Laquer peel

[RPE11Y]

I have a small isolated bit of laquer peel on my TVR.

Its only about the size of a 10p piece and has been there since I got the car about a year ago - but it has never got any worse at all.

It hasn't really bothered me that much, but if it's a fairly cheap fix I'll just do it as the rest of the paint is good.

Its not any kind of fancy paint - any recommendations?

[RPE11Y]

Surely SOMEONE must have some advice???

[morebeanz]

I had some clearcoat damage from my Le Mans stickers a couple of years ago. Like you, I never had any further issues with damage to the fibreglass or paint surrounding, so I never bothered to get it fixed until I decided to have a front end respray anyway.

To do a patch with clearcoat is not that expensive (blwoing in a panel), but unless it's noticeable (to you especially), I wouldn't bother until you have some other bodywork to be done.

[snuffle]

if you are just after stopping the peel going any further and not too worried about it being perfect then clear nail varnish is as good as anything else, IMO its better to do 2 or 3 coats as thinly as possible to avoid the edges reacting.

[budd]

The only sure way of dealing with peeling lacquer is painting the panel, I've bought a cheap Jag with exactly this problem, some minor and major (bootlid) lacquer lifting.
As it's only the lacquer that's the issue I was hoping to simply flat it back then re-lacquer the offending area, so I tried this and the original area where the lacquer 'was' is still visible, I've since tried a couple of variations on this theme with no success, the only thing that’s proved satisfactory is re-painting the whole panel.
This is my experience with a pearl red metallic base coat with 2K clear, if your dealing with a solid colour you may have more success, but if your not equipped to actually paint it yourself then another posters suggestion to try nail polish clear is perhaps your best option, using a very fine brush (not the one in the lid!!!) build up a few layers before wet sanding with P1600/2000 wet ‘n’ dry then buffing to a shine .