Anybody Else's Audi Have "orange peel"?
03-02-2005, 08:50 PM
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Anybody Else's Audi Have "orange peel"?
Orange peel meaning the wavy look your paint has rather than being a completely smooth surface.
I had heard that non-metallic colors had orange peel as a technique to add shimmer while metallics didn't since the paint had the added metallic.
So who has orange peel?
I had heard that non-metallic colors had orange peel as a technique to add shimmer while metallics didn't since the paint had the added metallic.
So who has orange peel?
03-03-2005, 09:15 AM
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I gotz plenty !!
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/27798/a6passengerside.1.jpg"></center><p>Look carefully under the passenger side mirror,where the yellow mazda is....orange peel galore
03-03-2005, 04:37 PM
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Yup same here.....I have both brilliant black (non-metalic)
and volcano black(metallic) cars, and both have about the same amound of orange peel. It is not as evident to see on the metalic, but it is definately there.
I agree on the BS told by the painter.
I agree on the BS told by the painter.
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Re: Orange Peel:
Unfortunely much more common than it should be if it was given a decent QA by OEM's
Orange Peel:
Orange Peel is paint film surface that has a dimpled appearance that paint takes on due to an equipment/operator caused defect. Like wrong paint-gun pressure and/or distance from panel, an operator not knowing how to set-up the equipment for that particular type of paint, or even a partly blocked paint-gun nozzle, improper pre-paint preparation and /or paint application, or uneven drying of the clear coat.
It is eliminated after the final shooting of clear coat by wet sanding the paint film surface, and polishing with a mildly abrasive polish and a high-speed rotary polisher.
JonM
Orange Peel:
Orange Peel is paint film surface that has a dimpled appearance that paint takes on due to an equipment/operator caused defect. Like wrong paint-gun pressure and/or distance from panel, an operator not knowing how to set-up the equipment for that particular type of paint, or even a partly blocked paint-gun nozzle, improper pre-paint preparation and /or paint application, or uneven drying of the clear coat.
It is eliminated after the final shooting of clear coat by wet sanding the paint film surface, and polishing with a mildly abrasive polish and a high-speed rotary polisher.
JonM