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First let me start off by saying I am rather bummed right now. I thought I was going to be the proud new owner of a new Spice Red GTO. Didn't happen yet (maybe never at this rate) due to the paint problems with the clearcoat that many of you have heard about.

Long story short, I have looked at 6 different Spice Reds in the past couple of days and they all have the milky splotches in the paint and lots of them. The dealers had no clue until I pointed them out and told them about the TSB and they are shocked. As many of you know, there is a TSB on it saying that it is moisture under the clearcoat and a heat gun will fix it.

I have now looked closely at the paint of more GTO's than I care to remember and seems like the Spice Red has a much worse problem. When looking at the paint, there is a ghosting effect and looks as if the paint is pinkish/white in color.

Well, 2 dealers have tried the heat gun fix for me and this fix didn't totally clear up this problem. Sure it helped, but if you really look closely you can still see the ghosting. I made a deal on one last night providing they could fix the splotches and they are having trouble getting it out. They have tried the heat gun about 5 times, and it has gotten better, but it is still there. Tomorrow they are going to try it outside in the sun so they can really see where the spotches are.

So the point to all this rambling is if you have a Spice Red or any color for that matter, look it over closely for this. I think that the heat gun fix must not work as well on this color. I will know more tomorrow when they try again, but I am also concerned about the effects of the heat gun on the clearcoat down the road.

So now I really want to know if a Spice Red even exists without these problems? I haven't seen one yet that didn't. I would order one in a heartbeat if I knew the one I ordered wouldn't have them. But I think a lot of people have these splotches and never even know because they don't look at cars as hard as I do.