Paint: Orange Peel all over the car
 

So I picked up my car on Monday 21st January and was excited to finally have the car after approximately 6 month wait. The day after, I had a better look at the car and found that it had really bad orange peel all over the car :cry:. (see attached images). This is a BRAND NEW car and I expected the paint quality to have minimal orange peel. But this is unacceptable. Has anyone experienced something like this with their 86/BRZ? How did you end up resolving this and what was the result?

I have contacted Subaru HQ regarding this matter and they've organised a paint specialist to inspect the paintwork next week. We'll see what happens from there...

Wow that looks like 20 year old chrysler paint... My paint looks nothing like that thank god! is that the trunk?

Yer that's the trunk..here's more pictures

I would ask for a new car or some money + a repaint, I have seen WRB and the Ultramarine's in persons, never seen one without high metallic flake. seems like the machine ran out of paint or something

I know it sounds crazy, but I've seen 3-4 FR-S' and a few BRZ's in person and each one of them had orange peel all over. I thought I was going crazy, but it seems to be common? I've noticed it on every one I've seen up close

I have heard from the bodyshop guy that almost new vehicles come with orange peel. He said according to the manufactures, the orange peel helps the resist the scratches. I dont know if thats true or not but fact is orange peel is very normal now days, especially with metallic paints, even my new mercedes has some orange peel

Came on mine.

Does the paint appear to have a orange peel texture or is it smooth with only the reflections revealing the orange peel?

Smooth clear on it, just has the orange peel look under the right light. It's one of those things I just live since this is still prettier than the drift car :P Came out all shiny when I tried out Adams this weekend.

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For my BRZ, the paint has a orange peel texture (more specifically the paint looks bumpy regardless of the light)...it's not even smooth

The clear on top of it is smooth.

Yup. That's what you'd expect.

Hope they fix it, that looks horrible. My SWP looks nothing like that.

I sure hope they fix it. I'm just extremely worried about the worse case scenarios ...

With the paint being as it is, the car just doesn't feel as special

I think we can all agree that Subaru's (and most other manufacturers) paint is terrible and fragile. My car (CBS) had a decent amount of orange peel when I picked it up. After a quick buff, the paint was like glass. Judging by the photos, however, your car is slightly worse. I really hope you get it fixed, best of luck!