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In Reply to: Water based paint posted by Jim on May 30, 2000 at 20:44:21:
: : My car got egged in a couple of places on the driver's side and after cleaning it off found that the clearcoat had been chipped off in a concentric circle pattern (impact of the shells). I can actually see the silver underneath where the clearcoat was taken off. Silver layer seems to be fine.
: : What should I do? Touch up myself with a bottle of clearcoat? Leave it? Bodyshop? Thanks very much in advance!
: I HATE this water based paint, look at it wrong and it will chip. I have a '96 Crown Victoria with 90k miles and the paint looks great. 40K for paint like this.
...environmental standards have required it for quite a while. Check all the early '90s Ford Tauruses (Tauri?) running around looking like someone sanded the hood down. My '95 Explorer looks great too, I think the difference is that the BMW paint is too thin.
A quick story: we toured the BMW Spartanburg plant during HC '98, Communications Director Walt Benhke (Ken Sparks now) gave us a 3 1/2 hour tour that included a walk through the paint shop while it was operating. Very impressive, and the people there answered a lot of questions. They said the paint is EXACTLY 27 mils thick. I asked "How did you come up with 27 mils? Is 26 mils too little, and 28 mils too much? I think you could use a little more myself, we get TONS of stone chips." The paint shop director just looked at me, I never did get an answer!
Tom M.
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