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Originally Posted by Poodles
Neat, wasn't aware of the issues moving away from VOC paints caused. I know it caused issues with paint adhesion, like on all those white trucks that the paint came off in sheets. I do know that the paint on my car is both too soft and too hard, chipping from rocks and very easily scratching if it's so much as breathed on. BMW and Mercedes I know have some really tough paint scratch resistance wise, don't know about chipping though.
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Actually the main reason why people would know is when local governments start adopting this. I knew about the regulations long ago because California already had banned VOC paints and switched to waterborne paints.
A lot of car guys complain about cars being painted in California because they've adopted similar standards to what major OEMs have agreed to, and it shows up as "inferior" paint if you talk to enough body shop guys. Many are simply because of inconsistent product deployment from the manufacturer, causing teething problems in the paint shops.
https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2012...-auto-industry
The longer this is in place, the better the paint quality will be.