Controlling Orange Peel's Impact On Today's Brilliant Auto Finishes
Having attained a new standard makes it more important than ever to avoid an old nemesis to painted finishes - orange peel.
Any way you look at it, orange peel is bad news. When a car rolls off the assembly line with this wavy, light-and-dark pattern hiding somewhere in the paint, the only good news is that it was caught. Otherwise it would have been received by the dealer or even a consumer and caused considerable dissatisfaction. That would be even more expensive than sending it to the rework department in the first place. You could also add to those problems the potential losses in scrapped products, and the possibility that paint is being wasted because of overkill in the spray booth.