I live in Binghamton NY. What is UV? Is this something in rain water? I
have heard of people talk of this on the web, but I don't think I have
every personally experienced it.
Don Malling
Michael D. Porter wrote:
> Paul Willoughby's Home wrote:
>
>> I can't help on the color issue. But last year, when I had my TR4
>> painted
>> Signal Red using the Ditzler code in the Moss catalog, my body shop said
>> that it was unavailable in two stage. But his supplier was still able to
>> get it for him (mix it for him?) in the old type of paint which is not
>> compatible with a clearcoat.
>>
>> I gave him the OK for the single stage type and it came out
>> beautiful. No
>> regrets.
>
>
> Here in the southwest, clear coat is seen as one of the biggest
> boondoggles ever invented by the auto industry. It produces a nice
> showroom quality sheen which sells cars, but it doesn't last. UV kills
> it, and rapidly. The shops here which have found a way to remove it are
> making lots of money.... Had I the choice (and I don't always), I'd
> stick with a good quality acrylic enamel and a good rubbing-out. A
> couple of coats of polyurethane with one shot of clear coat is very
> slick, but plastic-looking--it can never have the depth of five or six
> coats of enamel.
>
> That said, I'm kind of leery about shooting the GT6 with enamel--I don't
> like the thought of hand-rubbing all of those hood louvers....
>
> Cheers.
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