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If you walk up and inspect a vehicle how do you know if it is single stage paint or if it is base coat/ clear coat?
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Hey,
Take some cleaner polish on a cloth and apply it to the paint. If it pulls color from the paint, it is SS paint. If no color other than the product is visible, it is BC/CC paint. Otherwise, it is difficult to tell.
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If you're not gonna be touching it (e.g., shows where one type of paint or the other is "correct" for judging) you can often tell by how it looks with regard to depth and reflection. Hard to describe, but when you've seen enough ss and b/c paintjobs you get to where you can often tell the difference. Not always though, some colors make it pretty impossible to tell.Practical PerfectionistComment
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True, on some metallics, a trained eye could spot SS paint. But on solid colors, that would be tough.Originally posted by Accumulator
If you're not gonna be touching it (e.g., shows where one type of paint or the other is "correct" for judging) you can often tell by how it looks with regard to depth and reflection. Hard to describe, but when you've seen enough ss and b/c paintjobs you get to where you can often tell the difference. Not always though, some colors make it pretty impossible to tell.
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Yeah, I've had a lot of ss metallics over the years (and currently have two). Some of them have a multi-layered effect where the base color settles to bottom, metallic flakes settle on top of that, clear is on top like cream (can't do much correction on these or they'll fail). Those are like b/c with thin clearcoats.
Some solid types of black and green lacquer have a truly unique look that I can spot right away and I just *love* but that's probably from looking at/working on old Cadillacs and Jaguars
While b/c is best for most people, I still have a fondness for well-maintained, high-quality ss. Seeing an old Jag with b/c paint just rubs me the wrong way (which leads to some, uhm, interesting discussions at Jaguar Club of Ohio meetings
).
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