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Originally Posted by SpyderDan
They were showing all 5 of the 10 Series Scions, which are all painted Ignition Silver, but 4 of those models (tC, xB, xD, and iQ) are built at Toyota plants (in Japan), while the FR-S is built at the Subaru plant (also in Japan). Subaru's paint process is different, resulting in much thinner paint, and the difference was quite noticeable seeing them all side by side.
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Interesting and potentially troubling if "thin" Subaru paint isn't as durable as Toyota paint. What's different about the Subaru process, just the thickness or something else compared to the Toyota primer/base/color/(pearl, mica, metallic opt.)/clearcoat process?
I'll have to read up in the detailing forum about polishes and waxes best for Subaru paint. I've always used carnauba/water based Griot's products with a random orbital buffer on my Toyota/Lexus cars, but maybe a polymer product works better for "thin" paint.