ordered custom paint job

christian370z

Everyone seems to thing that the OEM paint job is poor quality mostly because it has a fair amount of orange peel. If you don't want that orange peel, just do a bit of wetsanding to level off the peaks and then polish it to perfection and voila; show car paint quality.

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Rhinetom

I thought the colored paint was covered by the clear coat. If you wet sand, aren’t you only sanding the clear outer layer?

CBRich

The problem with this is that the OEM paint is extremely thin. I know wetsanding won't take much off but you've only got so much.

NXTAZEE

Our Z paint jobs are 5.0 mills thick, give or take 0.02. The most you could safely wet sand away is roughly 0.05. This would not flatten the paint and get rid of the orange peel. You would also leave no clear for paint correction either. I think it is outrageous manufactures are sending out cars with orange peel. With a little thicker clear and a wet sanding stage we could have beautiful paint. At least make it an option, which I for one would order.

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2010 Carbon Silver 370Z 7AT charcoal int. sports package | Clear Bra | Invidia Gemini CBE | CF B-Pillars | CF Fangs | CF Z emblems | Swift Springs | 20mm & 25mm Spacers | SPC Camber Arms | Brushed Aluminum shift knob