Originally Posted by RollingRock

Blue150, I really hate to keep going back and fourth with you here. But MOST paints on modern cars are going to have some orange peel. Even high end cars like Jags, BMW's etc.

It's put there on purpose to hide some of the imperfections of sheet metal.

The effect of Orange Peel is dependent on many factors when applied at the factory. Temp, Humidity etc.

I can show you many different cars/brands with Orange Peel. I take close ups of every car I work on.

Here is a picture of a 65K BMW door


Tell me what brand of car this is? (the white one)


Hint, its 1/3 the price of the 65K BMW.

I think I would take Attworth up on his apprenticeship offer.

Originally Posted by cufootn

Is that Miller Lite?

Originally Posted by cufootn

Is it just me or are we lacking in the "full detail with pics" department lately? I wanna see some detailed paint!!!!! I know people need to know what crap to use but lets take some pictures of this stuff.

Originally Posted by cufootn

I really think you could have won attworths contest of "pros post a pic of you truck right now" I was going to but I wasn't on the list of pros and I work at a coal power plant and it rained that day so my truck looked like an oreo cookie.

Originally Posted by cufootn

Is it just me or are we lacking in the "full detail with pics" department lately? I wanna see some detailed paint!!!!! I know people need to know what crap to use but lets take some pictures of this stuff.

Originally Posted by RollingRock

LOL

But according to Tony I am no pro either. That little bastard.....

Originally Posted by attworth

Blue - You may not have noticed the orange peel because your paint was too far gone on the Jetta. Before JP did my truck, he thought it had the best paint of "any Ford made." After we detailed it, I never heard that again, and I started noticing the orange peel really badly. Correct me if I'm wrong JP, but since the imperfections are gone, it's really easy to see the only one that's non-correctable (orange peel.)

Trust what JP (RollingRock,) says - he's a very smart guy.

Originally Posted by RollingRock

Yeah your paint was pretty damn good for Ford, JWools and your's are pretty darn close in quality. For sure two of the best paints I've seen. My brother has two Rovers, they have pretty good paint too. But still have Orange Peel on them.

As for being smart. Oh go on....

Originally Posted by Blue150

I finally found pics of my old Jetta's. I thought i had lost them all when I moved my website but I finally found and old backup. I guess I was brand loyally blind. They do in fact have orange peel. God as my witness, I never saw it. Most of my vehicles have been black and my Jetta was pearl coat over black. Maybe that made it less noticeable and so I never noticed it but it had it none the less.

So, as a result, I will not be trying to get rid of the orange peel off my truck. I will however take better care of the truck than i did the car since the truck is a purchase and I like it better than the car.

Originally Posted by Blue150

That reminds me. I was at the store the other day and found Rolling Rock beer. Is it any good? I notice you drink Miller as well and I am not a big fan of Miller. I was very close to buying some RR, kind of wish I had now. You near Dallas? I ain't above buying a case of beer!