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PeelClear

A color change you can take back off. It sprays on in the booth like paint, and when you want the factory color again it peels away by hand in sheets.

What it is

Paint that comes off in one piece.

PeelClear is a waterborne peelable coating made for vehicles. It goes on through a spray gun, so it lays down like a finish rather than sitting on the panel like a film. There is nothing to cut, nothing to template, and no adhesive anywhere in it.

Taking it off is the part people do not believe until they watch it. The edge is scored, and then it lifts away by hand in large sheets with your original paint underneath exactly as it was. No chemicals, no heat gun, no abrasives, and no residue to polish out afterwards.

  • Sprayed with standard HVLP equipment, in the booth that is already here
  • No cutting, no templating, no adhesive system
  • Peels off by hand, leaving the factory paint untouched
  • Empire is one of a handful of certified applicators in New York
Panels masked up on a stand in the booth at Empire before spraying

Why not a wrap

It is sprayed, so it behaves like paint.

Vinyl is a sheet of material laid onto a car by hand. That is where its problems come from, and none of them apply to something that arrives through a gun.

01

No seams, no lifting edges

Wrap has to be cut, tucked and overlapped, and the edges are what let go first, usually at a door handle or a mirror. Sprayed color has no edge to lift.

02

A finish, not a texture

Vinyl carries its own surface with it. PeelClear is sprayed and flows out, so the reflection you get is the one the panel gives you.

03

Any color, not a catalog

You are not limited to what a vinyl company decided to print this year. It is mixed, so if it can be matched it can be sprayed.

Color

267 of them, before anything custom.

The standard range runs to 165 RAL matched solids, 85 pearl and iridescent colors, and 17 multi tone shifting colors. On top of that an OEM color can be matched, which is where most color changes actually start.

165 RAL matched solids 85 pearl and iridescent 17 multi tone shifting Custom OEM matching

Worth knowing if you lease, or if the car is going back to standard before it is sold. The color underneath never gets touched, so what you hand back is the paint that came on it.

A finished panel under the shop lights at Empire

How much of the car

Three levels of coverage.

How far the color goes is your call, and it is mostly a question of how much of the car comes apart first. Ring the shop for a number on your vehicle.

Front end

Hood, fenders, bumper and mirrors. The panels that take the stone chips, so this is the one people choose when the point is protecting the paint rather than changing the color.

Full exterior

The whole outside of the car, sprayed without pulling it apart. A complete color change from ten feet away and from two feet away.

Full exterior, disassembled

The car comes apart so the door jambs and the trunk jamb get sprayed as well. Open a door and the color carries on, which is the difference between a color change and a convincing one.

The warranty

Twenty years, and it covers the peel.

PeelClear carries a 20 year peelability warranty. It covers yellowing, peeling, cracking, fading and adhesion failure, which is to say it covers both halves of the promise: that it stays looking right while it is on the car, and that it still comes off cleanly when you want it off.

It is engineered for years of normal driving, not for a show season. Wash it, park it outside, and drive it through a Syracuse winter.

A body line reflecting cleanly under a work light

The certified finishes

Three of them, all sprayed here.

PeelClear joins the two Empire already holds. Between them they cover a finish that lights up, a finish that mirrors, and a finish that comes back off, and all three go on in the same booth by the same hands.

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