I took my car (06 6MT coupe, laser red) to the track last weekend. You have to put numbers on your car. I used contact paper for my numbers (as many track folks recommended). Before I put them on I stuck some on the front bumper, left it on for a few days and then peeled it off without a problem.

Well, at the end of the weekend at the track I told my wife and daughter to peel the numbers off while I packed up our truck. Well, my wife carefully pulled the numbers off the right door and my daughter less carefully pulled them off the driver's side door and in several places they had a light haze of red paint stuck to them. Now there are two palm sized patches on the door that look like the clear coat pulled off. There is a rim of flaking clear film around them which I'm assuming is the edge of the clear coat.

The Infiniti service record indicates that this door had been repainted at some point.....and you can tell in the right light that door color is slightly off color.

This is not a show car by any stretch and it has plenty of dings and road rash that I don't care about. My concern is that the clear coat is going to continue to flake and peel. Right now the paint underneath looks okay but it might start to deteriorate without the clear coat over it.

I'm wondering if there is anything simple I can do about this without spending money to get the whole door repainted.

(I'm hoping to track the car a lot more so maybe I just need to put a number panel on there permanently It would be sooooo cool to drive around town with racing numbers on a G35 (sarcasm).

 

depending on the paint, you can maybe take your car to a shop and just have it re-cleared.

 

It sounds like you are SOL and have to at minimum have someone reclear it.