Buying a PGM

Some meters won't read painted plastic and fibergass surfaces. Make sure you read a metal painted surface. They should read 4 to 6 mils ...
 
GS4_Fiend said:
Ok. So I re-calibrated it again. Took the readings again. The hood is still registering 1.5 Mils. I think I'm going to have clear coat failure soon. This is bad. As for the bumper at the first reading it registers 31 Mils. So I took a few more readings on the bumper again but different places, it registers "0". So it is plastic after all. Now this is making me confused. Is my meter bad? How could it get a reading from plastic at one time and not the other? Bizzare.
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I honestly have no clue. What car/year is it? 1.5mils doesn't mean you'll have cc failure soon, it means you have no clear, or primer haha. I have yet to see a reading below 1.8-1.9 mils for primer/base on a car, so 1.5 is ridiculously thin paint if it is reading correctly.



Why don't you go check every panel and check multiple surfaces on every panel then average them out.
 
2003 Lexus GS430. Well, I did calibrated it. I mean how hard is it to calibrate the meter? It's just simply press and hold the "+" until it flashes and use the button for calibration. And that's what I did. Unless the meter I got is no good. It can even read plastic when it is not suppose to. I'm sure my car still got some clear left, pretty obvious visually.
 
I found the problem. I put it back to factory restored and the meter is back to normal. My hood reads 4.5 Mils. I totally eased out now. Thanks for the help. As for the door jambs the reading is 3 Mils. That shows that they didnt put clear coat on them I suppose.
 
GS4_Fiend said:
I found the problem. I put it back to factory restored and the meter is back to normal. My hood reads 4.5 Mils. I totally eased out now. Thanks for the help. As for the door jambs the reading is 3 Mils. That shows that they didnt put clear coat on them I suppose.
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Yea they usually don't, meaning you have about 1.5 mils clear coat on the rest of the car. Glad you figured it out man because those numbers were way out of line haha
 
HaHa. Yea, thanks for your help Ivan. :)



Alowe - What I did was put the meter back to factory setting because it's already calibrated by the factory already so it doesn't need to be re-calibrated.
 
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