Re: anyone know about quality problems with white paint at the factory?

[John Cunningham <johnc@together.net>]

i heard that they were discontinuing the pearl because it was very
expensive and it required some elaborate and environmentally damaging
chemical process...?  certainly they made tons of beautiful pearl cars
in the last dozen yrs, so didn't seem to be a quality issue before...

"Tetzloff, Jon" wrote:

> Hi, newbie here with a 99 A4AvantQ on order.  We heard that
> the car was scrapped at the factory for quality problems
> with the white paint.  The archive search feature is NA so
> I'm asking here if anyone knows any details about this.
> My dealer says Audi discontinued the pearl white color
> for similar reasons.
> thanks
> Jon

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