Weird clearcoat effect/orange peel on my car. Help?

[chopper82p]

Front end of car was repainted before I bought it to repair rock chips. The clearcoat has some weird orange peel effect on it. Its a 2003 BMW M5 Imola Red. The owner told me part of it wasn`t wetsanded but he was a little vague.

on to the pics:



hood:



http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/1...39796055_o.jpg



fender:



http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3686/1...89082a0a_h.jpg



and trunk:



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7336/1...4ab7c544_h.jpg



Can this be wetsanded or does it require a reapint?

[rdorman]

First, a tree in the reflection doesn`t help. But unless my eyes are deceiving me........ OM MY G! That has got to be on of the worst I have ever seen. No idea if is can be sanded out or not but I know what I would do... the same thing to the guy that shot the car. Terrible. I have an Imola 7 Series and it looks nothing, nothing at all like that. I had to go back and look one more time..... poor M5.



Imola on my car:

[Dellinger]

Dirt in the gun, Overspray GALORE, Runs... wow. Orange Peel would be my least worry.

[Guru17]

+1 to the above. There are worse problems there than an orange peel. Yes, it can be wetsanded provided you have enough clearcoat thickness there, but I would suggest sand it down completely and get it painted correctly again.

[Richard Grasa]

You`ve got a shrink back issue. `The body work (or prep work if no bodywork was done) wasn`t properly finished out before the primer was sprayed onto it, it was finished with too coarse of sandpaper. `The primer has now shrunk back into the deep sanding scratches and pulled the base and clear back with it, which is why you can now see the sanding scratches. `If there is enough clear it may be able to be wetsanded level and polished out. `No way to tell how much clear is on there, even with a paint thickness gauge at this point as there are now multiple layers of paint and/or body filler. I would try wetsanding first, would be alot cheaper than a respray. `But be ready to get it resprayed if you break through the clear.

[David Fermani]

I would have to say that these issues are not just from repairing some mild rock chips. This is a combination of terrible prep & refinish application. It cannot be repaired and needs to be repainted. I`d address this concern with the seller/prior owner and tell him that he misled you and you are not happy.`

[C. Charles Hahn]

Agreed with David; it looks as though there are multiple types of issues with the finish, not the least of which are sanding tracers mapping through the topcoats. Unfortunately the only proper repair is a respray.

[RaskyR1]

Lots of issues there, some of which can be improved. Persoanlly, I would look at wet sanding them first before going right to a repaint, you may find that you`ll be more than happ with the results.


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Some paint shirk examples improved with wet sanding.





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[dghjtyjian]

You`ve got a shrink back issue.

[dcghkfdjkjian]

Can this be wetsanded or does it require a reapint?

[xfgjdtykjian]

<span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:`helvetica neue`, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You`ve got a shrink back issue`