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Old 02-20-2013, 08:34 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by whaap View Post
I get a chuckle out of the "poor paint talk" on our cars. I'm approaching 7000 mile and I have yet to get a single blimish on the front of my car. My 02' Miata had 38000 miles when I traded it in and the front in looked like it had been thru a sand-blaster. (Perhaps a slight exageration!)
The original windshield in my '95 Miata looked worse than the paint did after 17 years and almost 100000 miles. OTOH, my '02 Nissan Sentra had rust spots forming ON THE ROOF after less than three years, and the clearcoat cracking and flaking after five. My FR-S already has a bird-dropping blemish on the hood from a dropping I removed within a few hours of it happening. I think it's more a matter of car manufacturers cutting corners these days to save a buck.
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