Re: Does Audi paint die?

[iviarty@juno.com]

I believe I have the absolute worst Audi paint around.  87.5 5KS. Silver.
My car has "freckles".  Hood, roof, and trunk.  Finally looking at a
paint job in the next three to four months.  No more embarassment for me
at Q-club meetings!!!  

-Marty 
1987 5000S 193.8k (needs makeover)
1988 5000S (still immobilized)


On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:21:39 -0400 "Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca> writes:
>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
>> HÖR Technologies Sport Hydro Cam, K&N Filter
>> Borbet Type T, Dunlop SP9000 Sport
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>

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