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To: Spktyr

To be honest, I haven't seen any cars, foreign or domestic, made in the last 10 or 15 years that had the horrible paint delamination problem. When it was happening, the great majority I saw were US makes, but some Japanese cars suffered the same problem. What was sad was that the manufacturers would not stand behind their product and fix this problem when it occured. Stupid and short-sighted. Having your company's cars all over the place with hideous delaminated paint creates a really bad image. Customers, not surprisingly, expect that when they buy a car that the original paint will stay stuck to it (excepting rust spots) for the life of the car. Certainly helped to turn me off buying a "domestic" car.


202 posted on 10/19/2006 3:21:28 PM PDT by -YYZ-
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To: -YYZ-

There's a 01 GMC truck sitting at the neighbor's that's got that problem. They still have the problem, it's just less frequent than it used to be because they added a little bit more paint a few years ago. They're still painting on the cheap, not painting to last and last.


206 posted on 10/19/2006 5:09:26 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: -YYZ-; Spktyr

Blame the EPA for the paint....

Rapid changes in regulations for paint emissions aren't a good thing... The reason you saw mostly US makes with the problem was that most cars built in the US were still domestic makes then, and cars built overseas didn't have the same regs put on them.


223 posted on 10/20/2006 5:57:29 AM PDT by eraser2005
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