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Mine doesn't look great right around the driver's door handle. So I get to see it all the time. I did a dealer trade to get the color I wanted - I doubt my dealer would do anything about it.
As a painter of 24 years. I would never allow that to leave my shop looking like that. There are a couple reasons it may look that bad in comparison to others the same color.
It was mentioned that a good detailer could possibly fix this. That is true. They would have to wet sand and buff it. The problem is that it is a gamble with factory paint. I have seen some pretty thin factory clear coats. Hell I've seen factory silvers that you can see through. Anyway. Just know that if a detailer does wet sand and buff it. There is no garuntee that there is enough clear on the truck to accomplish this. Some detailer will use a mill guage to judge the thickness. However that only measures the total thickness of the paint, Not just the clear coat
Mine is White Platinum so any Orange Peel is tougher to see. However, compared to my '15 Guard Metallic (dark green) Mustang GT, the F250 paint looks fantastic. The paint job on the stang is almost comically bad......
I was poking around the dealer lot yesterday and saw this very thing. With the straight line cut off it must have been intentional. I also noticed a fair amount of orange peel on the sides of the truck. Here are some cell phone pictures. This truck is shadow black and the truck in the reflection is oxford white.
Looks like it was done that way for chips and the ability to absorb and hide rock damage.
We used to spray texture then the top coat for the same effect back in the day.
Ford used paint like this for years. Even my 93 notchback is similar.
Other than the lower section of the tailgate, my '17 F150 has no real issues with orange peel. Even though I pay way too much attention to detail, orange peel doesn't bother me at all. I expect orange peel on any vehicle, it just doesn't
Originally Posted by Ricohman
Looks like it was done that way for chips and the ability to absorb and hide rock damage.
We used to spray texture then the top coat for the same effect back in the day.
Ford used paint like this for years. Even my 93 notchback is similar.
Yep, that's chip guard. I believe it's slightly soft--which absorbs and deflects damage from rocks, whereas more-brittle paint simply flakes off on inpact. I believe the orange peel effect is a way of hiding the dent created by a rock.
My newly-repainted '88 F150 has chip guard just like this, as well as my '17. The body shop did a great job of treating my truck's paint job as if it were a modern vehicle.
A professional detailer can get that paint looking smooth, even better than coming out of the manufacturer. They can do a 3 stage polish that will get rid of all that.
Polishing alone does not level paint (remove all that texture) you can't do that without wet sanding. So unless the 3stage polish you're referring too includes wet sanding as the first step, polishing will not make much improvement.
Polishing alone does not level paint (remove all that texture) you can't do that without wet sanding. So unless the 3stage polish you're referring too includes wet sanding as the first step, polishing will not make much improvement.
Exactly.
If my new truck has orange peel, and it probably does, I am going to leave it alone. I am not about to take off material for that show car look.
As a side note, that "show car finish" in a darker color is going to show scratches and wear far more than the orange peel.
I've done plenty of wet sanding. It would take me 3 years to do something as big as my F450.
