Hi all,

Water has got under the thin clear plastic on my silver spoiler, probably from a jet wash. There are pools of it and even with trying to squeeze it out on a dry day I cant see a way of resealing it.

Anyone had the same problem?

Yep. Very common problem. Repaint or wrapping is the only solution. Getting mine wrapped soon...

Yup most are gone or starting to go

Started to go on mine. Got it repainted in situ for around the hundred pound mark. It's quite a common problem tbh. HTH

mine went while the car was in warrenty and they refused to repair it as they claimed the damage was outside to inside - thus not part of the paint cover warrenty.

I've a red Fabia VRS and all mine has done is faded. Annoying as its the only part of the car which has faded!

Happened to my 07 from about March last year onwards.

first it looked like little pools of cloudy paint, then bubles as the lacquer lifted

then it started to go brittle and peeled off

got it resprayed just before trading in earlier this year

Yep I've got it too think its happened since the snow earlier in the year

Wonder how noticeable it will be in silver.....?

Hi all. Has just started happening to my 08 reg. is what's peeling off a lacquer coat or some sort of plastic covering. Has anyone had theirs wrapped and if so any pics

It started happening to my 54 plate about 3 or 4years ago,

I personally put it down to the unexpectedly deep (for England)

snow we had that winter, I think it was damaged in the same way

that ice/frost can damage the face of a brick blasting it clean off.

I think it happened kind of like this with the spoilers.

Small amounts of water got between the lacquer and the paint (via

tiny laquer surface perforations on cars that were by now about 5-6

years old)  that same water 'grew' when frozen making the perforation

bigger, so then more water could get in. Each frost thaw cycle getting

progressively worse.

 

That and the thaw rates between the metal and plasic sections would have

been different too, I think the plastic spoiler is less thermally stable than the

metal panels in terms of heating and cooling, that it's what caused the weakness

in the first place.   My next door neighbour has a red Mitsubishi MTO v6,

all the rest of the paint is vibrant and bold looking but the spoiler is starting

to go pink and matte looking. And Ive seen this difference on lots

of cars with plastic bits. This is just how it manifests itself on the Fabia.

Theres no way of knowing but I'd bet a penny to a pound the black cars started

to suffer first due to the heat absorbsion rate of dark coloured paintwork,

All the other vRS Fabs are relatively pale in comparison.

Also, I think partially it's also a metal and plastic thing

myself. Two different substrates with different physical thermal qualities

but treated with the external same coating. Somethings got to give so

the weakest/thinnest element (ie the lacquer does.)   

 

It wouldn't happen if the stamped tailgate panel had the spoiler as part of  

it's moulded stamped shape as opposed to an added stick on part.

It wouldn't be that much harder for the manufacturers to just put a different

tailgate on the performance variants, but there would have to be more than  

one type of tailgate stamping machine so perhaps thats why they don't??.  

Hi all. Has just started happening to my 08 reg. is what's peeling off a lacquer coat or some sort of plastic covering. Has anyone had theirs wrapped and if so any pics

Edited 30 August, 201312 yr by bogstandard

That's very neat. Might look a bit out of place on my all silver model