NICK PERRY
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The “experts” narrowed it down to moisture being trapped in the base coat (which is a crock o crap to me) and told us to start adding hardners to our base coats until they confirm this is the issure. By using hardner in the basecoat is making silvers/golds difficult to spray as it thinkens up the product making it “mottle” and look like crap!! Right now, this is where we are standing on this issue. I personally think it was a bad batch of 666 which they dont want to admit. Once we striped the hood, it felt like the base coat was turning into a rubber, almost like there is a ton of flex additive in the paint. very wierd situation!
Jayson, Once we were done basing the truck, the air blowers sat on for 2+ hours before we cleared it. The Sikkens rep plus another guy from there lab were at my shop giving us recommendations and were in the paint booth while we re-sprayed the truck (for the 3rd time). The last time we re did the truck it was comletly stripped to bare metal, did everything right out of the book. We dryed the base for at least 2 hours with air dryers, PLUS baked it after the fact just to be sure all the moisture was out, Then I took a tack rag and rubbed the crap out of it just to make sure it was dry all over and our Rep said it was all good to go before we cleared it. The truck sat for 3 days before re-assembly.
I have been spraying Akzo Nobel products since 1997 and never encountered a problem like this. It is only in Silver colored vehicles I seen it happen on, 2 GM vehicles, a Hyundai code and a Mercedes. I was thinking it may be the 666 Binder, just because these toners are 50% at least with the binder.
Overall, Akzo has been good about it. They covered the cost of the re-dos and supplied a rental car for our customers while they tried to figure out our issue. The thing that scares me is it happened to 3 other shops in our area. We are crossing our fingers it may have been a bad batch.
Cheers, 50-65 cars a week eh, good stuff. We are almost there, but our shop is only 3000 square feet so there is only enough time in the day, haha
If you have your customer base already, the insurance companys will work for you instead of vise versa. It works for us, as long as you inform the customer on your gaurantees and it is thier choice on where they want to have their vehicle fixed you should have it in the bag. If you are a new shop starting out I would recommend DRP to gain a customer base. Then go from there!!
Wetsand your blend area back with a 1500 grit and blend into that area with your clear, take some reducer and mist your blend area to let it melt in then let dry and wetsand/buff out the area. It will last for a while, but down the road it will eventually peel and burn back. But its a quick/easy outta sight outta mind fix.