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Old 03-22-2005, 09:52 AM
craiglieberman craiglieberman is offline
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Originally Posted by nickhager_99
How many coats of clearcoat did you do or does it even matter.... i am having a friend paint it and i need to buy the paint and what not for him.
In California, we used water based paints due to EPA/CARB regs. Putting more clear on it doesn't help...in fact, it makes the paint more chip prone.

If I had to do it over again, all my cars would be painted in Az, where you can still use solvent based paints ( I believe that's what they're called).
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