Method for the production and repair of multicoat special-effect coating

Method for the production and repair of multicoat special-effect coatings, comprising

• (1) applying a basecoat to a substrate in a one pass spray application, wherein the basecoat is a coating material containing at least one platelet-like pigment,
• (2) repairing the basecoat, using a coating material containing at least one platelet-like pigment,
• (3) applying a transparent coating to the coating obtained in step (2) to obtain a multicoat coating,
• wherein
• (i) in step (1) a coating material is employed which at a solids content of 18% by weight and at a temperature of 23.degree. C. and at a shear rate of 1000 s.sup.-1 after a shear period of 6 s has an apparent viscosity of from 40 to 200 mPa s, after a shear period of 300 s at a shear rate of 1000 s.sup.-1 has an apparent viscosity of from 40 to 200 mPa s, at a shear rate of 5 s.sup.-1 after a shear period of 10 s has an apparent viscosity of from 100 to 2000 mPa s and after a shear period of 300 s at a shear rate of 5 s.sup.-1 has an apparent viscosity of from 100 to 2000 mPa s, the measurements carried out at the shear rate of 5 sec.sup.-1 having been carried out directly after pre-shearing for 300 s at a shear rate of 1000 s.sup.-1, and the apparent viscosity measured at a shear rate of 5 s.sup.-1 after a shear period of 300 s being from 0 to 1000 mPa s higher than the apparent viscosity measured at a shear rate of 5 s.sup.-1 after a shear period of 10 s, and
• (ii) the repair carried out in step (2) is carried out with the aid of a spray application process in which a spray jet is produced comprising coating droplets, wherein
• at most 40% of the coating droplets passing a measurement point which lies at the center of the spray jet and 300 mm away from the nozzle have a diameter which is less than 20 .mu.m and at least 5% of the coating droplets passing this measurement point have a diameter which is greater than 60 .mu.m,
• at least 20% of the coating droplets passing a measurement point which lies at the center of the spray jet and 300 mm away from the nozzle have a speed which is less than 6 m/s and at most 30% of the coating droplets passing this measurement point have a speed of more than 10 m/s, and
• the coating droplets passing a measurement point which lies at the center of the spray jet and 300 mm away from the nozzle have a momentum which is equal to at least 4 10.sup.-5 g cm s.sup.-1,
• the diameter and the speed of the coating droplets having been determined with the aid of the Doppler phase anemometry method.