Horrible Factory Paint 😡 Two step correction and ceramic coating

[Gr8ful]

I have the rare iconic silver and after clay barring I only found a small dab of paint on the trunk lower edge. I have bought 67 new cars and I rate this good, thin but good. Not BMW650 or Porsche 911S good but Ford good.
My $.02 worth.

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[DFB5.0]

ripples and orange peel add character

As strange as this might sound, a very prominent American detailer with decades of experience says that orange peel in paint is actually a good thing, suggesting that it tends to hide imperfections much better than completely flat/flawless paint. So on something like a Mustang, with its widely variable build quality, some orange peel is not the end of the world.

 

[Q6543]

I work in paint shop, orange peel is literally part of the process for reasons stated above.
Ford is far more worried about any sealer being left in a visible spot or finger and handprint's getting baked in and painted, also issues with drips, runs, excessive dirt, boil outs, bad phosphate etc…

Awesome spec BTW… black dark horses look so damn mean!

 

[noac]

Show car quality pant jobs with no orange peel are painted knowing that the car will be wet sanded and polished down to a mirror shine. Lots of material is laid down providing sacrificial layers for the “correction” process. OEM paints are not sprayed with this process in mind. To remove orange peel from factory paint is horrible. You are just literally stripping clear coat off the car. Orange peel also allows for better UV protection.. Buying a new car and having it agressively paint corrected is short sighted and not beneficial if long term ownership is the goal.

 

[Tuxonspeed]

Show car quality pant jobs with no orange peel are painted knowing that the car will be wet sanded and polished down to a mirror shine. Lots of material is laid down providing sacrificial layers for the “correction” process. OEM paints are not sprayed with this process in mind. To remove orange peel from factory paint is horrible. You are just literally stripping clear coat off the car. Orange peel also allows for better UV protection.. Buying a new car and having it agressively paint corrected is short sighted and not beneficial if long term ownership is the goal.

Which would be exactly why I measure paint thickness before hand and also didn’t go super aggressive with the correction.

 

[noac]

Cool….less is more when dealing with factory paint, which is exactly the OEM’s mentality when painting them.

 

[Tuxonspeed]

Cool….less is more when dealing with factory paint, which is exactly the OEM’s mentality when painting them.

Not sure I agree there. Paint thickness has drastically decreased over the years. Seems more like they can save a ton of money

 

[Billycar11]

i take it as taking less paint off is better is what he's saying
your both agreeing

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