat over stripes and graphics. Hardly ever though is there a problem – when they do mess up, the clear coat “pops” off the vinyl. Most body shops never have a problem. But I don’t know how they do it.<\/p>\n
Have another question about decals<\/a>, signs<\/a>, lettering<\/a>, Although the manufacturer does not recommend clear coating over vinyl lettering, many body shops do so without major issues. The primary risk is that the vinyl expands and contracts at a different rate than the clear coat, which can occasionally cause the clear coat to peel or pop off. Ultimately, a top coat is not necessary for the durability of the lettering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/1141"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signspecialist.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nor stripes<\/a>? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"