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Does anyone have any opinions on the paint?

I think it's in *reasonable* condition considering nothing has ever been done to it before. I know the orange peel is pretty horrendous. Luckily it doesn't seem to be bad on the hood and a few other "high visibility" panels, but it's horrendous on a few of the door panels.
 
Paint looks pretty good, but to see the true condition of the paint you gotta find a good light source, the sun is not a good choice for very light colors from what I've experienced. You need more of a dim flashlight.
 
Now see, that's what I was thinking. Everything I kept reading was sun was best. I have a flashlight... and I have a truck sitting outside (night shift!). Be back in a few.
 
You also have to focus on something that shows the swirls. I have a SLR and manual focus is key to getting good shots for me.

I have a tiny car and I use one pad, just clean it after each panel after the first. Maybe I need to start using my other ones I have.
 
I think I was able to see them in the sun just a bit better, but here's what I got.

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David,

I'm rockin a flashlight and an iPhone, that's all I've got to work with at the moment. I tried to take shots where I had it focus on the light source. The paint in person honestly looks pretty much like these shots.

Even a full round of V36, V38 with the pads we discussed isn't going to do much/anything for the orange peel though right?

I always thought that the metal flake paints were the "shiniest", but now seeing what some of you all can do with standard color paints almost makes the fleck seem limiting? That said, I think it does allow a little bit of freedom.

-S
 
I did a full polish about two years ago on my silver car. turns out it actually had a yellow tint to it. I was shocked at how much clearer the paint looked. Take a picture of your finger tip against the paint using the flash of the phone/camera alone and see what happens. If it wasn't drizzling here I'd try and snap a few example shots. Unless you are truly happy with the shots, if so you've done a great job of keeping it maintained!

I'll let someone else comment on the orange peel. I've only dealt with it a few times and I just don't mess with it since it usually needs wet sanding. There might be a way to polish it out that I don't know about.(Being optimistic)
 
David,

I'll give that a shot in a bit. Supposed I should get at least a little "real" work done tonight. I did wipe out my door jams and do all the black plastic on the vehicle already.

Considering in my BAGO (Before AGO) life I admit to having sent her through maybe a dozen automatic-swirl-inducers and I never did anything but hand-wash at the local car wash I actually think the paint does look pretty remarkable. I'll see if I can't get something a little closer to reality, but I'm pretty serious when I say that real-life isn't much more than maybe 10% worse than the photos.

Thanks for all your great comments
 
Metallic Grays are incredibly difficult to show swirls and marks with artificial light in my opinion, similar to silver and white.
 
af90 said:
Metallic Grays are incredibly difficult to show swirls and marks with artificial light in my opinion, similar to silver and white.
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that would work in my favor most of the time I suppose.
 
hernandez.art13 said:
^ What did you seal the paint with?
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I didn't. When I said the truck was one owner I meant "basically". I suppose the guy who had it a few months before I did may have done something to it? Or the dealer? How would I know? How would that affect my plan of attack for this upcoming week?

Thanks for raising the question. I didn't do it, so I never even thought to think maybe it was done?
 
hernandez.art13 said:
I like this clip (I'm sure it always varies)

Paul Dalton shows how & why to wax a car - YouTube
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Thanks for the video. In the almost two years(ish?) I've owned this vehicle I personally have waxed it twice, so about once a year. It always beads quite nicely after that, but definitely doesn't after several months of wear and tear. If it doesn't bead consistently without a fresh coat of wax we can assume it's not coated?
 
hernandez.art13 said:
Your paint will speak to you
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I've noticed that's true, but unfortunately for now it's speaking a language I don't understand.

I'm an Engineer. Have any slightly more objective measures?

Thanks again fr the input and help you've provided so far.
 
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