1993 Cobra paint thickness

oneof185

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Anyone measure their paint thickness on a 93?I'm getting my car detailed and ceramic coated. Guy was surprised at how thick my paint was. It's a VR car, he said it was around 9.8 mil everywhere and he said typically around 5 is normal. My 2015 I had there at the same time was 4.8...I know big difference in years but he said even back in the 90's cars are usually much lower than mine.
 

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Nope 100% original. Found some information on people stating the Teal were painted several times at factory and had ratings up to 11mil so not sure if that was case with the vibrant red as well. Another thing I didn’t know was the front bumper on the vibrant red was single stage. But the detailer said it was, so I did some searching and found that to be true.
 

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Wow if it's OG paint. And I'm not 100% sure, but I'd guess that the entire car should be SS paint. Manufactures, to my knowledge, did not paint only one section/panel/part SS and the rest base/clear.

On a positive note, I wish all cars had this much paint/clear!
 

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