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Paint stripped during number plate swap
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:50 pm
by beatty599
I have a specialist rubber piece for number plate sticker removal and it works fine on all cars, i know this as my friend is a mechanic uses it but it decided to strip bits off paint from my bumpers more than just in the image.
What do you think I should do?
Should I try and contact VW see if their warranty might cover it? or just take it as a loss and fill it in with bit of primer and cover it up with the number plate?
Re: Paint stripped during number plate swap
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:43 am
by alexperkins
I've seen this happen many many times
Prime it and give it a coat of colour to match. VW won't be interested. They'll say the adhesive tape used was too strong
Re: Paint stripped during number plate swap
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:00 am
by iichel
at least it won't rust since it's on plastic
Re: Paint stripped during number plate swap
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:56 am
by beatty599
iichel wrote:at least it won't rust since it's on plastic
Haha that's one upside i suppose
alexperkins wrote:I've seen this happen many many times.
Prime it and give it a coat of colour to match. VW won't be interested. They'll say the adhesive tape used was too strong
Thanks for the advise, it must be a thin coat on the bumpers for it to be stripped off so easily.