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11th June 2007, 11:46 | #1 |
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Delicate Paintwork
I have noticed that the paintwork on my car marks very easily.
I ran over a twig last week, it kicked up and put a 3 inch scratch right down to the undercoat on the passenger door. Just yesterday whilst loading the boot I dropped a 4 foot length of 2"x 2" onto the bumper and it took a chip out of the paint again right down to the undercoat. The wood slipped out of my hand and in reality only travelled 6 inches or so. My paintwork is obviously soft (been used to VW's lately, hard paint) Does anyone else suffer this problem? I am using Autoglym products with a final high gloss (Gold Label) finish, as I thought that might resist some scratches. How can I toughen up my paintwork ? Any ideas ? __________ mykl |
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11th June 2007, 12:39 | #3 |
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I think the paint was a big problem with the 75 / ZT.
My Tourer (in midnight blue) is in effect two-tone; one shade on the metal body, a slightly different shade on the plastic bumpers. Rover couldn't seem to get this right - most other makers have managed to do so. Also the paint coverage on the bonnet edges, under the wheelarches and in the door shuts and tailgate slam is very poor. As for scratching, then yes, this does happen all too easily. What infuriates me most is that manufacturers use light coloured undercoat on dark coloured cars so that if the paint gets scratched the light undercoat really shows up against the surrounding paint. There is no justifiable reason for using light undercoat other than it's easier, cheaper and quicker to use the same on all cars whether they are to be painted in a light colour or dark colour (whereas dark colour undercoat on a light coloured car obviously causes problems). I think that the paintwork and other fitting problems turned the 75 / ZT from an excellent car into just a good car. |
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My Cowley built Wedgewood Blue (metalic) still looks fantastic IMHO - even after 104k. Stone chips certainly (which I have touched up of course) but the undercoat seems to be a grey (zinc?) colour. For a time I also ran a Longbridge 75 Tourer in BRGreen (pearlescent) which chipped at just the sight of a gravel path and the white undercoat really showed. Also really hard to beat out polish circles and I found touching up a much harder task. Modern water based paints are naturally very soft anyway - but I suspect the proble is partly dependent on colour/type. (But in the past month my front windscreen has gathered two nasty stone chips right in my field of view!). Robert
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I found the lacquer coating to be a tad 'soft' on my facelift car but have not had anything go any deeper than that thus far. The Naomeric has definitely hardened things up and the early scratches have not been added to since using it.
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shame on you 4foot 2x2 its not a van. As for the paint only marks I have are on the plastics which does seem easy to mark. I dropped my key on the rear bumper which resulted in a chip.
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Would you prefer metric 4foot=1.2192m and 2"x 2"= 0.0504m x 0.0504m I'm sorry to hear that others are experiencing delicate paint. Looks like a design characteristic then....oh dear. _________ mykl |
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Sorry to hear that Mykl, I actually think the paintwork on my car is very good. I wonder if the colour has anything to do with it. I have a Royal Blue ZT, which is now 5 years old, and looking better than when I bought it (18 months old). My previous Audi A4 had dark blue matallic paint, and this was terribly scratched and dull no matter how often I polished it when it was 5 years old. Mys wife's Copperleaf Red 75 was quite resistant to chips, but needed regular polishing to keep it shiney, more so than my ZT, though the ZT was 'Supagaurd'ed by the first owner. Actually I think the paintwork on my ZT is better than the black on my wifes brand new Mercedes C-class Sports Coupe - which I feel is very orange-peely.
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I take the point........... why did I load all this wood in the back of my ZT. Ahh I remember SWIMBO garage tidy excercise....... __________ mykl |
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