I can't hold it in any longer. My son and I were perusing the dealer's M3's and were floored by the "orange peel" paint on several of the cars. COME ON BMW! Are you kidding? Those cars wouldn't have passed a QC inspection at Hyundai. What's up with that? I understand the paint has changed since the old lacquer days but I doubt Mercedes or Porsche would ever let any product out that looked like this crap.
Looking around some forums, it seems others have noticed this as well, some dating back to a few months ago, so apparently it has been a problem for some time. I am just floored. I didn't think that it would stoop to this level. Though I'm not entirely concerned about orange peel, on a $60k+ vehicle (or any vehicle above $30k) the paint had better be immaculate...
smudged paint defect I just bought a brand new 2008 M3 coupe 3 weeks ago, the car only has 600 miles. I noticed this problem 3 days after I purchased it while washing it. My paint wasn't immaculate. It has a factory blemish on the rear passenger side bumper, right below the tail light. Please take a look at the picture. The paint is a little bit scraped and wrinkled. No way this is a chip, even the dealer admitted that it was a problem that occured at the factory while the paint might have still been a little bit wet. However, the dealer is only willing to "touch" it up, which still will bother me as I paid good money for this car, and I am an "M" enthusiast. I hope someone can help me on this board. Thanks in advance.
Yeah same here. Didn't realize the orange peel till the next day when I was taking pictures. Personally I'm not going to go to the dealer and complain about it but I wasn't really expecting any orange peel at all.
According to Griot's, waxing a BMW too erly can cause the paint to orange peel. Who knows what a given local BMW dealer does to prep their cars for the sales floor/lot?
I never read or heard of such a claim. The paint on new vehicles is baked on at the factory. From what I have read over the years, they say it is fine to wax a new vehicle as soon as you take delivery. Orange peel is usually caused by to much paint applied at time of spraying.