Thore1988

Hello guys and greetings from germany,

maybe someone of you can give me an answer for
the following question:

Some model-years of the cherokee were painted with a kind of "reflow-lacquer" in german its called "thermoplast-Lack"...this kind of car-paint is very hard to remove in order to repaint the car.

Was this kind of Lacquer used through all the model years until 2001?
My Cherokee is a 1997 Facelift, and im not quite sure which kind of Lacquer was used...

Thx a lot

Greetings

91 limited owner

I believe that Cherokees where never painted with a lacquer. Mainly because it's too expansive (and to hard, lacquer needs a lot of coats. To look good) to use for general production. They did use enamel (whether a solid or metallic paint), and clear coat. And Chrysler has a bad history of their paint not sticking. (A lot of recalls) Your tag on drivers door will tell you what was used. Here's a site http://www.xjjeeps.com/default.aspx?region=us with PDF format Mopar- Chrysler OEM parts catalogs, Down load a copy for yourself. The first few pages explains the body code tags (including paint & procedures) Someone else could of painted in lacquer, But I highly doubt it because of the high expanse, and poor durability of it. Also check the Chrysler recall lists on your Cherokee. They had a lot of paint recalls. My '91 was repainted free due to that about 12 years ago.

Thore1988

Thx for the reply.

Just went outside, took a picture of the body code plate.
So what does it say?

Following the "Parts catalog" from the link above:

paint procedure: APA
Primary Paint: PW1
Secondary Paint: QW1

Radi

Factory enamel pretty much went away by 1980, lacquer long before (except for a handful of hand-sprayed low-production manufacturers) Urethane single and two-state paints pretty much took over.
The early versions used a water based color coat that wouldn't adhere to the primer correctly and peeled like all heck- Chrysler, GM..they all had problems..thank you EPA... followed by a solvent based clear

paint procedure: APA = monochrome paint (entire vehicle is a single color, not two-tone)
Primary Paint: PW1 = color #1 is Stone White Clear Coat
Secondary Paint: QW1 = color #2 is Stone White Clear Coat

91 limited owner

Thanks for the info: that explains why my build sheet says APAS Monotone Paint (The S being for the Silver it is painted) Where did you learn that handy bit of info? Ya learn something new every day!

Gee oh Dee

Crazy know-it-all Wisconsin folk. Jeeze.

Radi

APA= monochrome paint
APB= two tone paint (car)
APC- two tone paint (truck)
"P" code is the main body color
"Q" code is the secondary body color. (same as P if monochrome)
Any Chrysler product from 1984 forward should use that scheme.

Radi

You have 4 wheel antilock (BGK)
A floor console (CUF)
Overhead Console (CUN)
Fender Mouldings (K2Z)
Cargo area lamp (LDB)
Roof Rack (MWG)
Your Jeep was built on April 11 (411)
You also have cloth high-back bucket seats- Mist Gray (M5C3),
a 4.0 engine (ERH),
An AX15 (DDQ)
Built for the USA Market (U)

freegdr

forgot one thing ...(OLD)and its starting to rust...

Radi

Heh. Mine seems to have the "floorpan delete" option. (FDE) It's quite popular in the salt belt.

91 limited owner

I was impressed!

Thore1988

Thx a lot guys!

Another question right here:

All Cherokees which were built for the german market got a "engine immobilizer",
was it the same with the ones which were built for the US?