Bonnet Advice

[jjmartin349571]

Sounds like it wouldn't be worth it then, unless I can twist my mate's arm into spraying it otherwise she's just going to have to be sold with a peeling bonnet and be done with it

[FrontBackSide2Side]

is a second hand bonnet an option? or are they hard to get hold of now?

[Rocky]

How good of a finish are you after? Could try respraying it yourself with rattle cans.

I tried that myself on the door on my Almera and was pleasently suprised on how it came out.

[wurlycorner]

Is there no way of cutting back the lacquer and respraying it?

No. Everyone seems to think thats possible bit it isnt.
The lacquer has peeled and faded and water etc has already started to eat away at the paint. Once the paint layer is effect thats it.
Plus you can cut back lacquer and respray fresh lacquer on it. You will see all hell under it.

Go outside and make the bonnet really wet. Thats the finish you will get relacquered.

It has to be taken back and primed and painted.

Agreed.

The laquer peeled on my missus's V40 bonnet.
I had a paint sprayer working for me at the time (we were doing some basic cosmetic repairs to our trains) and got him to do a quick repair job in the car park just to stop it getting worse.

He picked off the loose laquer, rattle can sprayed over the patch, let it cure and mopped it back.

The laquer was great (smooth, shiny and level so you wouldn't know it had been touched up) but the paint was a different colour where it had been exposed so you could tell it had had a repair.
That was fine for me as I knew it would be like that (he'd told me before hand) and I was only looking to stop it spreading across the bonnet (which it did) but you sure as heck wouldn't want to mess about trying to touch up that bonnet on the Scirroco, it wouldn't achieve anything.

Respray or bonnet swap;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-Volkswag ... 2a236d86cd

[Vtecmec]

Wait until its a little warmer, flat it back and rattle can primer, colour and lacquer it.

Being a flat horizontal panel, the prep work is straight forward and you can blader the lacquer on without too much risk of it sagging.

Then once painted, give it a real good polish a few days later, job done.

Bet you could do it for about £25.