Hey all, I picked up a trunk for about 90% off a few months ago. It had a pretty gnarly crack right in the corner. My hope was it was not down to the fiber but seems that it was and that this piece was previously repaired. I used some stripper to remove the old yellowing clear coat and have since sanded down the offending areas to the fiber. It won’t look perfect but most of the issues will be right where emblems go. My question is steps for repairing it. Old clear is gone but there’s some oxidized areas that are hazy. Having sanded down the clear coat I worked my way up from 180 to 400. Should I wet sand the oxidized areas and polish them until they’re clear, then lay new resin the the cracked areas and scuff everything again for new clear?
Cracker is in bottom left, I actually think this trunk was previously repaired (poorly but probably not any better than I will be able to). I found some small blemishes previously filled with resin that’s more yellow. When I sanded the bottom edge of the cracked area it went straight through the fibers and there’s a clear portion of resin that I can see multiple layers of fiber missing in that yellowish area. I think someone laid a patch and resined it in from a big hole but idk. It’s weird to me that the outer layer of fiber was so thin and you can see clear through the resin and other layers of fiber that are missing within the resin in that area.