Paint: Orange Peel all over the car

[FRSFirestorm]

My FR-S is similar. Most new automobiles have some amount of orange peel. In general any paint job will orange peel. The only correction that I am aware to completely eleminate it is to color/wet sand and buff the car.

I did it to my last factory painted project. Luckily there was enough clear that it went well and looked great.

I'm waiting to see how much clear is on these vehicles before I decide to attempt a color sand on the FR-S.

[jadewbj]

That is definitely more that I would accept. My car required some paint correction before the opti but nothing like that.

[BioRage]

[Ryephile]

Originally Posted by JDM-dono

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?

It does look bad, but orange peel is the name of the game for all manufacturers these days. GM has the most notorious reputation, especially with the Corvette. Hopefully Subaru can make it right, but chances are they'll just bring it to a detail shop and they'll wheel it down.

[Rausner]

Look at this video of Koenigseggs paintjobs. Christian von Koenigsegg mentions the part about excessive orange peel on most manufacturers new cars today:

[hypermax]

Originally Posted by Sac-BRZ

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

I agree, I don't have problem with the SWP, but I do want to perform a wet sand for my car.

[jkonquer]

Ill try to buff it and see if that works. Whenever u get new paint job buffing makes it night and day

[JesseE]

I wouldn't touch it until they inspect it

[Calin]

I also have a WRB BRZ and have orange peel on my trunk and spoiler. It's strane how it's only those 2 panels that have orange peel, and the rest of the car is fine.

[WillBRZ]

Orange peel on my trunk as well...

[Calin]

Why is that? I wonder why only the trunk has a problem.

[JDM-dono]

Originally Posted by JesseE

I wouldn't touch it until they inspect it

Car has only traveled the distance from dealership to my house (ie collection). It's been sitting in the garage ever since....

My trunk and rear spoiler is particularly bad. The hood is slightly less but still pretty bad peel. I wonder if it's just the WRB BRZ suffering from this. Also what was the build date of your cars? Mine was built mid-December

[Calin]

Originally Posted by JDM-dono

Also what was the build date of your cars? Mine was built mid-December

Mine was built in November.

[Turbowned]

That definitely seems like more orange peel than normal. Subarus do have pretty crappy paint and they all have orange peel but yours seems like more than even I'm used to seeing, and I work at a dealer.

On one WRX we had you could actually see the lines from where the sprayer laid down the paint. It was that thin. I would've flipped out about that, personally. I've actually thought about taking my car to be wetsanded immediately after receiving it to try and reduce the orange peel.

You should definitely bring it up with your dealer if you're unhappy. Maybe Subaru will do something about it. At least I hope!