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Edition 30 won't shine. Help please!

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cossy:

--- Quote from: Gaz W on February 28, 2009, 10:54:55 pm ---Ed 30's look really cool in that colour, and it looks good, although can tell even from those distant pics you've got some serious orange peel going on there.

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Orange peel! you cheeky sod! Never seen any orange peel paint on this car, think it must be reflections.

Had car from new and its never had any paint.

Or are you joking? :wink:

WhiteGTI:
I think its just a characteristic of German paint at the moment. I know that BMW suffer heavily from it currently.....

illyun:

--- Quote from: WhiteGTI on March 01, 2009, 01:07:42 pm ---I think its just a characteristic of German paint at the moment. I know that BMW suffer heavily from it currently.....

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I think its due to the newer water based paints (instead of lead based) they have to use - EU regulations etc...  The paint tends to chip easier too  :sad:

JPC:
yep, the new water based paints are absolute sh*te. i hate them.

and yep....a LOT of new cars are coming through with TERRIBLE orange peel.

autoperfection.com:
Hi

Its not the water based paint thats the problem - its the laquer process. - The clear coat laquer is still solvent based!!

The problem is that they are using more hardner in the laquer than before to increase through-put, it dries much faster and hardner is cheaper than laquer hence the mix is cheaper. also takes less time to dry (all about cost) - the problem is the laquer dries much faster which leads to it not flowing correctly hence the orange peel seen on most new German cars. (unless they get detailed of Course :grin:

As for the car looks spot on :happy2:

JIM

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