Re: Does Audi paint die?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Alexander;

    Audi had some clearcoat problems around '86 - '87. The clearcoat
appeared heavily scratched but was actually cracking down to the basecoat.
This happened to my Zermatt Silver '86 5ktq. The degradation progressed
until I could scrape the clearcoat off with my fingernails. (Un)fortunately,
the car was totalled before I had to repaint it. The horizontal surfaces
failed first and fastest, but the vertical surfaces were starting to go at
the end. I have heard of other Audis of the same vintage with this problem
and have also seen it on a '87 Oldsmobile.

Fred Munro
'91 200q  281k km (original paint in great shape)

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander van Gerbig <Audi_80@email.msn.com>
To: Quattro List <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 4:18 PM
Subject: Does Audi paint die?


>     After almost 12 years the paint is looking not happy, shiny, but
> scratched on the 80.  I have figured out what all the scratching was from,
> original owner had a tree over the car in the lot he parked at.  He used a
> brush to wipe off pollen and plant matter everday that the car needed it.
I
> had forgotten that when I got the car the bursh was in the trunk, not a
very
> kind brush.  When I got the car he had abviously had it washed and waxed
> professionally.
>     They are everywhere, even the roof is lined with straight scratches
> going back and forth.  After all the times I washed and waxed it has taken
> some 2 years for them to be really visible.  These scracthes aren't from
my
> washing becasue they aren't in swirl patterns, nor my waxing.  I can't
think
> of any other reason there would be straight scratches all over the top of
> the car, the trunk is destroyed, that I always knew.  The hood and fenders
> do not have scratches, because the car had an accident 6 years ago and the
> front end was replaced.  What else could be an explanation for scratches
> like this all over the car?  The scratches kind of look like cracking
> though, does Audi paint do this?
>     Local autobody man said $4500 for full paint!  EEK!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alexander van Gerbig
> '88 Audi 80 -- Koni Yellows, G&M Springs
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