Is Original Car Paint Really That Important?

[DelEsther]

Original car factory paint is important. The differences between original factory paint and repainted paint are as follows: 1. The most obvious difference: Original factory paint is a high-temperature paint, baked at temperatures of at least 130 degrees Celsius, resulting in stronger adhesion of the coating; whereas the repair paint used for repainting is typically baked at around 80 degrees Celsius, with much poorer coating adhesion. 2. Original factory paint: Original factory paint consists of a primer, mid-coat, color coat, and clear coat. If the original primer is scratched off, it is completely impossible to repair this layer of original primer during repainting. This is because this primer layer is applied in the car factory's spray shop by immersing the entire car body in a paint pool and attaching it through cathodic electrodeposition, a process that cannot be replicated once the car leaves the factory. The primer applied during repainting is usually a phosphating-treated coating, which is incomparable to the original factory primer, and the adhesion process is vastly different.