Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

[Sherif]

Hi Guys,

I just had my black 2010 Tahoe repainted, left hand side, rear bumper+rear panel (between rear door and rear bumber)+ rear door However, I noticed the following problems:

1- The shine of the paint (when you look from sides) is too wavy than other parts of the car panels.
2- The paint or the clear coat, it has some black/brown marks, something like marks from a back and forth dampened wipes that was left to dry. Whenever I try to wipe it off, it does not go, it stays.
3- The driver door, that was not painted, got some light white strips, apparantly beside the cover tape, and I assume some of the paint spray or its residues got to this door.

Dealers here in the middle east are not that professional, and they did not give me a satisfying answer, so I thought maybe my answers are here.

Appreciate your input, are there any solutions for these problems?

Thanks,
Sherif

[Markus Kleis]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

Sounds like a lousy paint job from what you described, and sadly, most of that likely can't be fixed with detailing.

Are you able to share pictures with us?

[thepanchmx]

I agree some pics to tell you what is going on

[Sherif]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

I think I can't unless I have posted 10 or more threads.

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

Sherif, you should be able to upload images to our gallery and then post from there, regardless the number of posts you have.

As for the repaint on your Tahoe, it sounds like the painter created a lot of orange peel on the panels he painted, which would easily explain the waviness you describe. Some orange peel is very common in factory paint, regardless of brand, but a really good painter should be able to match that level of orange peel when he paints. It is possible, at least theoretically, to diminish this heavy orange peel by wet sanding and compounding. But in order to do so, you have to have enough clear coat present to safely sand away a good portion of it, and of course you need someone pretty skilled in both wet sanding and compounding to do it right. This is not a process for a novice, and not the place to learn how to do it. All the YouTube videos you can watch aren't quite the same as hands on training!

The other issues you describe sound like just plain sloppy work. We've seen hand prints in paint jobs, very heavy orange peel, extremely thin coverage in some areas, heavy overspray onto plastic trim, horrible attempts at color matching, and all kinds of other issues that can only be fixed by starting over. We'd love to see some pictures showing these other problems you mentioned to get a better idea of just what you're dealing with.

[Sherif]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

Thanks all, thanks Michael. I posted some pics in http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums...2724&protype=1, as you recommended. Image 35901 contains those black/browns wipes. I tried as much as possible to make them clear, I am not sure if you guys can spot them. I really need to know from where do these weird stains come from?

Thanks,
Sherif

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

Other than the level of orange peel, which is painfully obvious in your pictures, it's hard to see the black/brown swipes you've mentioned. But in this shot there's a very hard line differentiating clear paint and what looks sort of cloudy on the front door. This looks like a tape line with overspray on the left side. Does the cloudy looking area feel rough to your bare hand? It really looks like a poor masking job that allowed paint overspray to get under the masking paper and get onto this panel. An aggressive clay should take care of this, but if the over spray is heavy enough it could be fairly tedious to deal with. Sometimes compounding will remove it, too, but that usually means compounding with a rotary buffer, wool pad and something like M105. If you're not comfortable with a rotary, don't try this!

[stanclub]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

I think the wavy paint that you are referring to is on the door panels, right? If the door panel has been repaired with bodywork, then it might be a wavy panel due to inproper sanding; if the door was repainted in good shape without bodywork done, then that is urethane wave in clear. The way to find out is to sand the clear with long flat block to see if you can spot any low spot. If yes, then the panel need to be repaired and repainted again. If not, then you need to sand more clear out, with long firm block, to eliminate wave. Either way, it is more than an average car owner can handle.

The brown/black marks can't really be seen in your picture, but what you mention sounds like the tack cloth wipe mark on color coat right before clear been sprayed on. The marks are under the clear coat, so no matter what you do, you can't make it go away. Once again, another repaint panel.

The light white strips in your picture is the clear coat overspray. If you have a DA polisher, you can wet sand the strip with P2500 to remove it, then polish the panel back to shine with DA and good compound.

[Sherif]

Re: Car Repaint Job, with some problems !

Yes, there has been a few bodywork done before it was repainted.

Thanks all, given your comments and feedback I took it today to the dealer, with the info given here. I showed them all these areas of deffects. The info given here from you gave me confidence while explaining to them and accordingly they took the car again for a rectification job. I am not sure how it will look like afterwards.

Will update you.

Thanks again to all of you.