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Originally Posted by dizman7
Off topic question. Did they stop painting the underside of the hood matte black for 2010? That's the 2nd one I've seen where it's not matte black. I thought it was a nice touch that they went to the trouble to do that. oh well
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AFAIK the underside of the hood is actually the base or primer coat on the car. The use a white base for Alpine so the underside looks like it was painted to match the car. On darker colors like my LeMans Blue the primer is black and so under the hood is black. They may use a yellow primer here.