I'm glad my wife bought her 2014 Honda Accord Sport in silver. Today during its first service since Carrie bought the car in January, the attendant told me that "around 2007 or 2008" Honda started using cheaper paint for white and black. Further, the attendant told me he sees all the chipping and fading problems with those colors when he's over in the detail department.
I asked him if the same holds for Acura and he said he didn't know.
When the EPA got involved with paint a while back, quality diminished, especially for metallics. The government has a bad habit of "mandating" things without having a clue if what they are mandating can be accomplished without punishing companies and in turn consumers and often, employees. In any case, over time, new paint formulations improved on the poor paint after these laws went into effect. At this point, I have no idea why black and white paint on any car would pose problems or why Honda would choose to save money on these colors and not others. This doesn't make any sense.
Posted by: Angelo | November 09, 2014 at 01:26 PM