Lacquer Peel: Causes and the Proper Fix

What's happening

The clear lacquer over your colour has failed and started to lift, usually after years of UV. Once it goes, the colour underneath deteriorates fast.

Why you can't just paint over it

Fresh paint over failing lacquer has nothing sound to bond to, so it fails again. The area has to be taken back to a stable surface first.

The proper fix

We strip the affected area back, prepare it and refinish it, blended to match. On badly affected cars a full respray is often the tidiest answer.

Get it assessed early

Peel only spreads. Bring the car to our Grimsby workshop and we'll advise how far it's gone.

From the workshop

Honda Civic — front wing repair, blended into the door

A typical panel job: one damaged front wing, repaired and refinished, with the colour blended into the door so there's no hard edge for the eye to…

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