New Waterborne System is Our Best Basecoat Ever

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  I�m Tom Griffin, president of Mayfield Collision Centers, with two locations on the east side of Cleveland. We�ve been in business for 28 plus years now. What paint system you use is the third biggest decision any shop owner must make. So when we had the opportunity to spray the Ultra 9K, we jumped on it and within a day, two at the most, we've see significant improvements. Now, two months later whatever, it's just happened day in day out. Consistency, predictability, quality, speed, happier employees. It�s been win, win, win. There is absolutely no downside to the Ultra 9K. Everybody wants the perfect paint system. And if there is such a thing, this is absolutely it. Finding your color with Ultra 9K is very simple with the color access system. You plug in the code and it brings everything right up�your variances, you get a nice color chip library you use. You go check them. What you mix is what you get on the card. And 99.9% of the time, they�re matching great. And we�re painting cars. The best thing about Ultra 9K is the color match. I�ve never seen anything like it. It amazes me. And the coverage, too. I started laughing on a silver because it covered so fast I couldn�t believe it. I was like, �Man, my job is really going to get a lot easier.� What it looks like before you hit bake, it�s going to look like that afterwards. You're not going to get any profiling popping out on blend panels. You�re not going to get pinching up and dye back. Get a really nice gloss every time. I say definitely try it. I think you�d probably be fool not to because it works very well. I've been painting cars long time and I enjoy painting again. Because it�s easy. It looks good.

When we were developing our Ultra 9K water-based basecoat system in our lab, we focused on productivity and efficiency. We looked at ease of use—creating a no-stir system with shake-and-pour containers. We looked at the number of toners to streamline the system. We also looked at must-have tools to hit on color match, time and again. And, we were successful. Tom Griffin, President of Mayfield Collision Centers, has seen significant improvements and so have his painters.