Looks like I'm going to have my bonnet repainted under warranty at the local VW bodyshop
When I first picked up my car in September 2006 it looked fabulous in the showroom and all appeared perfect. Next day, with the sun shining behind me (yes it sometimes does shine in the NE
), I noticed what I thought was polish residue on the rear edge of the bonnet. It turned out that the factory paint had in fact been scraped off in two locations by some dork who had obviously lifted the wipers from the screen without parking them correctly and the top coat/lacquer had been scraped off, exposing the white undercoat. Dealer accepted it was their fault (probably the PDI inspection or valeter) and the car went in for the offending areas to be touched up. First go lasted less than a week and the paint began flaking off again. Second go has lasted until now but the paint has now lifted again and is actually starting to bubble up
Contacted dealer today and have to take it into the bodyshop this week for a look. Seems there will be either 2 options, localised repair/repaint again or a full bonnet respray. Personally don't fancy the latter but this may be necessary, given the fact that the two previous attempts have faied and the paint is pearlescent metallic.
Tw@ts
Cass
