Vehicles now have plastic chrome and cheaper paint. Cant compare that
Chip/scratch prevention preferred method?
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The paint has been getting thinner and thinner for a long time, there isn’t one year where this happened. The actual metal the panels are made from is much thinner now also. GM is famous for failing paint, there’s no way I’d buy a new vehicle and not do every I could to protect it if I intended to keep it a long time. There are so many K2 trucks with failing paint it isn’t funny and the oldest of those is 2015 and all of those front ends are just peppered with rock chips. It isn’t like you have to have the vehicles very long before the paint looks like complete garbage if you don’t go above and beyond to take care of it. It is BS that it has to be this way but GM cares only about making money not about making a product that lasts.
Quark
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Vehicles used to hold up well enough to worry about their appearance in 10 years, will these?
I'm one to hand wash and wax and hold long term but thinking of changing strategy with these newer ones. Flip 'em before they break. This will no doubt be far costlier but isn't that the intention - maximize profit and to hell with the customer?
I'm one to hand wash and wax and hold long term but thinking of changing strategy with these newer ones. Flip 'em before they break. This will no doubt be far costlier but isn't that the intention - maximize profit and to hell with the customer?
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