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To everyone that has a Tiger Racing Boss 302R hood, did you have any issues with fiberglass emissions causing paint defects? How "flawless" is the quality of your paint? I purchased a hood from Paul a little more than a month ago, had it dropped at my local paint shop who I trust and have worked with several times in the past.
They painted the hood, a few days later I saw a black haze or trash in the red of the hood when washing it. I talked to my paint guy and he thought that it was the fiberglass still emitting as it dried and cured. We decided to wait a month and he would shoot it again. Well... he shot it again yesterday, decided instead of allowing it to bake in the paint booth, he would let it dry over night. This morning he looked at it and the black is back again. When he shot the hood, he also shot a metal test panel. The panel is perfect so it's not trash in the gun or paint. He called the PPG rep out and the rep thought the same thing, that the hood was still emitting causing the defect. I've reached out to Paul on a few different occassions to try and get some feedback but all attempts were unanswered. So here I am to see what you guys thought.
I'm putting the hood back on for now and have told my paint guy not to fight with it anymore. It's definetely something that most people wouldn't notice. You have to be up on the hood about a foot away to see the haze I'm talking about. I know that the hood is a race hood and I knew not to expect a perfect hood. The hood quality was great, best fiberglass hood I've bought by far and I've bought a lot of fiberglass parts over the years. The paint thing's just got me stumped.
TIA,
Jason
They painted the hood, a few days later I saw a black haze or trash in the red of the hood when washing it. I talked to my paint guy and he thought that it was the fiberglass still emitting as it dried and cured. We decided to wait a month and he would shoot it again. Well... he shot it again yesterday, decided instead of allowing it to bake in the paint booth, he would let it dry over night. This morning he looked at it and the black is back again. When he shot the hood, he also shot a metal test panel. The panel is perfect so it's not trash in the gun or paint. He called the PPG rep out and the rep thought the same thing, that the hood was still emitting causing the defect. I've reached out to Paul on a few different occassions to try and get some feedback but all attempts were unanswered. So here I am to see what you guys thought.
I'm putting the hood back on for now and have told my paint guy not to fight with it anymore. It's definetely something that most people wouldn't notice. You have to be up on the hood about a foot away to see the haze I'm talking about. I know that the hood is a race hood and I knew not to expect a perfect hood. The hood quality was great, best fiberglass hood I've bought by far and I've bought a lot of fiberglass parts over the years. The paint thing's just got me stumped.
TIA,
Jason