A lot of people have asked me how thick are clear coats their cars??? Won't cutting the clear coat back make it thinner and soon make the paint fade?
The answer to that is no it won't, most factory cars have between 1.5-2.0mm thickness of clear coat and by this thickness I would mean for Nissan, Toyota, Honda, VW, BMW etc. There are thicker factory clear coats between 2.0 - 4.0mm and are usually found in Ferrari, Lamborghini, or in short exotics.
Many of my photos posted up have gone through paint correction, whereby the clear coats have been cut back to make way for a new surface. It may seem to have taken a lot out of the clear coat but actual fact is, its only a fraction of it. In order to cut it down to the primer it requires much more effort from a Dual Action buffer as compared to a Rotary buffer. You could literally buff the clear coat 10-15 times before you would see the primer using a Dual Action buffer.
A cars surface can be broken down into 25% - 25% - 50% meaning, 25% primer, 25% paint and 50% clear coat. So it really is not as bad as many people think, but it is always good to have a Depth Gauge tool or a Thickness Gauge to measure how much clear coat you have to play with before you start.
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Friday 24 May 2013
Audi A4
This time round is an Audi A4, condition of it is not really that bad, it has the usual light swirl marks like most other cars do, lights scratches and minimal wax protection on the paint. Just needs a good clean and a nice coat of wax.
Before view:
Before view:
The usual 50/50 view of the bonnet, new clear coat vs old after paint correction
Some hours of paint correction later, with a nice coat of carnauba wax, the car looks like this:
Thanks for viewing, please leave comments or questions if you would like to find out more...more to come!!!
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