How Much Orange Peel Do You Have?

[backwoods lex]

I'm trying to figure out if my whole car has been repainted. The sides of the vehicle (all of the doors and both front and rear fenders) all have orange peel, but the hood, roof, and trunk do not. I've read before that Lexus wetsands their cars at the factory, but I'm wondering how much or if this is normal for everyone else. It is a very light amount that is hard to notice unless you knew what to look for--wouldn't be worth sanding to me.

My car's hood also has a strange paint defect. It is gold metallic, but in the center there seems to be a lack of gold color, like it fades to black. Again, hard to notice unless you know what you are looking for. Any ideas guys?

[Derry]

have none on mine,, slick as ya could ever want it to be...

[dcfish]

have none on mine,, slick as ya could ever want it to be...

No orange peel on my cars. B)

[TOGWT]

Orange Peel- is paint film surface that has a dimpled appearance that paint takes on due to an equipment/operator caused defect. Like wrong paint-gun pressure and/or distance from panel, an operator not knowing how to set-up the equipment for that particular type of paint, or even a partly blocked paint-gun nozzle, improper pre-paint preparation and /or paint application, or uneven drying of the clear coat.

It is eliminated after the final shooting of clear coat by wet sanding the paint film surface, and polishing with a mildly abrasive polish and a high-speed rotary polisher.

Correction- it can also be removed by wet-sanding (colour sanding)

If this is a new car you might have a warrenty issue, see your dealership

Knowledge; [ability to correctly diagnosis problems] [utilizing appropriate methods / products to solve them]

[lexus411]

simple way to tell if a lexus has been repainted. Run your finger on the inside of any body panel, door , etc. You should feel no paint seems.

[dcfish]

simple way to tell if a lexus has been repainted. Run your finger on the inside of any body panel, door , etc. You should feel no paint seems.

Just not so simple to get to the inside of any body panel.

[greggebhardt]

My LS460 has one of the nicest paint jobs I have even had on any vehicle

[TOGWT]

OP is not specific to vehicle marque, Ford, MB, Porsche, Lexus, et al, but varies according to some or all of the reasons stated in my prior post

{Knowledge; don't ever stop learning; [always keeping an open mind]

[lexus411]

by inside , I mean the lip inside of any fender or panel . Easily accessible when you open the hood or trunk lid.

[BMWWW]

If your car is 'relatively' new, and you can 'learn to live with it', I definitely wouldn't wet-sand the clear.

Reason being? Sometimes it's 'really' hard to determine just how severe the OP is, and whether it's severe or not, it will definitely compromise the clearcoat; which may lead to premature clearcoat failure.

Definitely not a DIY-job.

Good luck!

--Gabe