quattro Digest, Vol 27, Issue 83

[Jonathan Monetti]

Interesting.  My 86 parts car has been sitting outside for, well...since I
had a good head of hair.  It's dulled, but no sign of clearcoat peeling,
flaking, discoloring.  Whatever they used must have been like the space
shuttle heat shield (and is probably illegal to spray with today). 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Lenahan [mailto:glenahan at fastmail.fm] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:06 PM
> To: audi at humanspeakers.com
> Cc: Jonathan Monetti; quattro at audifans.com; capnkidd at sbcglobal.net
> Subject: Re: quattro Digest, Vol 27, Issue 83
> 
> All my cars save one had clear.  Only the basic red 1984 was 
> flat painted.
> 
> Since it was repainted prior to my ownership - maybe that was 
> cleared too.
> 
> Grant
> On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Huw Powell wrote:
> 
> >
> >> On that subject, what year did Audi start using clearcoat?
> >
> > Or, when did they ever not?
> >
> > Going back to at least 1980 they used the 
> primer-color-clear set up, 
> > as far as I know.
> >
> > Not that there's much of it left on my '82 coupe.  On my 89 90Q, it 
> > only appears to be failing where the car was once reassembled after 
> > being squooshed.  Or vice versa, I suppose it depends on where the 
> > accident was.
> >
> > --
> > Huw Powell
> >
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