PTS - Technical Paint Question
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Perhaps a more knowledgeable Porsche person will be able to explain or point me in the right direction but I keep seeing a lot of the more "exclusive" models being specced with PTS colors.
All fine but for one thing, the quality of the paint in my eyes looks really off.
Now am I a paint expert? No. But I can't shake it.
The only way I can explain it is the paint looks too thick and too matte, this causes (in my opinion) the natural curves and creases of the cars to be lost. Like a girl who wears too much make-up leaving their face looking smooth and two-dimensional. Perhaps it's the photographs I am seeing of these cars but even when I have seen them in person, they just seem so flat for what is a very expensive option.
Has Porsche changed the paint supplier they use or is it just my failing vision?
All fine but for one thing, the quality of the paint in my eyes looks really off.
Now am I a paint expert? No. But I can't shake it.
The only way I can explain it is the paint looks too thick and too matte, this causes (in my opinion) the natural curves and creases of the cars to be lost. Like a girl who wears too much make-up leaving their face looking smooth and two-dimensional. Perhaps it's the photographs I am seeing of these cars but even when I have seen them in person, they just seem so flat for what is a very expensive option.
Has Porsche changed the paint supplier they use or is it just my failing vision?
Ours is very good on the 991. My own view is 992 in general has slipped a bit in build quality all over. Cheaper plastics here and there. Quite a bit of orange peel in paint. They’re probably fine after a professional detail and some PPF to give them a sheen. 991 was a runner up for a bit of fun at recent R21 concours with M&A coach works judging the paint. My 997 curiously got a better mark than our 991 for paint after a full repaint by Porsche Reading.
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|https://thumbsnap.com/wop88su4[/url]Only one PTS experience here. A 718 Spyder in Azzuro Thetys Metallic. From new the car went straight to the detailer for PPF and paint correction. Only there wasn’t any paint correction required, the detailer said it was the best factory paint he had ever seen. Make of that what you will and it’s only a sample of one. The car looked fantastic.
However what I would say is that some of my non PTS cars have required extensive work just to look half decent.
However what I would say is that some of my non PTS cars have required extensive work just to look half decent.
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