Anyone know what kind of paint Toyota/Lexus use?

LikeaRock

LikeaRock

...Dreaming on an E92....
Recently I've seen two brand new Lexus' that looked WET! Being brand new I assume they didn't have any wax on them but the clarity/depth of the paint blew me away.
The first one was a black GS300 that I was next to at a stop light downtown. The right side of the car was flawless, it looked like a mirror! The body lines (what body line(s) it had) didn't interfere with the reflection at all, just deep and wet. Coulda' used some wax I assume, or a different type, didn't have quite the reflectiveness (???) I like.
The second car was an 07 Silver ES330 I saw on the freeway, even in direct light the paint looked WET!
I wonder if they used a different color in the basecoat before they laid down the silver???

Anyway, just had to ask the question, I'm bored :)

Dolan
 
I saw a new black GS300 this past weekend upclose and was wondering who did the detail job b/c that paint was glowing like no other.
 
Funny you guys say that because I just did a black GS300 last Friday. It was older and had quite a few chips(more than it probably should have had), but the paint really looked sweet. I thought maybe I was just trying to fool myself into thinking it looked better than it really was after working 5 hours in the direct sun with temps at 100degrees, but I guess not.
 
I know I'm not answering the question, but I was under the impression that Lexus and Toyota black was single stage paint. Could it make that much of a difference?
 
ben54 said:
I know I'm not answering the question, but I was under the impression that Lexus and Toyota black was single stage paint. Could it make that much of a difference?
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I have done quite a bit of research on this topic. Some Lexus blacks are single stage, however, not all Lexus blacks are single stage. Toyota (the Toyota brand) does NOT use a single stage paint on any of the vehicles. (All this is according to some Toyota employees who are pretty high on the totem pole.)
 
Yeah, single stage leaves a lot of dead paint on your pad, but I really like working with it too, I think via rotary single stage is easier to work with vs. a basecoat/clearcoat paintjob, imperfections are much easier to remove and you can get some amazing depth if it's a nice paint job. I can understand why Toyota would want to use SS on their cars but it still suprises me why any car manufacturer would use SS paint. I'm going to do some more research on this topic, it's got my attention now
 
LikeaRock said:
Yeah, single stage leaves a lot of dead paint on your pad, but I really like working with it too, I think via rotary single stage is easier to work with vs. a basecoat/clearcoat paintjob, imperfections are much easier to remove and you can get some amazing depth if it's a nice paint job. I can understand why Toyota would want to use SS on their cars but it still suprises me why any car manufacturer would use SS paint. I'm going to do some more research on this topic, it's got my attention now
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I competely agree with you. When I'm cutting, I really feel like I'm getting something done. It seems to go faster too, but that might just be in my head.
 
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