Re: Sanding Car ready for Paint

Posted by BigKev On 2010/12/30 15:31:30

I figured Europe would be all Water Bourne color coats. I know European production vehicles have been for quite a while. The US was actually late in adopting Water Bourne paints.

Not sure if the laws are the same there, but in Calif a "hobbyist" can paint two cars a years in just about anything. Shops cannot, it all comes down to VOCs. Every paint job for a shop is allotted a certain amount of VOCs. So if you are spraying Base/Clear. The clear is using up all the VOC allotment, so you have to spray a water Bourne/based color coat. If you shoot single stage, then the color coat can be the "good stuff" as you would not have a Clear coat using up all the VOCs.