My brother visited me this morning and showed me a problem he is having with the paint on his Freelander roof for some reason Large chunks of paint are flaking away leaving it down to what looks like the primed metal. He has had his Freelander since new so there isn't any old repair to the roof.


The Image below isn't of his Freelander but will show you what is happening.

It need not be the original paint even if youve had the car from new?
Quite a few cars get damaged on the car transporter from low hanging trees enroute to the dealers and its the top front car that gets all the bashing.
I used to live near to a Leyland dealership back in the 80's and new cars would regularly arrive with dents and smashed windscreens on the top of the transporter, those cars would need repair before they were ready for sale, and I doubt the customers knew about it either?
So you cant necessarily say its a fault in the factory paint, unless they can test somehow?

2004?

If his bothered about it then have it resprayed, I doubt LR would be interested in a 10+ year old car paintwork  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

He wants to get the roof vinyl wrapped black but the roof will need to be prepped first guess who has to do it for him.

All wrapped up with a Union Jack?? MINI style?
They do a nice black and silver one.

My wife had a similar issue,

We had some small trees on the drive, so the cars ended up being S**T on most days, anyway I think it went about 3 weeks once without a wash, when it came to wash it off the paint came off directly underneath the Bird S**T as if is was neat paint stripper..

as it was only small (1"x1" i just used a black aerosol to cover before selling, just so it didnt rust.

that was a MY55 Fiat Punto, she now has a shiney TD4 GS and a freshly sprayed Defender 90...

..and I have a shot gun

I've just googled it and it seems its quite common.. tell your borther to clean his car more often  MY2011 Freelander 2 GS Santorini Black
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