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Old 04-24-2011, 02:54 PM   #4
blue2000s
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Originally Posted by Allen K. Littlefield
Very good looking Tony. Let me ask you and others something, do you have any 'orange peel' on the sides specifically the doors? Seems like my car has almost a pebble finish on the doors and to lesser extent elsewhere. I assume that the paint dries different on the vertical surface as opposed to the top of the hood, deck and fender tops. I have solved some of the worse with wet sandpaper then an orbital buff with 3M rubbing compound. So I wonder if this peel is more or less standard on all Boxes???


AKL
That's more or less standard on all factory finishes. Wet sanding and polishing the color coat before clear and then the clear itself is required step to remove orange peel and it's never done by the factory.

Check out my post in this thread:

Advice on Paint desire better than new

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