Paint Problem

[cheffo]

Whilst washing my car today i noticed that a small area of paint was blistering at the bottom of my driver side door, has anyone had this problem before,and is it covered under warranty, the car is an 03 111s so not very old!

[monkeytaylor]

Are you sure it's blistering and not just a small imperfection in the paintwork? If definitely blistering let the dealer sort it - and don't take no for an answer if they say it's not covered by warrenty!

[tanman]

Hi, is it the lacquer thats come off? I had that problem with a CRX (bad respray by a panel beaters in Eastbourne). Looks like two different shades of colour. Still it should be under warranty so get them to sort it out

[Raja]

My old 52reg 111s did something similar within a few weeks.
The garage reckoned that i must have parked it near a building site and it was metal particles landing on my paintwork...yea i know, rubbish!!
They fixed it anyway, from what i can tell it wasn't too difficult, they probably hadn't sorted the laquer out properly in the first place. Take it back and let them sort it out.

[crford]

I had a rear clamshell replaced on my S2 at the beginning of the year, and the paintwork began to bubble after about 4 months. I took it back to Lotus, and they've resprayed it for nowt... didn't even discuss the question of warranty. Apparently there is a new paint formula that they began using at the beginning of this year that has been causing problems... ... ... Baffles me as to why nobody at Lotus thought it might be a good idea to check this out before they started painting it onto peoples' cars...

[arlo]

My S2 (Nov 03) has just been in the shop; paint was blistering just behind rear clam. Fixed under warranty.

[cheffo]

Ta very much everybody!!