ASTM D 6486 - 01 (Reapproved 2005) Standard Practice for Short Term Vehicle Service Exposure of Automotive Coatings

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Current edition approved May 15, 2005. Published July 2005. Originally approved in 1999. Last previous edition approved in 2001 as D 6486 – 01. 3 p. This practice covers the protocol for vehicle service exposure testing of automotive coatings. Such exposure testing is valuable for the verification of the performance of automotive coatings and correlation with laboratory test data. Vehicle service exposure is intended to provide short term (2 to 20 weeks) exposure to the stress factors associated with vehicle operation. Factors included are scratch, mar, impact, stone chipping, insect impact, bird dropping, tree sap and staining, environmental fallout, etc.