Disappointing Paint
Melting Slicks
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Here's a neat video I watched that talks about how a Koenigsegg is painted...you can clearly see why those cars cost as much as they do. The entire "Inside koenigsegg" youtube series is actually pretty awesome if you are bored and want to see how a million dollar supercar is born. The paint one basically states that each car gets 200 hours of paint work to get the finish they want and it's all done by hand.
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Robot Paint
I spent a lot of years in the Oshawa truck plant as a tool and die maker. The trucks have been water base/clear coat painted with robots for many years. When the engineers and maintenance people got their heads together and got the robots set up right, orange peel was minimal. Even so, the paint was not always consistant in colour or consistency. A friend of mine, worked in reject doing paint repairs. It was a constant job to match up repair paint to what was on the vehicle, even from the start of the shift to later in the shift. There will always be some orange peel unless the whole body is colour sanded. It's just the nature of base/clear as mentioned in an earlier post. Keeping paint consistent is a constant job and nearly impossible to keep right all the time no matter how hard they try. Black shows everything. Our silver '05 looks quite good to me at least. If I weren't happy, I would gladly pay to have the finish colour sanded and polished. That always makes a paint job jump out at you if done by a pro.
Last edited by Keith Tedford; Mar 21, 2014 at 03:10 PM.
Burning Brakes
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I said you were funny. I would think the weight of the paint matters too, just like everything else they do to save weight. It all adds up. I would guess the three coats of paint and clear coat would weight at least ten pounds on a C7.
Does anybody know the answer to this?
Does anybody know the answer to this?
front fender itself.
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While at my Chevy dealer today I looked at a nice black C-7 convertible. The car looked great but up close the paint really had a lot of orange peel. The Impala next to it had a much better paint job. This was my first up close look at a 2014. Is this typical of the paint process now in use? The C5 and C6 paint quality in my opinion is higher than what I saw on the new car.
Orange peel is quite evident on every new Corvette I've seen.
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ALWAYS HAS BEEN called ORANGE PEEL! because the bumps look like an ORANGE PEEL!
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