Car Cleaning/detailing

[domino_z]

ferrari have been offering metallic colours for decades now

you could buy a 348 in that silver/grey

you can even go back as far as the 412 or even daytona and buy them in silver

Edited September 15, 2010 by domino_z

[Kujotk]

That is why I said "except for Gregorio Silver" lol

And you can always get the odd special order, but they are pretty rare from the factory.

Anyway topic has be sufficiently covered (with a lot of overkill), would make topics easier if I explained my reasonings better from the start instead of bringing up points about "exotics" and "metalic paint" without explaining why I brought them up.

But I guess other people generally don't know as much about the topic as others do, and connections have to be explained instead of just being left to be infered and interpreted by the responders.

[domino_z]

That is why I said "except for Gregorio Silver" lol

here's a maroon 308

Edited September 15, 2010 by domino_z

[SS8_Gohan]

stupid forum deleting my post...

Ferrari has been CC from about 360 onwards afaik. MB started around mid 2003 (it was a system MB wanted developed) and the paint codes will have a C in it somewhere. What's the code for your 360 Kujotk? i don't know if the same naming convention carries across all manu's.

Please let us all know which spray shop you work at so we can avoid taking it to where ever you learnt the trade.

i don't work for any spray shop, and if i did, how the hell could you judge the level of my work from a thread that doesn't' show any work what-so-ever??

what a random comment mate, don't get all sooky pants because you've got your info mixed up.

pretty much the high end car companies will have materials supplied by PPG. ie...

Notice there are quite a few metallic options in there, standard. Just because most the fezza's getting around are solid colours doesn't mean you couldn't get one like that standard. You could get two types of blue, a silver, a grey, a black and i think a metallic red/wine if you wanted.

i'm not disagreeing for disagreements sakes, i'm just trying to set things straight. It seems in my opinion, and further backed up by Sam, that you've become a little confused about car paint. We're just trying to tell you how it actually is. And on that...

Lambo's are painted in Germany in the same line as Audi R8's Audi A7 ect... The everyday Audi's are painted literrally on a seperate line in a separate factory in Germany. They may have the same colour codes but they are not the same, a colour code is just for the colour, it has nothing to do with the clear coat that is applied afterwards (clear coat is what makes the car).

Lambo's are painted at the Sant'Agata factory in Italy

I would say it's a leap of faith to claim a "clear coat makes a car", You always need a good base colour (and whether it be multiple layers to get a certain effect) but if the clear is clear, it's clear. It's how it's presented that makes the difference. I guess we just have some differences of opinions on some things.

Exotics are special cars, no doubt, and most people would give their left nut for one but when it comes to paint, there isn't anything special other than the hand painted options offered (like the Lambo pearl colours) and the reality is that most high end cars are covered by PPG materials and that's basically it.

any clear will chip - it's nonsensical to compare clears from different manu's based on how many chips they've got?? that's what i mean, just random comments...

[domino_z]

^all good points

another thing to note, what makes a factory paint special is what happens AFTER it rolls out of the paint booth

Rolls Royce is one of the few manufacturers who painstakingly wet sand the clear coat to remove imperfections and orange peel

oh no......'orange peel', ive probably just queued another 4 pages in this thread

Edited September 15, 2010 by domino_z

[Kujotk]

all good, if my info is wrong (which i'm starting to think quite a bit of the specific details are), then I take back the bits that are wrong.

Yeah the paint is done in Italy (@ Mirandola not Santagata factory, but it's close enough lol) I was getting mixed up with the rolls royce frames that are made in Germany lol, don't ask me why I got them confused, probably from that stupid "Megafactories" show on the discover channel).

Either way i'm not letting down that FEzas paints swirl much easier than most other cars, that i'm 100% sure on as it is my own experience, not info relying from others.

No more orange peel from me Sam, i'm done, and I learnt a few things from the last few pages which I didn't expect to, so now I can pass on the right info

[SS8_Gohan]

you would have to be ULTRA dedicated to car maintenance if you wanted a complete flat finish,orange peel free finish - mucho time required to keep it looking mickey mouse

what colour is the fezza and benz mate?

[Kujotk]

if you are working on an older ferrari like my dad's F40,

Hang on, How did I miss this? Forget paint talk, throw up some pics Sam,

A few months ago there were 3 F40's in the country that I knew of, 2 of them have since been sold and gone to Europe.

A few months before that Austorient brought in 2, one came from the USA and the other from the UK. I think these were the ones that got sold to europe since.

Did your dad ever have a temporary rego on it? I saw one with the plates F40LM in Melbourne just after christmas.

[SS8_Gohan]

[domino_z]

^that one belong's to damien from FI's father - damien did an amazing detail on that, i saw the car in the flesh and the paint looked better than modern day factory ferrari's

my dad's used to belong to the owner of Bburago model cars, so it's a euro spec and has less than 1450km on it with original tyres etc

The US regs back in the 80s fk'd alot of cars, incl. the F40 with ugly bumper additions, and killed the engines with power robbing cats/exhaust bypass's - so the euro spec (of any classic with a bull or prancing horse) is what you want

Edited September 15, 2010 by domino_z

[Kujotk]

Nice, very nice. Was the car on and moving or is that just where the dials sit?

[domino_z]

car would have been off