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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee
They use electrostatic paint that goes on extremely thin. If you look at the paint at a certain angle, you'll see a lot of "orange-peel". The GTRs are the same. The hood and front end of my 350 had major cancer before I got rid of it. Don't expect Nissan to do anything about it.
Japanese carmakers are known to have extremely thin coats of paint. If you check out Zymol wax (not the crap you get at Autozone, the expensive stuff) and they have a wax specifically for Japanese cars.
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electrostatic paint is great for being low waste, but it definately produces orange peel because it is so thin. Porsche's, BMW's, Ferrari...they all have orange peel because of it.
Gone are the days of the perfect mirror paint finish with the color coat. It might be flat as glass on the clear, but the color coat always shows something with a number of cars these days.
It's just a symptom of thin paint, which, thin paint = lighter car = better emissions (to an extent)
Maybe they're trying for the golfball approach?