Do any car/truck companies still use single stage paint?

Clear Coat, Base Coat technology became available first in the 1980's. It's grown in popularity ever since. I think around the year 2000, about 90-95% of cars used this method of painting.



Some companies still use single stage, however. This is particularly true for solid colours like Black and Red where there are no metallic flakes.
 
I would imagine yes they do....toyota white cars on the other hand are mostly single stage IME.....just baffles me that there are still SS painted cars that come from a factory in 2008.....strange if you ask me....
 
'08 white Accord I washed and waxed a couple weeks ago was single stage. Someone at Honda needs a beating for that idiotic decision.
 
SpoiledMan said:
Honda Taffeta White is SS.



Careful on the Lexus/Toyota black as not *all* of it is SS.
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Are you saying that part of one car could be CC and the other SS? That could potentially scare some people... buffing along, all of a sudden "what the! there's black on my pad! omgosh I went through the clear!" :wow:
 
shine said:
Are you saying that part of one car could be CC and the other SS? That could potentially scare some people... buffing along, all of a sudden "what the! there's black on my pad! omgosh I went through the clear!" :wow:
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Saying "them" would have made it more clear but didn't sound right to me. Some of the cars are SS and some of them are BC. That more clear?:)
 
I have read you can use a product like Meg scratch x and white pad on a small area, if the pad gets the color of the car on it, it is SS. Please correct me if this is wrong
 
sal329 said:
I have read you can use a product like Meg scratch x and white pad on a small area, if the pad gets the color of the car on it, it is SS. Please correct me if this is wrong
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That's a good way to test. :xyxthumbs
 
Honda's fiji blue pearl may or may not be CC. While waxing last summer, the pad picked up a fair amount of blue off the front bumper. Though that's the only place on the car that I had that problem. It was all done by hand which puzzled me more.
 
SpoiledMan said:
Saying "them" would have made it more clear but didn't sound right to me. Some of the cars are SS and some of them are BC. That more clear?:)
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Gotcha. Just wanted to make sure that's what you meant.
 
HMan913 said:
Honda's fiji blue pearl may or may not be CC. While waxing last summer, the pad picked up a fair amount of blue off the front bumper. Though that's the only place on the car that I had that problem. It was all done by hand which puzzled me more.
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Probably a cheap repaint. I don't believe you can paint a car a pearl colour without using the base coat, pearl coat, clear coat system.
 
I think my John Deere Lawn Tractor is SS.



Not that anyone would apply multi-stages of Klasse and Collonite to a riding mower or anything...

(would that be a sickness? I'm just asking... for a friend.... really.)
 
langod said:
I think my John Deere Lawn Tractor is SS.



Not that anyone would apply multi-stages of Klasse and Collonite to a riding mower or anything...

(would that be a sickness? I'm just asking... for a friend.... really.)
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Lol I waxed the tractors at sears one day when it wasn't busy.
 
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