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Normal metallic and Individual colors: all on the same assembly line, sprayed one after another
Our Dutch fellow member @RobNL84 has an interesting story about how the i4s are painted. Here's what he said:
For everybody able to do it, I highly recommend the factory tour in Munich. Gives a great insight. Just visited last week.
Best 14 euro spend this year (Excluding the trip to Munch) ;-)
Got lucky to go passed the paintshop and with option to ask questions. So all colours are sprayed based on order number, no same colour order. I could see
a Sao Paulo Yellow M3, than an Verde Mantis/Signal Green M3 and a Tansanit 4 GC go next. All other individual colours are also sprayed on the same line,
but different tips for the frozen colours on the spray robots, these can changes automatically. After every car the robots do a flush of the system. Only someone
needs to connect some kind of paint container thingy to the system for the special colours. The guide told that the paintshop is only 5 years old and quite up
to date. But some parts are sprayed manually, and they're only allowed to have a certain amount of paint mixed at the ready, so this part is where the delay
comes in to plan this. But couldn't see this part of the process. Somebody did ask why the huge price difference, but the guide could not answer that question.
He did look up and smiled tho ;-)
Normal metallic and Individual colors: all on the same assembly line, sprayed one after another
Our Dutch fellow member @RobNL84 has an interesting story about how the i4s are painted. Here's what he said:
For everybody able to do it, I highly recommend the factory tour in Munich. Gives a great insight. Just visited last week.
Best 14 euro spend this year (Excluding the trip to Munch) ;-)
Got lucky to go passed the paintshop and with option to ask questions. So all colours are sprayed based on order number, no same colour order. I could see
a Sao Paulo Yellow M3, than an Verde Mantis/Signal Green M3 and a Tansanit 4 GC go next. All other individual colours are also sprayed on the same line,
but different tips for the frozen colours on the spray robots, these can changes automatically. After every car the robots do a flush of the system. Only someone
needs to connect some kind of paint container thingy to the system for the special colours. The guide told that the paintshop is only 5 years old and quite up
to date. But some parts are sprayed manually, and they're only allowed to have a certain amount of paint mixed at the ready, so this part is where the delay
comes in to plan this. But couldn't see this part of the process. Somebody did ask why the huge price difference, but the guide could not answer that question.
He did look up and smiled tho ;-)
