Appearance is one of the criteria forming the aesthetic perception of a particular vehicle. However, the appearance of the car is a factor determining the consumers’ opinion about the brand of the car. Many vehicles during their operation for many different reasons undergo repair and restoration operations. As a rule, repairing body elements the paintwork is performed, the quality of which and the observance of technologies and standards during work ultimately determine the durability of the paintwork. The quality of the paintwork, the presence of damage, fragments of destruction is one of the essential aspects that interest consumers in the secondary market. The article presents the results of a study of the paintwork quality of the Volkswagen Tuareg car body elements; the presence of defects is identified, the causes of their occurrence are detected.

The paper considers the machines used for flax layer-thinning during its processing. The designs of the most widely used layer-thinning machines of Russian, Belarusian and foreign production in the linen industry are analyzed. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the machines of both Russian and Belarusian production have the principle of the thinning with a fixed layer, and some foreign ones with free fixation.