Orange peel is on just about every new vehicle now a days. Just look at the number of vehicles that are painted everyday. My plant paints about 650 superdutys per shift, 3 shifts a day, so roughly 1950 trucks a day. With that many trucks going through the spray booths management will not allow time to wet sand and buff each and every vehicle. I sprayed for a little over 4 years and can tell you the trucks fly through the booths. We were also told that orange peel helps to hide minor blemishes in the metal from the stamping process.

 

That it does... if you take a sheetmetal bed and closely look down the sides of it.. you will see waves