The hardest paint I've worrked on was an Aston Martin Rapide. A Flex with a purple foamed wool pad and D300 made it look perfect. Still went another step though. BMW has pretty hard paint too. One way you can usually tell if a car has hard paint by seeing if the front area has lots of rock chips. Hard paint tends to chip where as soft paint may just pit or nothing at all.
99' Pontiac Trans Am WS9, 402ci/6spd/custom Viper blue paint
04 Mitsubishi Galant GTS - Torched Steel Blue
Wow, I was thinking about this the other day. I have a client scheduled for a correction. A new Suzuki Kizashi. I never corrected Suzuki paint and have not found any discussion about the hardness of their paint. I was thinking that having a chart of manufactures, years, and general paint hardness would be wonderful. We would have to compile a list from our experiences working with these paints to come to a general conclusion before making the chart. I would be willing to make the chart based upon AGO forum members comments.
Too many variables and paint technology is continually changing...
Everyone should be doing a "Test Spot" anytime they're working on a car they've never worked on before and following the philosophy of using the least aggressive product to get the job done.
It takes experience to be able to test paint and know if it's hard or soft and you can only get that by buffing out a lot of cars.
I have a very good thread on this in the "Hot Topics" forum on MOL, here's the link,
One way you can usually tell if a car has hard paint by seeing if the front area has lots of rock chips. Hard paint tends to chip where as soft paint may just pit or nothing at all.
******* This sounds like a great tip. BMWs are notorious for rock chips. Makes sense.
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