Paint (?) peeling from near door mirror mounting

[sorcerer]

As you can see from the attached picture the paint (is it paint or something else?) around the door mirror mounting seems to be flaking off and at a hell of a rate of knots too!

My wife (who almost always uses the passenger side) noticed a tiny bit missing two days ago, even smaller than her little fingernail but it's now grown a hell of a lot bigger. Any ideas as to how I should tackle this?

[lurch]

Must of been repainted at some point for that to come off , never seen one do that before unless had paintwork done. Only way would be to remove it and get it painted again I would of thought.

[sorcerer]

Ok, cheers Phil, thanks.

[lurch]

You can get someone out mate that will do smart repairs and would cost a very small amount. I have a chap I use for things like that little scratches etc less than £100 for something like that. 

Hope this is of some help if not another idea would be get 2nd hand one from a breaker ?

[rayaans]

Yep thats really odd, never seen that happen before on any car.

 Seems extremely quick to peel off like that unless someones picking at it!

[sorcerer]

Thanks again for that Phil, I'll have a look at a Smart repairer for the job.

Rayann, you just gave me the lightbulb moment - and it's one of those 'DOH!!' moments where you end up kicking yourself 

I was out visiting a client and ended up having 'one of those days' where a job that I expected to take an hour ended up taking three. On top of that, when I finished the job and left, I got outside to find my car covered in stuck-on cherry blossom and also a lot of bird poo because the only place I could park when I arrived was under a tree.

On the way home I called into a car wash place where they do it by hand and completely forgot about the flaking paint! The pressure washer jet must have caused the majority of the damage 

[rayaans]

5 hours ago, sorcerer said:

Thanks again for that Phil, I'll have a look at a Smart repairer for the job.

Rayann, you just gave me the lightbulb moment - and it's one of those 'DOH!!' moments where you end up kicking yourself 

I was out visiting a client and ended up having 'one of those days' where a job that I expected to take an hour ended up taking three. On top of that, when I finished the job and left, I got outside to find my car covered in stuck-on cherry blossom and also a lot of bird poo because the only place I could park when I arrived was under a tree.

On the way home I called into a car wash place where they do it by hand and completely forgot about the flaking paint! The pressure washer jet must have caused the majority of the damage 

Aha, I guess that's where it came from then!

Yes, Ive had first hand experience of that. Used a pressure washer on the wife's Merc which had a deep scratch on it about 5 years ago and it made it even bigger! 

Obviously I parked it with that side against the wall for the next few days until I got it sorted