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JCat
Explorer III
Oct 20, 2013

Gelcoat Cracks

My friend who is not a memeber of the forum asked me to post this for him.

He has a 11 yer old class A, good brand(I don't want to talk bad about the brand) who is still in business, and he has these small cracks in the gelcoat, mostly where the darker colors are located.

The cracks are about 1/8 inch and can only be seen when u are close up to the RV.

He has talked to 2 repair places in CA and one said that the fiberglass was not fully cured whaen the paint was applied and out gassing occured as it cured and this caused the paint to crack which caused the gelcoat to crack.

Another paint place said the manufacturer of the RV used cheap fiberglass and that it has cracked and caused the paint to crack.

One estimate was $22K to grind off the gelcoat, repair the bad fiberglass, repaint and reclear the RV.

Seems like a lot of money and it seems like the manufacturer should be paying since they screwed it up either way.

Anyone seen this and if yes how was it fxed and at what cost ?