Dragonslayer 2

It appears that the paint shop QC was not in when they painted my 2017 Grand Sport Convertible. I have had it now for almost two weeks, and today, I finally took a look at the trunk since I was planning on doing a mod to the inner trunk lid that to me looks unfinished. Even my wife's Sonata has a nice fitted molded piece on the inner side of the trunk lid. So with the trunk closed, no issue. I never saw a paint defect. But open the trunk and take a good look at the edge, and there it was a three inch section that for some reason never was painted, and NO ONE caught it. Please see Picture #1. So then i said..........Do I bring it to the dealer?? I decided not to, and prepared to fix the unpainted section myself, since I did a lot of custom painting in the engine compartment, I figured I'd give it a try. So to anyone who has an Artic White car, for and sees a little section like mine on the trunk lid, for some reason, Rust-Oleum Appliance epoxy in white was a perfect match to the cars color. So picture # 2 is the paint repair completed.

\Boost Monkey/

Looks like it was black overspray from the inner piece, no?

hawkgfr

When I was at the factory a few years ago the paint inspection line was unmanned. I suspect its that way a lot...

\Boost Monkey/

I'm surprised to hear that such a line even exists in Bowling Green.

bbcb

cannot imagine what goes on and what is talked about by those employees at lunch time..they must laugh their ... off ...at who the heck would by this junk !!

Dragonslayer 2

Could be, but even that paint job of the black inner trunk lid sucks.

Kraz8s

It's been this way since day one. Mine was built in October of 2013, there are paint issue every where. Runs, unsprayed sections...meh.

Heck I went to the local dealer to check out a Black rose GS last month and the damn thing looked like a rush job.

As a long standing Union member myself, IBEW, I am not one bit surprised by this being such an issue

Always Red Dave

Nice job with the fix!

yeller z06

My car must have been a Monday build, and everyone was too tired and hung-over to do a lousy job, because I have no complaints with the paint quality.

Ramler

I've been to the factory and watched the inspection team. It is hard for me to see how any malfunction gets through that process. However, I did not see anyone inspecting the trunk. Everything else was crazy through. Water leak tests on verts is amazing.

Marcho Polo

My car had the exact same issue, but I just rubbed the black paint off. I took it to the dealer and showed them, and he is the one that showed me it just comes off rather easily. It is black overspray from underneath.

449er

What are you saying? Are you bad rapping unions or what?

dvilin

Same here, all good.

Gearhead Jim

Our Sept 2016 Long Beach Red has no thin spots, runs, etc.
But it has enough orange peel to make a citrus farm.

hawkgfr

So does 99.999999 percent of every other c7....and those that say they don't are blind. Mine was lumpy and wavy...

Gearhead Jim

Our 2006 and 2009 C6 were much better on the vertical surfaces.
All were/are ok on the horizontals.

alexsoo

Just looking at my car I had to get me some orange.

yeller z06

Orange peel is just a fact of life with these water-based paints, all cars have them (except those that are sanded between coats, like Ferrari, Aston Martin, Rolls, etc.) and so there's no point in crying over it.

As for the lumps and waves, that's the plastic body panels, not the paint.