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There is minor orange peal on my DB Touring model. I have the zaino package used once. Any other recommendations?

Thanks

Pat1USMC

Am i crazy or isn't orange peel is not something you can just wax out or polish off. Its how the paint was actually put onto the body of the car.
If you can take it off, I will be very very surprised....

Stone Z

You can't remove orange peel....it's a characteristic of the paint below the clear coat.

Ricky

A Sander HAVE FUN!

syf0n

this guy just doesn't knwo what he's talking about. As the other guys said, it's below the clear coat.

sov

Sand it and repaint by hand!

Ricky

YES! Exactly.. and I heard repainting the car with a wall paint brush works wonders

Kevin Overall

Orange peel is a character of clear coat meaning a wavy reflection when you view say your face's reflection in the paint, it is an uneven top surface level of clear coat. You can have the car color wet sanded using 1500 or 2000 grit paper, this of course will leave the paint very dull which will have to have the car buffed with compound to bring the gloss back around. This is a common thing done on the show car circuit. The reason all factory clear coated cars have orange peel is that after they are sprayed at the factory the clear is never color sanded after the final shot.

You can have your factory painted car sanded to level the clear coat which will eliminate the orange peel.

When a show car is painted for serious showing the car will have 7 or 8 layers of clear coat applied with the sole intent to sand off maybe 2 or 3 coats, this will level the top surface of the clear leaving an orange peel free surface with a true reflection instead of a wavy reflection.

You can remove SOME of the orange peel without sanding by using a polishing compound or rubbing compound in a multi step process where you will usually use about 3 or 4 different levels of abrasiveness starting with the roughest and ending with the finest and finally a hand polishing.

TCL

Do know how many mils thick the clear coat on the 350Z is? I was considering having the car either buffed or wet sanded in a few places but I'd like to get an idea how much clear there is to work with before hitting the base coat.

Kevin Overall

No, I don't know. But factory painted cars have very little clear coat, probably only one or two layers.