Cars Paint Hardness

[cardaddy]

Somewhere around here is a link to a spreadsheet/dropbox that was put out there that everyone was open to post to, update to it. I thought I had it marked in my IE list, but just looked and can't find it.

Perhaps the OP will see this thread and link back to it.

[pikiki]

Mazda`s in general are very soft paints, very careful on this cars which I encounter a few with a minimum CC to level to corrected some swirl marks and tree zap that barely eat the CC on the roof and hood.

I own a Honda SI 2013 and def not soft paint, I worked the paint once and was fairly I said on a medium to soft range but no so soft.

Challenger 2010-12 are medium at least on their black paints.

MBZ are the hardest I ever worked and I work on MBZ every week almost everyday.

[cardaddy]

RE; Mazda hardness

I've done the mica black metallic several times and found it to be reasonably medium hard. Corrects easy enough 101 and 205 but both of those cut pretty hard.

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[Meticulous-Detail]

Somewhere around here is a link to a spreadsheet/dropbox that was put out there that everyone was open to post to, update to it. I thought I had it marked in my IE list, but just looked and can't find it.

Perhaps the OP will see this thread and link back to it.

Here ya go

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...QVnowWFE#gid=0

[andrewbmw]

I got to disagree with this, like a few people are saying depending on the year, model and paint all from the same make can be drastically different! I work on a lot of Porsche's and it has very varying degrees, especially 1950's paint to modern 911's paint, very different. Its hard to list cars by make and put them into categories via paint. Its all experience. Especially those cermi paints that a few companies are doing now. I can't remember the exact name for them, very hard thin top layer of clear followed by soft clear and paint.

[Meticulous-Detail]

I got to disagree with this, like a few people are saying depending on the year, model and paint all from the same make can be drastically different! I work on a lot of Porsche's and it has very varying degrees, especially 1950's paint to modern 911's paint, very different. Its hard to list cars by make and put them into categories via paint. Its all experience. Especially those cermi paints that a few companies are doing now. I can't remember the exact name for them, very hard thin top layer of clear followed by soft clear and paint.

That is why there is a disclaimer of that spread sheet *This sheet is a general guide for a point of reference and paint systems can vary from make, model and year from the same manufacture and sometimes from panel to panel. This should not serve as replacement for a "test spot".*