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Old 07-13-2004, 05:25 PM   #21
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Yes, like I wrote earlier, I've had two grey/silver vehicles that have had paint peeling problems like our Minuet. I love the color but no matter how much you wax them, they still seem to peel.

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Honest, tomorrow when you are out driving around, take a look at all the cars around you. The majority with horrible paint jobs are light blue metallic and silver. The sun absolutely kills those colors, right down to the paint peeling off them.
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Thank you so much for all your imfo. I'm so much more at easy buy an argosy now. It certainly has been an education.
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Old 07-24-2004, 03:43 PM   #23
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In hindsight, and now that I have some trailering experience, I kinda wish I had purchased a used unit. The Argosy is my favorite recent vintage AS. WAY cool, especially when found in good shape. I'm thinking I may have to have one one day....

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In hindsight, and now that I have some trailering experience, I kinda wish I had purchased a used unit. The Argosy is my favorite recent vintage AS. WAY cool, especially when found in good shape. I'm thinking I may have to have one one day....

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One thing that attracted me to the Argosy was that they have fewer of the little luxury accessories that tend to break and stop working. I am in this to use my trailer, not to spend every weekend trying to repair a whozits module, or trying to get the automatic conflabulator working, because they never had one installed on the trailer to begin with to break.
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The problem with the light blue and silver (often called fly-away because of the peeling) is that they look good with low film build. If the paint shop cheats on film build (thickness of the paint) the UV will get to the primer and cause the bond between the primer and top coat to fail. We, at GM, had a major problem with this in the 80s, especially cars built at Willow Run Assembly.
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The problem with the light blue and silver (often called fly-away because of the peeling) is that they look good with low film build. If the paint shop cheats on film build (thickness of the paint) the UV will get to the primer and cause the bond between the primer and top coat to fail. We, at GM, had a major problem with this in the 80s, especially cars built at Willow Run Assembly.
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During the 80's, our local GMC/Chevrolet dealership would not even Floorplan silver vehicles because the paint failed before they could sell them. Only would do dealer transfers and build to order.

GM was not the only ones with this problem. Ford repainted thousands of trucks under a "secret" recall. I personally knew several people that got this done.
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I have a '93 Dodge D250 with two tone grey/silver which had the fenders, doors, and the top of the cab repainted by the dealership. The hood looks pretty bad now but they wont repaint them anymore. I love my truck, but not the paint job!

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During the 80's, our local GMC/Chevrolet dealership would not even Floorplan silver vehicles because the paint failed before they could sell them. Only would do dealer transfers and build to order.

GM was not the only ones with this problem. Ford repainted thousands of trucks under a "secret" recall. I personally knew several people that got this done.
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