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To be clear it's just the undercoat/primer, not the actual black exterior paint.
Underside of my hood not body color??? thoughts
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No need to clarify, I don't think anyone mistook your meaning.
There will be no appreciable weight difference either way... When I lived out west I used to race a bit more than occasionally and never - not one time ever - did I think; man, that under hood paint is killing my quarter times.
But lets look at this analytically. In the attached video, the presenter asks the question 'how much does paint weigh' and then performs an experiment to determine that answer. He starts with 1'x1' bare metal weighing 625 grams. After priming: 645 grams. After paint: 651 grams.
Notice the primer was by far the heaviest aspect of the painting process.
The darker the color the heavier it is too. That’s why most airplanes are white or lighter colors.
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I said most. Weight savings wasn’t the primary objective on these guys.
Guys...
I think we're missing the forest for the trees here...
It's not about any hypothetical weight savings between primer and three stage base and clear, which we've demonstrated is negligible. It's not about the operational mandates of disparate military aviation contracts, or some hypothetical weight variance between light and dark paints; for which we're being wildly conjectural.
The salient point is much more accessible - What we're experiencing is a shortfall in Ford's quality assurance process - specifically it seems, out of the Dearborn manufacturing facility.
That, unless I'm mistaken, is what this whole thread is about.
I think we're missing the forest for the trees here...
It's not about any hypothetical weight savings between primer and three stage base and clear, which we've demonstrated is negligible. It's not about the operational mandates of disparate military aviation contracts, or some hypothetical weight variance between light and dark paints; for which we're being wildly conjectural.
The salient point is much more accessible - What we're experiencing is a shortfall in Ford's quality assurance process - specifically it seems, out of the Dearborn manufacturing facility.
That, unless I'm mistaken, is what this whole thread is about.
Nope. The primer is green. Here's how I know:
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I'll be happy just to get a hood.
Must be Ford used the paint for under the hood on the bumpers. Lol
All joking aside though. I wonder if that would be their excuse.
maybe someone with a platinum that’s not white or black can check under their hood.
All joking aside though. I wonder if that would be their excuse.
maybe someone with a platinum that’s not white or black can check under their hood.
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Hang in there Loshad, they are building it!
These trucks are made in Kentucky, I believe.
That wouldn’t make any sense at all, because all the trucks are aluminum
Then I was mistaken when I said they were assembled in Dearborn.
Regardless, Ford's failure to maintain quality control standards remains the reason there are so many paint problems reported with these vehicles.
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