2000 4Runner white paint - Questions

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Peanuthead

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Two quick questions:



1 - thin or thick paint?



2 - clear or single stage?



I don't have the vehicle here to test so I thought I would ask.
 
I know for a fact that BLACK toyota paint does not have a clear coat...



but I believe the white paint has a clearcoat...



Honda's white paint does not have a clear coat....



Strange...
 
I wouldn't call it thick paint, but its not so thin you can see through it though :)



I believe its single stage paint. White Toyota paint if its the solid color and not metallic then its a single stage paint IIRC.
 
One of the Toyota Tundra forums I visit has the most convincing answer to the single stage question I've seen. If the paint code is 040, Toyota says single stage. The following info is a snippet of the thread over there, and the text is a cut and paste from an Email from Toyota.



Dear Mr. XXXXXXX:



Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.



We appreciate the opportunity to address your inquiry.



The Super White paint applied to your Tundra is a single stage paint coating. Vehicles painted with non-metallic colors have no clear coat finish. Paint colors that are available in a metallic or pearl will have a clear coat finish.



We hope this information has been helpful.



If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact us Toyota Help.



Sincerely,



Ivette Moreno

Toyota Customer Experience



I guess you can take from it what you want, but apparently all non-metallic Toyota paints are some form of single stage paint (i.e. no clear coat).



Personally having had lots of Toyota vehicles over the years, I have never had a pad turn color on any of the non-metallics I have had. (Red, black, white and hunter green). I don't know everything about paint, but I wonder what sort of single stage / no clearcoat paint you can polish without getting paint transfer.
 
And one more opinion -



The paint on US made Toyotas is super thin. My Tundra will get a chip very easily. The Japanese assmbled/manufactured vehicles appear to have not only a thicker paint in my opinion, but the overall build quality and fit/finish is leaps and bounds ahead of their US made counterparts.
 
Above is pretty much everything I have found too. I'll try using a cleaner or test a section with poliseal to see the reaction I get from the paint.
 
This is a possible solution recommended to me using my UDM. I though about using the soon to be Makita but... Thoughts?



Step 1: M105 - tangerine hydotech pads in 5.5"

Step 2: M205 - green pad in 5.5" to finish things down



This is all being done on speed 6. Otherwise I think I might just buy M105, M205 and UNO with some hydrotech pads to test things out and call it a day.
 
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