yeahh pm me if anything

 

4 hours....where's the shop located bro?

 

Tijuana, Remember?

 

Dang, Bako to Tijuana in 4 hours. Hehe, sounds like a good run!

 

I would like to remove some orange peel from my car too...

 

This is the first time i heard tc factory paint have orange peel.

 

It does... I have a SW and I can see orange peel where the body meets the C pillar on OEM paint.

 

I heard that you need to use 1200 grit and wetsand the clear, then wetsand again w/ 2000 grit. I was just watching the SPEED network and they were modding a challenger and gave it a new paint job. They wetsanded it after the final clear coat to get the "orange peel" out, then they polished and waxed it.

 

Sand papers color has nothing to do with it, sand paper can come in any color under the rainbow. And 1000 to 1500 is not a size, its GRIT. Size is the measurement of somethings shape, not how rough it is.

 

i noticed it on my SW a couple weeks after i bought it

 

you can't fully eliminate orange peel. the best you can do is reduce it. even some cars at auctions...the ones that have the paint and shine where it looks 10 miles deep, they have very little orange peel.

 

ok look I'm in the automotive industry (work at a body shop), first off if its very bad lots of heavy orange peel take it back and make them fix it, second off from the sound of it you have probably never used a buffer before, in that case take it to a detail shop or back to where it was painted, I'll tell you what they'll do but just so you know even new cars have orange peel


first off they will start wet sanding with 1500 grit, clean the car really well and then move on up to 3000 grit, after 3k grit they will use compound and a buffer thats turning at around 3500 rpm and buff the entire car, then they'll move to polish and a fresh pad and buff the car again, this takes about 80% of the swirl marks out, then most will run a special wax meant to be used with a buffer(meaning it works best at 3500+ rpm) and will go over the car one more time, then they'll clean the car


how long ago was it painted, I hope they told you not to wax it for atleast 6 months after the painting

 

every car has orange peel, doesn't matter how much time the painter spends shooting the clear, or what quality/brand the clear is, its always there, cars that are painted by machine (all but the most expensive) have it, its just how the clear lays, infact cars that sell at baret(sp?) jackson have a good deal of orange peel, and over spray, if you restore a car and want it to look original, you cover the engine and spray the outside with all the panels on, you want paint blowing through the cracks to replicate how it was painted at the factory

 

tC's have a good amount from the scion factory as well...if you go out and look closely at your paint on an angle with the right lighting/shadowing you will notice it a good amount