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it will do for metal only built cars, if you have plastics/fibre or the AUDI spaceframe or alu body then it wont read. there are ones out there that read alu aswell.JustinR1979 wrote: »Really?
Never looked into buying one, but last I heard they were 10 times that.
Better than nothing I suppose, as long as it erred on the side of under thickness.
by personal knowledge, a factory cars paint thickness will range from 2.5mm to 8mm anything over that thickness is likely to have been repainted. so if you know it hasn't been in a bump or repainted at all, then you air on the side of caution and go slow with a rotary mop or DA (not DA sander by DA polisher) on slow settings in small sections at a time. anything under 3.0 thick to me is too thin, I wont use no buffing machine near a car with that thickness.0 -
from memory I think the torque was 250 or 260Nm from 1900-2950 equate to about 190ftlbs in the same rev range.JustinR1979 wrote: »125bhp from a 1.6 diesel is good.
What's the torque considering is fairly small engine?
More worryingly I'm in Dorset
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atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »It gets a proper detailing august/September, then again in may/june.
just washes and soft waxing inbetween.
Similar routine to me.
Anyone who takes their car to the "europeans" doesnt value their car0 -
in 2009-2010 when it went -20 here, the snow and ice stuck so hard to my neighbors car that when kids rolled snow onit to make a snow ball on it compressed it into a ball and pick it up it took the paint with it. my routine, yes the car froze but that protective layermeant that ice couldn't inbed directly into the paints pours so ice just rolled off mine.Similar routine to me.
Anyone who takes their car to the "europeans" doesnt value their car0 -
8mm paint thickness from the factory, how many coats is that?0
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depends on who set the robots. GRR prodictive text doesn't recognize Mils.Captaincodpiece wrote: »8mm paint thickness from the factory, how many coats is that?
MM-as in Mils in this case.0 -
8 millimetres?!
It's measured in microns, 100ish upwards from memory.
Had someone detail my M3 (sorry) was something like 30-40 microns each of primer, paint and clear - so to a degree you have to guess how thick the clear is even with a gauge..
Unless memory is playing up.
Not bad on the torque then
My 1.9 is 230 lb/ft, reason I chose it over others with same bhp.
190 is good for a 1.6, sounds like a nippy car.0 -
atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »depends on who set the robots. GRR prodictive text doesn't recognize Mils.
MM-as in Mils in this case.
That doesn't mean anything to me.
But with 1000 microns to a millimetre you're taking 8000 microns in thickness.
Looking about, 200 microns is good for today's paint go I guess mine ain't going to last he winter.0 -
Captaincodpiece wrote: »8mm paint thickness from the factory, how many coats is that?
3 million, give or take a million I reckon.0 -
Actually, if I wash the car, other than on Boxing Day. The wife says to me "I see you're getting a new car then"I can afford anything that I want.
Just so long as I don't want much.0
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