[s-cars] silver paint

[Dan Slagle]

Stefan:  Peter is right, you want to avoid the need to repaint your car.
Silver is one of the most difficult paints to match.  I do not recall
what year your car is, but there was a change in the color of silver
from '95 to 95.5.

Dan
95.5 S6

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Peter Schulz
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:01 AM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com; stefan13 at att.net
Subject: RE: [s-cars] silver paint

At 07:43 PM 9/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Message: 2
>From: stefan13 at att.net
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:27:09 +0000
>Subject: [s-cars] silver paint
>
>Calling all silver Audi owners.
>
>The silver Avant is starting to show the typical "cloudiness" in
portions of
>the paint.  Waxing will hide it somewhat for a few days, but at the
right
>angle, it still looks terrible.  I do not want to use any type of harsh
>polishing or rubbing compound unless the consensus is that the defect
lies in
>the surface of the clearcoat, not the color coat. Any BTDT.  Thanks in
>advance.
>
>Stefan Richter


Stefan:

Don't have an avant but do have a 1990 Coupe Quattro in Kristal Silber.
Same condition (prolly worse).
My departed 1986 early build 16V Scirocco in Flash Silver Metallic had
the same issue.

Clear coat is cloudy in areas, other areas it looks like someone took a
scotchbrite pad to the paint,
Other parts have deep scratches.  Paint looks "dry".

Car looks good for one day after cleaning and polishing with 3M hand
glaze, followed by Blitz wax.

Bottom line...the clear coat paint layer is failing.
Nothing that you do short of sanding the paint and re-clear coating will
solve the problem.

I'm looking for a shop that can do just that...color-sand the clear coat
and re-apply.
I want to maintain the factory silver paint and NOT go for a total
repaint.

HTH
-Peter


Peter Schulz
1990 CQ (awaiting S2 3b engine transplant)
1991 200 20v TQW indigo mica
1991 200 20v TQW titanium grey
Chelmsford, MA USA
peter at audifans.com