Factor Paint
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2002
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From: South San Francisco CA
Re: Factor Paint (Eds82)
What they used in '82 probably won't have any bearing on what they will use today. Paint keeps changing due to the wonderful EPA. It now costs around 400 dollars per gallon, instead of 35 and you also have to buy all the support additives necessary to apply the new paint job. You will flip when you find out just how much the material cost is for a new paint job. If it is still legal to use acrylic enamel in your state ....go for immediately because if you delay....you will pay the price. Here in California things change so quickly that stuff that was purchased six months ago is now obsolete. I just paid $50 for a pint of red paint to retouch my wife's Honda Civic. Ain't life great?
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 97
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From: Plantation FL
Re: Factor Paint (Eds82)
Good question. Like was already said, the products change as the rules change. The stuff used now is better for the environment and worse for you..healthwise and costwise. Your car looks great. Maybe a good compound/polishing job would suffice and save you the pain of a
re-paint? If not, and the paint and body on your car is sound, you may be able to seal and paint over it. For example, you can scuff, seal with PPG DP and re-coat within the allowable window. If the paint is cracking, peeling, or blistering, you will need to strip it and start from scratch, so the nature of the factory paint wont matter.
re-paint? If not, and the paint and body on your car is sound, you may be able to seal and paint over it. For example, you can scuff, seal with PPG DP and re-coat within the allowable window. If the paint is cracking, peeling, or blistering, you will need to strip it and start from scratch, so the nature of the factory paint wont matter.
