Paint: Orange Peel all over the car

[King Tut]

All manufacturers have similar paint jobs. It is normal. You are going to have orange peel unless you color sand prior to clearing. No manufacturer does that. Some people are just more sensitive to it that others.

[BRZnut]

Originally Posted by Rausner

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

interesting video...he actually said that car manufacturers purposely have the orange peal to hide imperfections in the body panels! (I guess sort of like the reason for popcorn ceilings!)

[Mo707]

Going to check mine now...

[Mo707]

There is a piece of dust or something in my iPhone camera. Just a heads up. :P

[Skye]

Originally Posted by WillBRZ

Orange peel on my trunk as well...

You have a bug in your screen, did you put it there?

[Celicadude]

Orange peel is a problem on most modern car paints due to changes in paint solvents used during the painting process over the years. Its especially noticeable on darker colored cars. The only way to remove it is through wet sanding which i would not recommend anyone but a professional to do.

[dori.]

even though that seems like more than normal, I have not seen a single FR-S or BRZ that DIDN'T have some semblance of peel

[Gixxersixxerman]

I haven't heard a manufacter having orange peel to cover up imperfections.. Maybe it's true.. But the last sentence in that video is why mass produced cars and trucks have orange peel.. 200+ hours of wet sanding and polishing.. I've polished a freshly painted black car after wet sanding.. It's not for the novice at all.. I've seen cars come out from the same painter in a few different ways.. From really smooth and hardly any peel, to really bad.. I was a painters helper, so the masking and sanding and prep work was up to me, my first wet sand and polish job was a old jag in red, the hardest was that black Porsche 944.. But it was color sanded and then finally wet sanded.. It looked like black glass.. Hours and hours and hours.. But the end result was amazing looking

[JDM-dono]

Subaru inspector came to see my paint and the facts are as follows:

- The peel in the paint is within the quality standard and is similar to their demo BRZ

- There is nothing unusual in the paint texture that is different to their BRZ product

- He acknowledged there is more peel on boot and spoiler panels compared to the hood (despite saying initial there was nothing different about the paint on my car compared to their advertised product per demo)

- Issue remains unresolved and I am seeking an independent paint inspector

[RAWR BRZ]

Orange peel doesnt bother me unless it isnt uniformed.... In a way it covers manufacture paint defects (because you can never paint a car 100% perfect) and well.. yeah it doesnt bother me unless it is like one panel smooth and one panel orange peel

[JDM-dono]

Rear bumper has minimal peel, rear fender has a fair bit of peel. Visible difference going from one panel to another.

Uniform peel doesn't bother me. Non-uniform peel does.

[BRZerk]

mine has orange peel as well, but so did all the other cars I looked at... IDK what its all about. The Dealer said it was normal?

[Cameronghanson]

different pieces are actually painted in different locations...thats why if you look close the shade of paint on the plastic bumper is slightly different then the shade on the metal body work. Different locations have different specs as to what is tolerable. Especially with SWP

[n2oinferno]

Originally Posted by Cameronghanson

different pieces are actually painted in different locations...thats why if you look close the shade of paint on the plastic bumper is slightly different then the shade on the metal body work. Different locations have different specs as to what is tolerable. Especially with SWP

I believe the variance in the bumper and sheetmetal is because of the different surface being painted, as well as the bumper needing an adhesion promoter and flex additive mixed into the paint. Could be wrong though.