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Why are cars shiny??
Why doesn't anybody seem to produce a car paint with a matt finish?
Surely it would be much more practical ... my once gleaming solar red MG TF with conventional high gloss paintwork looks less than lovely after 4 years of minor surface abrasions from cleaning/cat scratches/stone chips. Perhaps a matt surface would "absorb" marks. Who cares if you can't see your reflection in the blasted car ?? Not me!!
Surely it would be much more practical ... my once gleaming solar red MG TF with conventional high gloss paintwork looks less than lovely after 4 years of minor surface abrasions from cleaning/cat scratches/stone chips. Perhaps a matt surface would "absorb" marks. Who cares if you can't see your reflection in the blasted car ?? Not me!!
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Cars are shiny to increase areodynamics and fuel efficiency ,and to make the rain fall off .todays paint is waterbased with laquer, when i first started painting cars they still had cellulose paint which was a pig to get a good shine then 2 pack paint was all the rage but very toxic.
Also people like shiny cars due to posing etc and a nice set of wheels makes the car cool.
As for matt paint its pigment seems to be alot stronger for some reason as my ex army landrover was matt green/black. even after going down thousands of miles of greenlanes it never seemd to be all that bad.
Paint on cars these days is very thin i agree all you get is 1 or 2 coats of primer, then your 2 coats of basecoat and then your laquer.
Alot of new cars like prototypes are in matt black and some look very sexy , as for matt cars being produced thats probably along way off,unless you do it yourself.
Also people like shiny cars due to posing etc and a nice set of wheels makes the car cool.
As for matt paint its pigment seems to be alot stronger for some reason as my ex army landrover was matt green/black. even after going down thousands of miles of greenlanes it never seemd to be all that bad.
Paint on cars these days is very thin i agree all you get is 1 or 2 coats of primer, then your 2 coats of basecoat and then your laquer.
Alot of new cars like prototypes are in matt black and some look very sexy , as for matt cars being produced thats probably along way off,unless you do it yourself.
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