Removing Lacquer

[rswift]

I hardly dare bring myself to ask this on a detailing forum, but he we go ... i'll await the abuse.

We have an old Range Rover Classic in our fleet, it'a done 200k, regularly used and has all of the scrapes and marks you would expect on a 20 year old 4x4.

The thing that makes it look really tatty is that the lacquer has lifted in big patches on the roof, so my question ... what is the best way to remove the lacquer, but leave the paint. I know the paint will be dull etc ... but it doesn't really matter on this car. It would be nice to make it a uniform sort finish, with minimal outlay.

Thank you.

[gi daddy]

some of the clear coat has delaminated its self from the base.Some of the clear coat will have keyed here and there ,you could try duck tape to pull of the rest ,or a power
washer.

[domster]

You wet sand it off with P1500, P2000 grit wet sanding paper and then refine down through P3000 or P4000 and then machine polish up. However, unlaquered paint is quite dull anyway and often thinner than the clearcoat layer.

TBH, you're wasting your time, as to do it so it looks OK will take days or even weeks. Just get the panels resprayed by a cheap bodyshop if you don't care. They may do a rubbish job but it'll be 1000x better than trying to wet sand the clearcoat off and then live with the colour base.