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Originally Posted by Divine Detail
Lot of readings were taken just to make sure there were no surprises to this vehicle, as you can see the vehicle had plenty of clear coat.
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nice work guys....
just be aware them readings given on that gauge are total thickness of all layers. So the figure given in pic above of 190 microns
could mean 180 of that is primer/paint with the remaining 10 microns being clearcoat which if that was the case it wouldnt be "plenty of clear coat"
just making it aware to people that because a reading is high it doesnt always mean that it has a safe level of clear coat. I have come across a vehicle not to long
ago that had a average reading of 300+ microns due to being resprayed but after inspecting again with the 200 model I found that it didnt have very much clear coat (12-15 microns- which is very low) to enable me to use a heavy combo which was needed to get a decent level of correction...i could of easily went thru the clear here or removed 4 microns of clear coat and risked the chance of the vehicle somwhere down the line having cc failur...
i would say anything under 8 microns of clear and you run a chance of clear coat failure happening so be wary guys.