jeremysoca
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Does anyone else have a quality issue with "waves" or vertical looking dings in their paint? My issue is with the lower panel on both drivers and passenger sides?
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"waves" in paint from factory??
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azskyrider
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all toyotas
These are on just about all toyotas. It is to help protect paint chipping from road debris.
My mother's 2005 toyota corolla has it and my friends 2005 tacoma.
I agree it does not look the best but it helps the problem.
These are on just about all toyotas. It is to help protect paint chipping from road debris.
My mother's 2005 toyota corolla has it and my friends 2005 tacoma.
I agree it does not look the best but it helps the problem.
jeremysoca
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Thanks for the replys, I didnt know that! Maybe another reason why Toyota is the best auto manufacturer out there
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The "waves" that you describe is called orange peel effect. When the car is painted it's the natural way that finish sticks (ununiformly or bumpy). It's smoothed out by wet-sanding and then clear-coating. Wet sanding is manual process and requires lots of men-hours, therefore it's only done on show cars. As you see in order to keep cost of new cars down and profits up, no manufacturer would go through the trouble of such laborious task.
flatspin187
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it also has to do with it being a water based paint that the use.. i think.. correct me if im wrong
Gromulus
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Paint Misconceptions
Nothing natural about it. Coating manufacturers go to great lengths to formulate products that avoid orange peel. As environmental regulations have tightened, manufactuerers have been forced to reduce the solvent content in coatings by either going to higher solids solvent-borne coatings or waterborne (basecoats). As the "solids" content rises, there is more tendency to orange peel. Formulators have many avenues to reduce or eliminate this effect. Application has an equal effect upon orange peel and other defects.
As above, water-based basecoats have gained the majority share in automotive OEM technology. There is no inherent increase or decrease in orange peel appearance vs. solvent-borne technology.
Most automobile manufacturers use a chip-resistant primer on the lower panels which are more susceptible to stone chipping. This layer can result in increased orange peel although appearance is generally better than in the past.
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Nothing natural about it. Coating manufacturers go to great lengths to formulate products that avoid orange peel. As environmental regulations have tightened, manufactuerers have been forced to reduce the solvent content in coatings by either going to higher solids solvent-borne coatings or waterborne (basecoats). As the "solids" content rises, there is more tendency to orange peel. Formulators have many avenues to reduce or eliminate this effect. Application has an equal effect upon orange peel and other defects.
flatspin said:
As above, water-based basecoats have gained the majority share in automotive OEM technology. There is no inherent increase or decrease in orange peel appearance vs. solvent-borne technology.
Most automobile manufacturers use a chip-resistant primer on the lower panels which are more susceptible to stone chipping. This layer can result in increased orange peel although appearance is generally better than in the past.
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