Paint question?

[Webb70]

Every car company allows a certain amount of orange peel. It is measured with a Profilometer or with OP panels. Each plant has an exceptable number eg. Cadallac is(don't quote me) 9 (very glass like)minimum I believe. Pontiac is minimum 5, I'm not sure what HUMMER is. When I first got mine I measured it and mine is a 7 (very smooth). Mine was delivered the beginning of June and with all launches, the standards start off high and then they are brought back a little to help increase quotas. Being a Process Engineer in the paint department for GM, i was able to do many tests to mine to check for repainted panels, gloss, doi(destinction of image) and orange peel. I was VERY happy with all my results. Most of the results are better than I thought they would be, after looking at H1's in the showroom.

If you are not happy with the finish take it to the dealer and ask about having it buffed and polished. This will take out the orange peel effect, but if not done properly they could leave swirl marks or possibly damage the paint. If you know what you are doing you could claybar it as a friend of mine did with his H1 and the finish is now like glass.

* sorry about the bad spelling, I'm used to spellcheck.