Paint

Asked by Katelyn Sep 09, 2019 at 12:55 PM

Question type: General

If I paint my car matte red over the original,
silver, metallic paint will it catch on fire if it
gets too hot?

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No. Your car will catch on fire before the paint does, depending how hot you're talking about.

^^ that's what i thought too. A cop told me that I need to fix it because the matte paint on a metallic base will cause fire. But I don't know why that would be

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