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- From: rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes)
- Subject: Re: Saturn Paint (Was: Re: Waxing New Car? (Saturn SL-1))
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:23:29 GMT
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- In article <24065@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
- >>I don't have an answer, but I *do* have an additional question for you
- >>to ponder: the saturn is a 'plastic' car, with body panels that are
- >>solid color (if someone 'keys' your car, they will gouge the fender but
- >>will not leave an ugly off-color line). Does Saturn actually paint the
- >>car?
- >[...]
- >
- >Yes. A rock took off a little 1"x1/8" vertical strip at the edge of
- >the front bumper panel near the left wheel on my SC. The plastic is
- >transluscent with a slightly white appearance. Since I have the
- >two-tone silver/dark silver paint job, it probably wouldn't be that
- >noticeable on the upper silver panels, but it's more noticeable on the
- >darker lower panels.
- >
- >Saturn does sells touch-up paint for those minor scratches. Saturn
- >also claims that the paint clings to the plastic 10 times better than
- >regular paint to steel, and that the Saturn paint is specially designed
- >to flex. From experience it seems to work well. Someone opened a door
- >into my car and left a small white paint "smudge." His paint just
- >wiped off when I washed the car leaving no visible damage. And of
- >course, no dings. :-)
- >
- >I don't think the paint will stand up to a keying, though.
- >
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >The crew faces deadly GURUs! Next time on AmigaDOS: The Next Generation.
- > +--------+ John Lee
- > | HUGHES |
- > +--------+ Internet: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com
- >The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.
-
- I can vouch that the paint will NOT stand up to "keying". Some
- jerk did that to my SC, for no obvious reason :-(. There were some
- long, hideous scratches left on my car, and underneath the scraped-
- off clearcoat+red basecoat+primer was the plastic panel.
-
- BTW, the plastic panels are really black/dark gray underneath. What
- you saw was the primer coat. OR, maybe Saturn uses different colors
- of plastic for different color cars (I doubt that, though).
-
- Tom
-