best paint

[Lewis Ledyard]

Which of top of the line paints from Sikkens, Glasurit and PPG is the best? This is to paint a bare metal aluminum car, so I do not have to match a pre-existing paint. I want something very close to BMW Mauritius Blue, but I would prefer top quality finish and durability over an exact match to the factory color.

Thanks

[JC930]

I've got a vehicle with PPG on it and I'm impressed, that's hard for me to say because I sell another brand. I think the most important thing is the painter.
jc930

[Harlan Chinn]

Sikkens, Glasurit and PPG are all superior products, but it's the hours of proper preparation and what JC930 said about the painter.

[larry47us]

Lewis:

The shop that is restoring my car uses DuPont. I spent a bunch of time reading and writing to Threads about paints. Everyone seems to agree on the following:

1. The quality of the preparation is more important than the brand of paint.

2. The painter's experience with a particular paint is more important than the reputation of any other brand.

3. Paints are designed to be single stage or dual stage paints. There is a difference in finish between these two that is more significant than the finish of the paint. Decide what you want.

I am sure that there are other things, too. But this is what I gathered as important things from what was said to me.

larry

[john70t]

I agreed with the experience/effort/quality thing.
The guys that painted my car practiced with cheap paint on the filter housing that came out super-glossy but chipped easily.
They either didn`t wait to/or didn`t sand the primer(evercoat) before applying the base coat(PPG), so the color base became wavey after a few months.
The clear coat(Dupont premier) is clear in the can(compared to the yellowish PPG), thick and glossy, and gets "oohs", but is super sensitive to micro-scratches. I don't know if it's the product or whether they cut the clear the day after while it was still soft.

[RoninLB]

full urethanes, not acrylic urethanes have a longer molecular chain for durability.......Ron