What is the Function of Automotive Topcoat?

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Automotive topcoat serves the purpose of decoration or protection. The automotive topcoat layer mainly consists of topcoat and clear coat. The types of automotive topcoat include solid color paint and metallic paint. Solid color paint is a type of paint that does not contain metal particles and is generally used in low-end vehicles, trucks, pickups, etc. It typically refers to solid colors such as black, white, red, yellow, cream, light yellow, etc., without the addition of reflective materials (such as aluminum powder, mica, etc.). Metallic paint is a type of paint that contains metal particles, which can make the automotive topcoat more colorful, harder, and more beautiful. Medium to high-end vehicles generally use metallic paint. Metallic paint can be further divided into silver metallic paint and pearl paint. The difference between these two lies in the type of metal particles used—one contains aluminum powder, and the other contains pearl powder, while other materials remain largely the same.