Faded Timber and Stone Chips - DB9

[jezzwelda]

Anyone had any problems with patchy fading of the wood on their dash?

My 5 month old DB9's not looking too good and it looks like the fading is not cosistent with the grain.

To add to that I'm picking up a lot of stone chips which are really visible - black paint which chips to reveal white primer.

Comments appreciated

[Murph7355]

jezzwelda said:

To add to that I'm picking up a lot of stone chips which are really visible - black paint which chips to reveal white primer.

Unfortunate fact of life on sportscars. And I have a sneaking suspicion the new water based paints they have to use aren't as hardy as the old fashioned environmentally unfriendly ones.

Only way to really help it is to get protection film put on the car. I used to hate this stuff as you can see the join lines etc, but a company called Paintshield can do full panels on many cars so no join. However, I believe there's a still a join on the bonnet on Astons.

The owner (chap called Tom) is going to ping me some photos next week - if the joins aren't noticeable, I'm going to get mine (V8V) done.

Can't help on the wood, but from experience with my 355 it would probably pay to have a windscreen sunshade if parking the car outside in summer.

[Petrolnog]

jezzwelda said:

Anyone had any problems with patchy fading of the wood on their dash?

My 5 month old DB9's not looking too good and it looks like the fading is not cosistent with the grain.

To add to that I'm picking up a lot of stone chips which are really visible - black paint which chips to reveal white primer.

Comments appreciated

I had terrible stone chip problems on the first one because the paint (apparently) wasn't baked long enough. Problem was resolved for the second build, can't say I've had a problem with the wood though, even when its parked outside the office most days.

[jezzwelda]

Thanks gents - strangely enough I'm in the paint business and you're right about newer water based paints - lower levels of hardness are a fact of life although they should still perform better than they have.

On the woodwork front it looks like it's been partially treated and that's causing the problem.

It's always easier aguing with the dealer if you can point to others with the same problem - so any futher comments welcome.