Honda paint is super week. My old Infiniti paint was great. The car was never garaged and parked by the beach in the salt air for a couple of years and still looked good 8 years later. My dads CLK430's paint is in a league of its own. I think MB bakes it on or something. Anyone know?

 

Dent Wizards charged me $100 to remove three little dents. Professional detailers charged about $35 to remove minor scratches around the car. It's getting expensive.

planning on trying zaino.

 

my subby paint was sooooooooooooooo bad but my silver stone is holding up well

 

It's the color black in general. I've owned 4 black cars, 2 black/silver Shelby Chargers, a black Trans Am, and a black GTI. All were impossible to take care of. I swear I will never buy another black car again!!! They look awesome when the are clean but man they are a pain to keep up on.

My GTI was the best out of all the other cars. Washed it just about every week and waxed it every other week. I used a paint cleaner, then a swirl remover, and then Zymol. Also I did it by hand, never let a buffer or auto car wash touch it. Thats the key. Even so it looked sweet for about 3 days...................then it was back to the wash bucket again!!!

 

My previous 01 Vette's soft paint was way worse. Lots o' Zaino kept it and my S looking good, tho'

 

Hmm... it's most likely user error. 4 years and there isn't so much as a swirl mark on the car and it has NEVER been polished. Of course it is my baby and only sees 100% cotton towels and the exterior is NEVER touched. You cannot touch the exterior of the car (especially when dirty) without expecting the paint to be scratched. This is true for almost any painted surface. Go to zaino.com and they have excellent tips on how to detail a car, what things will scratch the surface etc. etc. etc.

 

BMW paint seems to last when I see them on the roads.

 

Ain't that the truth -- my WRX was a chip magnet. I got real good at repairing chips with Langka (and it helped that the Sedona Red Pearl touchup paint was a good match). Interestingly, my wife's 02 Forester (from the same Japanese factory as the WRX) had decent paint, and my 00, 02, and now 05 Outbacks (all built in Indiana) have had awesome paint. Only the WRX paint seemed to be really fragile and thin.

Craig

 

Clear bra = happy driver

 

Honda's paint is substandard compared to German makes.