Originally posted on Corvetteforum- The owner of this gorgeous Corvette asked me to document all the damage on the car and do a write up. Since I haven't been doing a lot of click and brags lately, I figured I woudl share it here.
I was contacted by Corvette forum member 14vision who was disappointed with the quality of the work performed on his Corvette and was hoping to have the car look as good as it should.
A quick background on the Corvette. It is a 2007 roadster that was brought to Orlando to have a Caravaggio body kit installed and painted. The car was "detailed" and returned to South Florida. To say the work performed was bad could be an understatment. The car had numerous sanding marks that where incorrectly polished or not polished at all. There was also numerous dust particles or "nibs" in the paint that they had failed to sand.
Also, not only where the sanding marks incorrectly buffed out, but the car had severe, moderate, and mild hologramming across the entire surface of the paint. Also above the tail lights, on the edge of the bumper, was some light burning from the polishing done at the dealership.
Also, we noticed that the sides did not have any sanding marks but they did have holograms. They also had huge amounts of orange peel, and a lot of "nibs" or dirt in the paint and a couple runs. This leads me to believe that no sanding was done on the vertical panels, and no correction of the defects was done from the painting. Even though there is more orange peel because of the lack of sanding on the sides, at least they didn't screw up anything on the sides to bad.
Stories are always better with pictures...
Initial Inspection showed buffer trails (to be expected from any body shop)
However in numerous area's, the paint showed deeper (thicker) defects that turned out to be sanding marks in the paint that where incorrectly sanded and further more incorrectly removed with a polisher.
The arrows are pointing at the deeper, thicker defects...
This picture is out of focus because I was trying to pull the focus on the actual surface of the paint instead of the deeper (and further away) reflections. If you look closely, you can "see" the texture of the paint because of the terrible sanding techniques.
Another picture of the "texture" or sanding scratches on the paint.
Same picture with light blue "highlights" to help show the sanding marks.
We started to mark all area's with the sanding marks with blue tape.
In this picture, which is the same as the above, I highlighted the visible defects.
And in this picture, I highlighted what the surface truely resembled in person.
I adjusted the shutter speed on the camera and was able to better capture some of the defects.
As you can see, even the areas that did not recieve blue tape (to denote sanding marks) had signifcant marring.
The edge of the hood was particularly bad (you can see the severe hologramming to right)
Hurry, we need more blue tape!
And more...
Here is a reflection picture of the hood. Notice the lack of orange peel.
Here is the reflection of the side of the car (notice the heavy orange peel)
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