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Mon, 20 Feb 17 6:15 PM | 107 view(s)
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Hey De,

just looking at the picture you posted on the top coat of paint on that car indicates to me,( and I do this for a living and had for a career as well), that there was lack of adhesion between the base or prime coat and the finish or top coat of paint.

There can be several factors that affect that condition and the factory should have been aware that it existed from testing.

The PAINT itself may not be bad. What was bad was the application process which includes preparation and pre-treatment before application of the primer coat and AFTER the primer coat before the topcoat was applied.

But , in the end, when you as a consumer and owner of a vehicle that looks like that rightfully see is a "crappy paint job" and that is true.

I just had that same conversation on Friday afternoon at a company that makes Iron Gates and fencing and they have allowed their subcontractor for their "paint" finish to choose a coating that MAYBE will last two years before it begins to weather and the owner I was talking with and trying to educate as I ascertained he literally knew NOTHING about powder coating, doesn't have the fortitude to even call the subcontractor and tell him to explore the costs and pricing of a coating that will last at minimum 7 years before it even HINTS of a slight change in gloss, not color.

Difference in price would likely be ZERO.

Lots of morons out there who really could care less about their end customers and desire to go through life willfully ignorant and stupid.

I let him know before I left that I could not in good conscience ever recommend to a consumer to purchase his product as it is vastly inferior and will not last for what people pay for it. I know too many other shops like his who do a much better job.

But, yes sir, that paint job is horrific and could have been avoided by the company and some engineers should have caught that.

Shame on them....


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Re: Soliciting Recommendations on a used car...
By: Decomposed
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Mon, 20 Feb 17 6:31 AM
Msg. 21115 of 47202

Zimbler: 

re: "GirlFriend LOVES her Corolla."

My wife had a Geo Prism. It's the same car. When we bought a van and moved to Virginia, the van became hers and the Prism was mine . . . until 2008 or 2009 when she took my son to a music lesson and someone T-boned the Prism, totalling it. That's when I bought the Silverado.

And your girlfriend is right. It's an extremely reliable car, though I don't know if they're made as well today. What I will say is that, new, the Corolla was about $2,000 more than the Prism. Since the only differences between two were the hubcaps and the trunk hood - the two cars were even made at the same factory - it's apiparent that some folks will pay $2,000 to have TOYOTA's hood ornament instead GEO's.

I will say this: Prisms and Corollas both have the crappiest paint jobs of any car I know. Half the paint flaked away on that Prism. Every so often, I see something with the same screwed up paint and it always turns out to be a Corolla or Prism!

That wouldn't stop me from buying a Corolla, but it does make me wonder just a little about Toyota's quality control.

The photo below isn't my Prism, but it's exactly what happeened to me and bunch of other Prism/Corolla owners. (How is your girlfriend's paint holding up?)

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