Water-thinnable baking paints and use thereof as filler material and intermediate stone chip resistant coat, as well as process for painting motor vehicle bodies

A water-thinnable paint based on a mixture of polyurethane, polyester and, if desired, aminoplast resin as binders, wherein the baking paint comprises as binders a combination of

• (I) 20 to 70% by weight of a polyurethane resin which has an acid value of 15 to 35, and is prepared by preparing an intermediate having terminal isocyanate groups from
• a) 4.0 to 1.9 mol of polyether and/or polyester diols with a number average molecular weight of 400 to 3000,
• b) 5.6 to 11.2 mol of diisocyanates and
• c) 1.6 to 3.7 mol of compounds which contain two groups reactive toward isocyanate groups, at least some of these compounds having at least one group capable of forming anions which are neutralized either before or after the incorporation of the component (Ic) into the polyurethane molecule,
• at least some of the free isocyanate groups of which intermediate are subsequently reacted with a polyol containing at least three hydroxyl groups,
• (II) 20 to 70% by weight of an epoxy resin-modified water-thinnable polyester which is prepared by
• (A) synthesizing a polyester from
• (a1) at least one polycarboxylic acid containing at least three carboxyl groups or a reactive derivative of this acid, and/or
• (a2) at least one polyol containing at least three carboxyl groups, and
• (a3) at least one polycarboxylic acid containing two carboxyl groups or a reactive derivative of this acid and
• (a4) at least one polyol,
• at least 10 mol % of the components (a1), (a2), (a3), and (a4) (based on (a1)+(a2)+(a3)+(a4)=100 mol %) used containing at least one (cyclo)aliphatic structural unit containing at least six carbon atoms, which polyester has an average molecular weight (number average) below 2000, an acid value of 35-240, a hydroxyl value of 56-320, and in which polyester all (a1) and (a3) components are incorporated via at least two carboxyl groups, and
• (B) subsequently reacting this polyester obtained in this manner with 0.3 to 1.5 equivalents per polyester molecule of an epoxy rein having an epoxide equivalent weight of 170 to 1000, based on bisphenol, and/or with a derivative of this epoxy resin containing at least one epoxide group per molecule, under reaction conditions where essentially only carboxyl groups react with epoxide groups, to form an epoxy resin-modified polyester which is present in water-thinnable form after at least some of the free carboxyl groups are neutralized, and
• (III) 0 to 20% by weight of a water-thinnable aminoplast resin, the sum of the components (I) to (III) being always 100% by weight.