Especially starting with the C5's and up!
Disappointing Paint
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Disappointing Paint
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.
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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.
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It varies. I can notice the orange peel on my car but I honestly never even looked at it until people started to mention it. To me, it looks like the paint on most other vehicles. It doesn't bother me at all.
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Edit: Maybe they should allow you to order it unpainted and have your own paint job done if they're not capable of pulling off a paint job without the orange peel.
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Not all of them for sure because I saw my first one 3 weeks ago a Cyber Grey C7 and there's no way I would even think of buying it with that much OP in the paint...just like the post above looked awesome from 20 feet away but when you stood next to the car it was very noticeable and disappointing.
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The Vette has more than other cars, even other Chevy models, period.
The horizontal surfaces are ok, the vertical surfaces are atrocious. After 20 hours of working on mine, wet sanding and polishing, it's passable now, but still not a Lexus paint job.
The horizontal surfaces are ok, the vertical surfaces are atrocious. After 20 hours of working on mine, wet sanding and polishing, it's passable now, but still not a Lexus paint job.
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They are capable, but not at a cost people would like for a mass produced car. Would involve hand labor and / or using (less durable) lacquer paint. There are always trade offs. You can't have your cake and eat it too!