I'm an idiot. How do I fix this?

[jonboyuk]

So it's January, it's snowing in the UK (for a change) and I got home one day to see about a foot of snow on my car. I thought I'd manually remove it from the roof with my window scraper, I honestly don't know what I was thinking because when it dried off the next day, this is what my roof looked like! EVERYWHERE!

Anyway, it seems like I haven't actually scraped any paint off - just the lacquer. The next photo shows this as some of the light red has peeled to reveal the actual paint work underneath

(I know, it needs a clean!) Anyway, what on earth can I do? I'm fearing the loss of £500+

[Iann-]

Perfect excuse/opportunity to get it wrapped in black, if that tickles your fancy ?

[jonboyuk]

Are you saying it needs a whole new paint job?

[DanHam]

That looks ******! Id say it will probably need painting & lacquer.

[jonboyuk]

Even though the actual paint is fine? Is there no way to repair lacquer?

[jaivixsophie]

Unfortunatly it would need flatting back slightly and a bit of red base coat putting on then a re- laquer. Probably cost 250-300 quid im affraid

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[whitelighter785]

It looks like the lacquer has come away from the top coat, many many reasons for this ( cheap lacquer, basecoat left too long before lacquer applied etc) but they all end up being bad for you. It's going to be either a repaint or wrap, depending on your requirements.

[DBP]

Lacquer has broken away in a few places so there is no fixing that with cleaning! Personally I would flat back the damage then wrap it!