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CLASSVT

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Will wetsanding remove/reduce orange peel on paint? I noticed a panel of my car has orange peel, and I'm not sure what to do. I'm not sure whether to ask that the body shop fix it or just accept it as a good but not great paint job. They will most likely be wetsanding my car soon, to get rid of a little overspray that I found, and I am curious whether or not that may reduce the orange peel. It's wierd, this is one of the most reputable/established paint shops in Nashville from what I understand. Every time I go in there I see Porches, Jaguars, BMW's, and lots of old classic cars. But yet there has consistantly been issues needing fixed with my paint job. One thing I must say, is there is always the highest level of customer service and they never hesitate to try to make things right. But anyway, what do you think about the orange peel situation? Thanks in advance.
 
Wet sanding would be the appropriate method to address the orange peel... let them do it for you... you don't want to be the one to sand through the clearcoat by accident... while you could likely easily do it, let them do it since they painted it.

Another reason to get it wet sanded is that the orange peel on the repaired panel is a dead giveaway that it was repaired, so it would be nice to get that done so it all blends in.

With expensive paint jobs they often plan on wet sanding. Of course, this also means extra coats of paint and extra labor... but when you have a collector car, $10-40K in a paint job isn't unheard of... that's probably a little more than you spent getting your 'Tour painted.

Good luck!
 
I originally planned on letting them do the wetsanding, as I am afraid that I would mess something up. There were no repaired panels or anything like that. The whole car was repainted, but only a couple panels have orange peel. The insurance company paid for the paint job, and it wasn't cheap but certainly not $10k. I think it was about $4.5k. Thanks for the reply.:cool:
 
I certainly will. They know by now that I am very picky, and they have been nothing but helpful and courteous. Like I said they have great customer service, so I have complete faith that it will be made right.
 
For that money...I would expect they would have sanded it out already!

You can get Maaco to simply just shoot color for a couple hundred bucks.
 
I'm sure Maaco could do some decent paint jobs. But their "economical" paint jobs look like a$$. No clear coat or anything. But that still doesn't explain why you would suggest that I should go to Maaco. I don't need more paint, I need a little wetsanding. I will be going to the same paint shop for this service because they have excellent customer service.:cool:
 
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CLASSVT said:
Why would I get MAACO involved?:confused:
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Not my point...I wasnt suggesting going to Maaco.

My point was if I paid over 4 grand for a paint job, I would expect the shop to color sand orange peel out. Maybe not perfectly flat but certainly so it was not as noticable as your original post seemed to convey.

I did actually have Maaco shoot color on my old 69 VW bug back when I was in High Scool. Porsche Gaurds Red...could see that damn thing for miles it was so bright!

They did a decent job for $250 bucks. I would not let them paint my 86 XR4TI however. That job I did with my brother. Shooting paint is not the hard part. Prep and color sanding makes a great paint job.

We sprayed it in a day (long day...8 am til after midnight) and then I color sanded for the better part of a month. (working only 1 weekday eve and weekends)
 
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