I tend to agree—the Indy I mentioned does excellent work and my friends and family have used them our whole lives.

I should have an estimate tomorrow or Tues.

 

Since we're talking paint, generally what's the current acceptable cure time until you can put more serious protection (say, a serious coating) on top of it? The only thing in my mind is 3 months but that's from a long time ago and I have no clue if it's a "safe" suggestion (i.e. worse case offgassing scenario) or a middle-of-the-road for not too serious sealants.

 

For a new car, its anytime. For a repaint its 30 days

 

Yup, I should've clarified that I'm asking about resprays. So generally 30 days should be fine even for a coating, assuming adequate semi-modern (obviously 2k) clear (or single stage ^^)?

 

Yeah I was told 30 days by my shop before I could replace the ceramic coating or do any PPF.

 

There's one BIG exception to that rule. For matte/low-gloss finishes, some manufacturers recommend no cleaner/waxes or anything with even clearcoat-safe abrasives in it. Also, hand-washings only.....no brushes or extreme high-pressure water-flushes.

That's why those finishes can be a PITA. They are currently a widespread fad, but a lot of people who get them don't realize what their requirements are.

 

Most of the ones that I've seen were vinyl, so at least it's easy to go back to gloss. I really don't want to know how involved it is to make a good partial non-glossy respray.

 

Had some friends over this weekend and one of them showed up in a new Tundra. I had been a bit on the fence, but damn, I really liked it. Finally got some seat time in it, to mess around with the controls/screens/settings, etc. I REALLY want one now. Must. Fight. The. Urge.

 

Thats a different issue than cure time, but yeah you can’t polish them at all, can only use modern coatings and spray sealants etc on them.

Basically impossible to touch up or repair.

I give it 2 months lol

 

Hard to give up the V8. I think the outgoing model is more attractive. Nice pic BTW

 

Ha! I hope not! I think the only way I'll do it is if I part with the GS, which I've been considering for some time now. I've give myself until September to decide on the GS.

I still love the looks of mine, for sure, but the interior on the new one was worlds better in my opinion. More power too. I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did.

 

The Tundras are easily the best looking out of them all IMO so I totally get the curb appeal. The problem is it doesn't seem to have the build quality of your last gen.

In other news I can't get my truck in to the best place til the beginning of August, ugh but oh well.

I refuse to drive it wrecked like that (spouse doesn't care to lol), so I guess it's Ole Faithful (430) for the next few months.

 

I feel that those issues have largely subsided. I spent quite a bit of time examining his truck closely and could not find one piece of trim misaligned, no rattles in it, everything was top notch (unlike some of the 2022s I saw). The first year models had some well known issues, but at least with this particular example, I would not say the build quality is less than my truck at all.

 

Did you drive the hybrid or regular?

 

I dug up a pic of my 1GS when all mods and paint were complete. This was a few years before I sold it.


1994 Lexus GS300, Veilside kit, INDiviD wheels, Indigo Ink Pearl.