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Old 06-20-17, 10:14 PM
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Hi,

I took my car for an appraisal to a dealer and they told me that its paint is too thick on the hood (around 9 mils). Usually Lexuses have around 6-7 mils of paint so they thought it had been damaged. I took it to a body shop and asked them to measure the thickness. Turned out that the paint is consistently thick: 9-11 mils on all parts of the body. I am a second owner of the car so I don't know if that is specific to the model or the whole body was repainted to cover something up. Have you ever measured paint thickness on your Lexus RC F?
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What color is it currently? Might be curious if they pinged it with a spectrometer to see if it matches any current lexus paint, etc?

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It is white. They didn't bother using spectrometer at all
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Maybe the special paint with ultra White, molten pearl, red, blue has 5 stage paint and is thicker,?


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Hi,

I took my car for an appraisal to a dealer and they told me that its paint is too thick on the hood (around 9 mils). Usually Lexuses have around 6-7 mils of paint so they thought it had been damaged. I took it to a body shop and asked them to measure the thickness. Turned out that the paint is consistently thick: 9-11 mils on all parts of the body. I am a second owner of the car so I don't know if that is specific to the model or the whole body was repainted to cover something up. Have you ever measured paint thickness on your Lexus RC F?
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Lexus now uses a 5 layer paint process on the RC-F, tell the dealer his little paint tester is no good,when it comes to an RC-F
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