Clearcoat on repainted car?

Phideaux

Phideaux

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I have a question about a car that has been repainted. This weekend, I am going to work on a car, and the owner said that she had to have the hood and roof repainted due to hailstone damage. It was an insurance job that she had done at the dealership where she bought it.

My questions are, when a body shop/dealership repaints a vehicle, is a clearcoat a standard that they also spray on? The is other is, knowing that what people are supposed to do and what they sometimes do are two different things, is there a way to tell for sure if thay did apply a clearcoat?

It is a black car that has average/moderate swirls and scratches, and I plan to use SSR2 on it with maybe PBPP after if it needs it. With this procedure, do I even need to worry if it has a CC or not?
 
Darn near all cars now adays are a base coat clearcoat paint. With out the clear the paint if flat and dull. Easy way to tell if its a base clear paint is take some fine polishing compund on a rag or applicator and test it on a small spot. If color comes off its a single stage paint if it does not its a base clear.
 
I think you will find that most body shops only do base-coat/clear-coat painting anymore.
Maaco might be the exception.
I have a couple of friends that have a body shop and they no longer even have the equipment they used to use for single stage painting.

Charles
 
Charles,

Actually there are still shops that do use a single stage paint but its not like the old laquers and acrylics from the past. Now they are urethanes and the durability is excellent as well as the gloss. Most people can not tell the difference between a base clear and the newer single stage paints.
 
I was told all shops are set up with clear coat . Not to say you cant get a single stage paint job but the shop set ups are for base coat clear coat.My lexus is single stage paint and when I called around this is what I was told. You can not tell the diff unless of course you neglect you car then the clear coat will be shinier.
 
A body shop person/dealer of any repute would stipulate that they were using a Urethane Enamel refinishing. It isn't that Urethane Enamel is worse, necessarily, but just different. And they certainly wouldn't paint a b/c car Urethane Enamel on two panels.
Lot's of hacks use single stage, though. If it clays well, and has lots of spider-web marks, you're most likely dealing with base/clear.
 
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