This insane sensationalist nonsense about matte paint needs to stop.
Look here are the absolute facts about matte paint, in virtually every way it is either equal or easier to maintain than gloss paint of the same color. Take that from someone who has worked at a shop that has painted dozens of high end matte cars and owns a car with matte paint.
In fact matte is so much easier to care for than gloss paint it's like comparing bullet proof steel to play-doh. Any scratches from micro scratches to large ones either are not visible on matte paint as opposed to being visible on gloss or could not be polished out anyways on gloss. Meaning it is substantially better at dealing with scratches or equal. This means matte does not require regular detailing, compounding, etc because it does not show swirl marks, which removes the majority of the work from maintence. Furthermore as far as paint protection goes, matte wax goes on much more consistently and with less effort than gloss wax. Matte paint also is easier to spray than gloss if you ever want or need to repspray a panel.
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Originally Posted by KIS
Can it be wet sanded, as well?
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Matte paint never needs to be wet sanded.
The absurd myth that matte paint is difficult to care for resulted from BMW releasing an advisory to customers of matte cars that contained a bunch of common sense advice and legal mumbo jumbo, and included such helpful advice as to not atempt to put products which increase the shine of your paint on your matte car, and to do exactaly the same things you should be doing to gloss paint. Naturally because matte paint came with pedantic instructions people concluded that it was such an incredible nightmare to deal with. This lacks basic logic, the instructions for gloss paint would be several times longer all things being equal, but all is not equal because people aren't used to matte paint, but are used to gloss. This is the equivalent of going to a store and trying to buy a basketball, then seeing one with instructions such as "choking hazard, do not dip ball in acid, do not light ball on fire, will explode in the vacume of space" and another basketball without such warnings and concluding that the ball with the legalese is substantially more difficult to use than the one that has no intructions at all. This is stupid.
I hope this topic can finally be put to rest and we can all jump off the sensationalist bandwagon. Matte paint has an extremely substantial reduction in the effort required to maintain it compared to gloss of the same color. End of story.