Lacquer peel

[Razzo4112]

is there a successful way to treating lacquer peel, or is it one of tho's things you gotta live with?

[rj scotty]

is there a successful way to treating lacquer peel, or is it one of tho's things you gotta live with?

is it a flat or metallic colour underneath ?

[Christophski]

Same question but mine is metallic underneath

[rj scotty]

If its not metallic you can buff the lacquer and blend it in with the colour coat underneath, put loads of wax on after and it looks OK.

If it is metallic the above process is much more visible put if its peeling bad you ain't got a lot to lose in giving it a go.

Also with non metallic you can sand back the lacquer with a p800 wet and dry and providing you don't break through the color coat have a lacquer only respray.

[Razzo4112]

Cheers man, unfortunatly it is mettalic emerald green, its mostly up by the roof bars!

[Razzo4112]

*metallic

[Christophski]

Snap, mine is emarald green too. Round by the bump strips and by the bottom of the rear window rubbers

[Razzo4112]

Yep thats it!!
You done anything bout it?

[daveevo]

yes mine is same colour ,and one of the rear doors is bad !

[Christophski]

Yes, got a quote for half a car respray. Thought may as well bite the bullet.

[Razzo4112]

Yea i was thinking bout that, bet it was pretty expensive though

[kulster]

When i was on the hunt for an straight avant, lots of them had laquer peel around the roof bars, its not exactly hard to remove them for prep before painting, its called lazy preppers/painters