Thread: GM doesn't prep plastic before paint...

Originally Posted by Explicit_Spade

And yet cars are being built to only last for one crash now or 250k miles at the most, so the paint doesn't matter. My 79 Malibu had factory brown paint with less clearcoat peel than most pregens.

When plastic is heated it produces fumes that are toxic to the envrionment and people, is this not an issue with this process? If it keeps things out of a landfill, but pollutes the air, is it any better than the old method?

Here's a related link I found to the process itself (which looks to be by a manufaturer of the equipment and highly biased)
http://www.ftstechnologies.com/Docum...20Overview.PDF

I see this going over as well as dexcool.

in 79 they were still using lead in everything thats... when the 80s came they started taking lead out of everything and making emmisions and all that... basically the automotive industry had to start over... also those cars that survied more than one crash... well their owners didn't cars frames are designed to fail in places in a crash sending the energy around the passengers

I don't think the paint or clearcoat they're using now is as good as 10 years ago. On my 2010 Malibu, I've been as careful with it as can be, but it has scratches all over. Really pisses me off.