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Not 100% Joel. My mate was a spray painter for about 15 years so I'll ask him next time I see him, but I think it'd be either bad prep work, spraying it on too dry (not enough paint), or done in a too humid room...

I fell for you cause it may be off the road for a while for it to get fixed :)

Please name the paintshop that did this work, and delete all personal comments from your post. That way it's not defamation, and SAU cannot get in trouble.

That's some top notch work!

Will do Merli.

I am waiting for the thread title to be changed to remove the word Bodgy.

I was just adjusting the doors as they were hanging out too much. Now they are nice and flush. I've also noticed a big arsed run under the left hand door handle. :rant: It goes for around 5cm's.

The more I look the more I find when will it end.. :rofl:

I really want to find out how orange peel is created so I sound like I know what I am talking about. Those pillars were apparently sprayed on too dry.

That would have to be the very worse paint job I've ever seen.

I would go straight to the paint shop and complain, then I would go to the TWO BEST paint shop that you know of, get them to quote to repair the fcuked up paint.

Take them as ammo to the paint shop who did the sub-standard job and they don't fix it up properly (with you checking the work everyday) you should then take the quotes to a law firm who deal strickly with this type of thing.

Let the panel shop know that they can't get away with it.

BASS OUT

PM me for the name of a law firm who do this stuff if required.

the paint has been applied to dry in most areas,too much thinners could have been put in the paint,it actually looks like acrylic paint.Most of it could be rectified by blocking down and buffing it up and the runs could be shaved off with a razorblade.The tape off lines cant be repaired without re painting.Paint with Orange peel can also be blocked down and buffed to a uniform finish.There are diffrent types of orange peel,yours is the dry type.Factory vehicles have a nice even peel running through them which is what you want to replicate when doing a repair.To get a true dead glassy look the car needs to be flow coated,check my post on vehicles repair for this process,or to get a flat smooth look rub down with 1200 and buff back but this looks a little too "false" for my liking.Too large air cap and nozzle set will cause exccesive coarse peel on 2K products due to the material hasnt had much air added to it and in no way can atomize correctly.Large caps and nozzles are for acrylic and hi fills....oh and a crap operator will also get excessive orange peel...sorry to crap on

this is pathetic but i have seen worse

it is for this reason that the panel shop industry is going dying

these days its all about quick turnover time and who can do the job the quickest and the cheapest

it honestly makes me sick to see how careless some workshops are after being brought up around my uncles who are perfectionists and took absoloutly no shortcuts and did everyjob as if it were their own car i just cannot believe thigs like this actually happen regularly.

I'm waiting for the mods to edit the thread title.

Thanx ylwgtr2. :)

To me it looks like there is two different types of orange peel.

The really crappy looking one is on the front pillars, the front bumper is bad also.

The doors and guards now have a strange orange peel look that wasn't there before. Basically it doesn't have that mirror look instead wobbly :D

The roof, bonnet and boot is like mirror. No waves nothing, strange it is on the top surfaces where it is nice. :)

Wow, the runs down the side there are particularly nasty, mind you I find anything less than a paintjob done by 10 robots in the original factory annoying, but all the same, that is dodgy. Don't envy your situation, I'd feel violated, I mean I think my car would feel 'dirty' to me.

Not good, hope it works out for ya.

How much did they rob you for that work?

Print out this thread and take it down there and show them what a bunch of other car enthusiasts think of the work.

Tell them that if they dont repair it immediately and make the entire car look like it came out of the factory you will release the name of their company onto this forum of tens of thousands of car enthusiasts; they can use their imagination on the consequences this will have on their business.

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