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Originally Posted by 80Zedder
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Originally Posted by Warghost
I was going to mention that also. I have two friends who have both purchased GM trucks in the past year, and both vehicles have bad orange peel. It's apparent in these pictures as well. How can a huge company like GM not fix an issue as serious as this? They must know!
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Actually to be honest my last post was a ribbing on 2 friends i worked with in the paintshop who are on this board.
The orangepeel effect ou see is on all GM vehicles.
It's on all Ford,dodge,toyota, nissan etc etc
It has nothing to do with GM as Gm does not make the paint. Our trucks get sprayed with PPG paint and our cars with Dupont. We have one to a powder primer and waterbased paint, which may have something to do with it. Short of colorsanding every vehicle you will always have that effect. So until Dupont and PPG figure out a way to eliminate it, we will always see it. |
Okay, sorry to be a spoiler here, but my '06 Silverado DOES NOT have any orange peel. Neither did my '99 Silverado, my '03 Tahoe, or our latest '08 Enclave. I don't remember seeing any on my wife '97 Avenger, or our '00 Grand Cherokee either.
And, before anyone else tries to tell me that I'm full of it and just didn't see it....I was in the detail department for years. I clean my own cars just like I'm still in the detail department (although it's a little depeleted right now, a couple cabinets in my garage look like I stole them straight out of the dealerships detail shop...don't send out any black suburbans....lol). I know what orange peel is, I know how to look for it, and I even know how to fix it when I see it. I don't have any and haven't had any on my cars. Just lucky? Doubt it. Does it happen? Sure, but I don't think it happens all that often any more. For any manufacturer, not just GM.