When did BMW start using water based paints?

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Andy325i
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Post Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:43 am

Thats it really :)

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Post Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:14 am

Would have been sometime in the late nineties, the body repairers I used to work for does all the work for the local BMW dealers, they have a special paint scheme (water based) just for this.
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Post Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:38 pm

Cool, someone told me it was when the E36 came out but thought it was later, maybe on the facelift cars? Are all paintshops using waterbased now?
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