4DC

Hello all new member and I have a question about the Saleen factory paint. I have a customer that is an engine builder in the Irvine Saleen plant "I found outbecause he was wearing aSaleen shirtI told him that I loved the S281 and was planning to buy one after the first of the year. He then revealed his position there." Well, we started talking about colors and I said that I was really intersted in the Beryllium, he then tells me that both the Beryllium and the Lizstick red fade badly. Has anyone heard this before and is it true?

PolkThug

Haven't heard that. I'm sure anyone who pays the extra coin for the colors will keep their car garaged 95% of the time.

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bigtone408

I haven't heard that extensively, but I do know a guy with a lizstick S7 and he had to have the car "touched" up because the paint was lifting off the carbon fiber.

4DC

I'm sure they will but you would think that at the price you pay for the color the paint should be the best quality that you can get and not have to worry about such a thing.

Jim D.

I'm not so sure someone in the engine building deptartment is all that intimate with paint fading rumors.

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dramsey

Just drove my Liztick Red '07 through an hour of snow and sleet. I felt bad, but what can you do?

89#709

Blasphemy there Dramsey!!!

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sowaxeman

Holy S*!T Dramsey....I would have pulled off and camped under an underpass [8D]

I find it hard to believe a 17k paint job is going to fade....I'd ask that person for proof, and then if you find even ONE car that has had a fading problem, ask them about their detailing practices

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PolkThug

OMG!! I won't even drive my GT in the rain!

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dramsey

I'd driven to San Jose from Reno for a dental appointment on Tuesday, planning to come back the next day. Weather forecast said light showers on Thursday, MAYBE. By the time I got to San Jose, it was "snow over the Donner Summit Wednesday afternoon".

Well. Doesn't that suck? I wonder how well these P Zero Rossos do in the snow (the Advans on the Evo turn into ice skates). It rained in San Jose that morning just to start things off right; the snow started after Roseville and turned into (small) sleet as I continued. At some points it was pretty intense but it was never cold enough to collect on the road, fortunately. I spent a lot of time at 20mph, not wanting to determine the limits of the Rossos by using another car as a bump stop.

The car's fine, but still, I feel as if I've betrayed her.