Clear Coat Harder Than SS Paints?

[Beemerboy]

Here is the question..you think that CC is easier to maintain than SS...over the years that I have detailed....I cut my teeth on SS paints....you know that ones that at the end of the detail you and everything around was the color of the car

Since clear coats became the industry standard, it changed your process, techniques and products than the ole school days...of SSP.

I have felt over the last several years that CC paints are much easier to maintain and correct than SSP...taking a layer of oxidized paint off a SS paint was not easy...you really had to make sure that you didn't burn threw....today its possible with CC but not as likely as SS....clears seem much more forgiving in some cases to correct...for that matter a PC can do wonders...

Back to the question...you think that CC is easier to maintain than SS

 

[CharlesW]

Here is the question..you think that CC is easier to maintain than SS...

Yes.

As to the title of your thread, "Clear Coat Harder Than SS Paints?", it varies a great deal. Some clears seem to be quite hard while others are quite soft.
Ketch says that some of the automobile manufacturers convinced the paint manufacturers to change the formulas which was supposed to increase resistance to water spotting and etching. Supposedly a side effect is softer clear and paint that is no better at resisting spotting or etching than the previous formulations. Ketch has quite a following and quite reputation, but I still have some reservations about a lot of his comments. Big words, name dropping, chemical terms and wordy explanations don't necessarily mean great knowledge.

 

[Beemerboy]

Yes.

As to the title of your thread, "Clear Coat Harder Than SS Paints?", it varies a great deal. Some clears seem to be quite hard while others are quite soft.
Ketch says that some of the automobile manufacturers convinced the paint manufacturers to change the formulas which was supposed to increase resistance to water spotting and etching. Supposedly a side effect is softer clear and paint that is no better at resisting spotting or etching than the previous formulations. Ketch has quite a following and quite reputation, but I still have some reservations about a lot of his comments. Big words, name dropping, chemical terms and wordy explanations don't necessarily mean great knowledge.

Charles

I think that I didn't really express what I was really trying to convey....the question is...is clear coated cars...harder to keep up to perfection than SSP car paint jobs....I wasn't talking about the hardness of the paint itself...sorry

 

[jaybs02]

I think that a lot of it has to do with the make up of the clear.

After I saw this I did a little surfing and it seems that clears can either be lacquer or acrylic, and I am sure that the hardness of each of those will differ from manufacturer to manufacturer.
So I guess to answer your question, it would depend on the formula that was approved by the car manufacturer.

"J"

 

[jaybs02]

Charles

I think that I didn't really express what I was really trying to convey....the question is...is clear coated cars...harder to keep up to perfection than SSP car paint jobs....I wasn't talking about the hardness of the paint itself...sorry

Ooopps, I had the same thought as Charles. :redface: