White paint peeling badly on my bonnet, so I tried wrapping!

[threepot]

Thought I would post this here as I can't be the only one with this problem.

The paint has been peeling on my bonnet since I imported the Vellfire a few years back, it started from the stone chips and water got under the paint and lifted more.

It was starting to get ugly, I put some small stickers over it to try and stop it, but the peeling grew and grew.

Went to see a couple of different bodyshops where I know the guys, they warned me that because of the white pearl paint it is nearly impossible to match and blending in over panels stands out really badly, it would never be a case of just painting the bonnet 😭

So one night a few weeks ago I just peeled all the flaking paint off the whole bonnet and ended up like this:-

 

Sanded the edges of the paint back to make it as smooth as possible then had a few experiments with some white carbon vinyl car wrap, came to the conclusion the hardest bits on the bonnet is where the 3 crease lines meet so tried those bit a couple of times with some off cuts:-

 

Then went for! Got everything clean and layed that puppy down with the help of a mate as a second pair of hands, and seeing as neither of us have ever tried to wrap anything before  it went surprisingly well on the first shot 🥳 no defects, bubbles, creases or anything at all!

 

 

Anyway, hope that gives you a bit of confidence if you are thinking of doing something similar, it wasn't that hard at all, and it looks much tidier now for a rough daily work truck.

 

[Michael Brown]

Well done for coming up with a solution.

 

When I have had to have paintwork touch up done, I used "Chips Away" in Chichester and they did a good job matching up the paintwork . Mine is Olive Green in colour and looks Pearlescent.

[Honza]

Ooks great. Mine started to peal too. At the moment only anout 35mm round spot right in the middle of bonnet. Sealed it with touch up paint and thinking of applying some decal strips to the middle of bonnet.

I am only worried that im may,start bubbli g under fhe wrap or another spots.

Keep and eye on and touching up the chips I quess.

[Chris.ac]

Yeah, i need to do mine, plus the paint between windscreen and sunroof. 

 

I did find colour matched wrap, bit not used this, not sure if it's as they state. 

 

https://www.colorxlabs.com/products/color-match-wrap-vehicle-wrap-that-matches-oem-paint-color

[Rojie]

39 minutes ago, Chris.ac said:

Yeah, i need to do mine, plus the paint between windscreen and sunroof. 

 

I did find colour matched wrap, bit not used this, not sure if it's as they state. 

 

https://www.colorxlabs.com/products/color-match-wrap-vehicle-wrap-that-matches-oem-paint-color

 

Hi Chris,

 

Did you notice it's American ?

it may be difficult to get.

[Chris.ac]

3 hours ago, Rojie said:

 

Hi Chris,

 

Did you notice it's American ?

it may be difficult to get.

They offer shipping to UK. Also I've seen UK based that offer similar service

[threepot]

9 hours ago, Honza said:

Ooks great. Mine started to peal too. At the moment only anout 35mm round spot right in the middle of bonnet. Sealed it with touch up paint and thinking of applying some decal strips to the middle of bonnet.

I am only worried that it may,start bubbling under the wrap or another spots.

Keep and eye on and touching up the chips I guess.

 

I tried to hide mine with stickers for a year but when you look closely you find there is more delaminating paint than you expect, then when I removed the stickers all the paint came off with them. Really I was just after a cheap and quick fix as the van was looking scruffy and I was scared to jet wash it as more paint always came off. The white carbon effect wrap does blend in with the paint work once there is a layer of dirt all over the van. My Alphard/Vellfire is a work horse, always towing stuff, filling up the back with stuff for tip runs - used it earlier to push an empty skip into a better location!

 

7 hours ago, Chris.ac said:

Yeah, i need to do mine, plus the paint between windscreen and sunroof. 

I did find colour matched wrap, bit not used this, not sure if it's as they state. 

https://www.colorxlabs.com/products/color-match-wrap-vehicle-wrap-that-matches-oem-paint-color

 

I wouldn't be scared of having a go at DIY wrapping simple panels, its really pretty easy to be fair. Just need a clean environment so you don't get any debris under it and the static when you peel the back off sure does attract everything.

[Chris.ac]

I've seen the official instructions from the usa for this paint recall, it advises using packaging tape to 'pull test' the adherence of the paint, along the edges of the peeling until you get to a solid bond.

 

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10170718-9999.pdf

[threepot]

Wow, so they half admit there is a problem but for only 3 years or 36000 miles!

Yes, certainly if you put any good tape on my van and pulled it off you would certainly see primer 😂

[Voodoo101]

I have peeling on the bonnet, just at the leading edge where the stone chips started, so Im going to just put a black strip along the front. The main problem is the tailgate under the window, around the badge