I would assume that because in California and other states this is becoming the mandatory industry standard, the clear would also have to be solvent free.??..
That would be my guess, the trend is to reduce any kind of V.O.C's in all industries as a part of reducing man's impact on the environment and the climate.
My question for you is, have you worked on these types of paints and do you handle them any differently?
Sometimes you don't know what you're working on when a car's been repainted unless you have access to the painter or the owner of the car knows these kinds of details.
No matter what the paint system it, the safe approach is to,
- Use the least aggressive product to get the job done.
- Test out products and process to a small section and dial in a successful approach before going over the entire car with any single product.
Car
manufactures have introduced paints that are not user friendly as far as buffing on them goes, paint manufactures on the other hand supply paints to the re-finishing industry that can be sanded and buffed, at least historically and that's because some shops sand and buff their work so they need a paint system that can be sanded and buffed.
The paint industry is always changing so who knows what's going be coming out in the future. In the big picture, we as the end-user of the paint, (car buyer), and we that work on paint, (detailers), need paints that can in fact be worked on.
To date there are no paint systems that act like invisible force fields so with time and wear and tear all current paint systems on current cars, trucks and s.u.v.'s need to be polished
and can be polished. The self-healing paints that have been introduced, so far don't have a good track record for polishability.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/auto-detailing-101/19216-self-healing-paint.html
It's my hope that paint companies will make paints more user friendly for both enthusiast and detailers. In a perfect world there were be a little more film-build with factory finishes as in my opinion, factory paint is too thin and detailers are limited to how much correction work they can do by the thin factor.
