Reply to "Discreet chassis brace?"

You are going to get varying opinions on this but my observation is that cars that have been stripped down to metal, then reprimed and repainted are very susceptible to cracks in all of the know stress points.

The first one to appear on mine was in the curved opening of the roof where the decklid mounts.

The problem is the car sat with it's brand new fresh paint in the garage all winter and was never driven. You can't prove to me it was from vibration stress through the skin.

Where you are indicating cracking is another area where the paint will just crack all by itself and look like a stress crack.

The other area where the paint will crack all by itself is at the base of the windshield post and the intersection of the front fender.

My wife was the first to notice it was just the cars with the new paint. The original beaters had no cracks.

Makes me wonder if there is some flex agent mixed into the original paint?