glad i took my car out of winter storage

miekedmr

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That's not so amazing to me, then again i'm further north.
Snow is not really bad for paint. Salt is, and sun...
 

starscream5000

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Man, I hate snow, I'm looking forward to a mild winter hopefully. Shit, this week was the first week it's actually gotten cold around here ;). It was in the mid 70's here until thursday, then all of a sudden it dropped about 30 degrees in one day. Needless to say I feel like shit now...
 

ChadMKIII

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Jeff Lange said:
You should be afraid of what the sun is doing to your paint. Snow really doesn't do much damage to paint.
Oh, I know its probably harmless, but it just looks painful lol.
And true, the sun is not good friends w/ paint. I'm actualy surprised it's in such good shape as it is.

BTW, Jeff, slightly off topic, but since we have the resident expert in here, is it true our cars have no clear coat? A body work guy said my car had no clear coat at all on it, don't all cars have a factory clear coat? Just wondering.
/thread hijack

Back to snow......
 

Jeff Lange

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Most, if not all, of the Super Whites did not have clear coat. 91-92 black did not have clear coat. Some other colours didn't have clear either. On the other hand, 86-88 black did have clear, as did midnight blue.

Same thing goes on with the current Toyota paints.