Sunshower
Well-known member
Thank you, dear brother That is very clear and I trust you 100%First of all, it was not a joke. The finish on your vehicle, wait for it, is not nail polish. Nail polish is an enamel and has not been used to paint any vehicle in at least 35-40 years, at least since the 80's. "Nail polish" remover is acetone. I use acetone nearly every day, and I used it this past week to remove several spots of sap, on a hood. The finish on modern vehicles is a Base Coat Clear Coat system, and it is vastly superior to lacquers and enamels which are single stage finishes. Those finishes can and will be removed by a number of solvents, including acetone, paint thinner, lacquer thinning and most solvent based reducers.
But the finishes used today are all 2K, 2 part catalyzed finishes. They do not "dry" they "cure. Unless your driving a 1970's Camaro, you can use acetone. Acetone also will not leave residue behind as long as the surface your wiping clean, and don't use too much downward pressure either, because that can scratch the finish. Do not use any solvent including acetone on any plastic, like taillights, and head lights or black unpainted trim parts.
If you are still worried, take a little acetone with a white paper towel, soak a cap sized spot on the towel, wipe in an inconspicuous spot, like the inside bottom of the door, around the pinch weld area, which is clear coated, wipe it once, and check the towel. If no paint comes off you know it's not a single stage. You can even do that several times, if you really want to be sure. Wipe with the towel once, check it, then repeat again once and check the towel, and you can do that over and over again.
I can fill a mixing cup with activated clear coat, and the next day it's literally a block of clear, just like if you've ever mixed resin. Same chemical process.
The reason they didn't know, and I'm not saying this to be a jerk, but the truth is many of these guys just do not know what they are doing and have no business even charging for what they do. I asked a "competitor" once, what kind of 2K primer he was using and he said "What's that?" Well it's what he was supposed to use to "repair" paint. Clear is a 2K clear. And you use 2K primer with 2K clear. They use single stage lacquer primer, which is cheap, both in price and quality. But if you own a body shop your jobs cannot be warranted if you use laquer primer and almost all "onsite paint" guys do. And it's theft IMO!
I still remember our mask talk in my first post here and I know you know what you’re talking about. But I also know you have a great sense of humor so I thought you were teasing me. My apologies
And you are right, they clearly don’t know what they’re doing. One of them taught the other one so if nr 1 doesn’t know, nr 2 doesn’t know either.