Is Citrus Yellow 3-stage or tri-coat paint?

[02insight]

Some shops said its 3-stage, while others said it was base+clear.

By 3 stage, I mean base, midcoat, and clear. Compared to the standard base+clear paints.

I cannot find info anywhere saying that its a tri-coat paint.

[02insight]

Here are some pics I found on google for reference.

[AbCaRed00]

Here's from the repair manual, body repair, paint section pdf
mirrored here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6ED...5MmM5ZTFm/edit

Three coat three bake process is described as "3C-3B" process.
Basically:
Pretreatment --> Electrodeposition of Primer --> (Chipping Primer) Intermediate Coat --> Top Coat
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btw&fwiw: can't see the pictures mentioned, as with some other posts on other recent threads.

[02insight]

thank you. I have the bodyrepair manual, but I never thought of looking through it for paint info

[02insight]

I think the 3 coat mentioned in the manual is different from the general meaning that people use when they say 3-stage paint.

The manual is showing 3 parts starting with the primer on the metal.

The 3-stage I am talking about is starting with the color base, then a midcoat, then clear.

But I dont see that mentioned in the manual. All it says is metallic enamle + clear. So perhaps it is just regular metallic base+clear paint.

[boogetyboogety]

Just a wild guess, since I truly don't know paint from shinola. But my gut feeling is, on a car that has a carbon-fiber dipstick to save weight, I don't believe Honda would have used one extra atom of paint than it needed to, so two layers, please, instead of three. I might be wrong...

[samwichse]

Originally Posted by boogetyboogety

Just a wild guess, since I truly don't know paint from shinola. But my gut feeling is, on a car that has a carbon-fiber dipstick to save weight, I don't believe Honda would have used one extra atom of paint than it needed to, so two layers, please, instead of three. I might be wrong...

Mine was just plain metal?

[Eli]

Yeah, metal here too. I want a carbon fiber dipstick! The 1.5 grams saved might net me 0.0000000000000192mpg!