I have never seen the official "statistics" of what is considered short and long wave, but I have seen very expensive machines that measure both. that might not affect the clarity of the paint but still presents a texture that most find unattractive. Short wave is a the very fine, almost sandy people-like appearance, where as long wave is the larger flowing "waves in a sea". There are two measurements that orange peel is generally categorized into: short-wave and long-wave texture. I'm contemplating trying it on the doors with 3000 and or 5000? I swear I greatly improved it with just compound on part of 2 panels where it bothered me the most. My car has always had orange peel in the factory paint. I would strongly suggest you coat it and use a SiO2 sealant every 3 months afterwards to keep the protection maxed out. So you will want to keep the car protected at all time afterwards. I would not go through with it.Īlso remember that the thinner your clear is, the more vulnerable your paint is. If it's bellow 100 microns (that's roughly 4 mils) before correction or bellow 80 after correction. This will depend greatly on how bad the orange peel is. So if yours is in that range, you can proceed, by doing 1 pannel and once the fully correction is done (sanding/compounding/polishing) take an other reading and see what you removed. BMWs usually have paint in the 100-150 micro range. Once you have the readings you can decide if you want to go through with it or not. This takes about 5 minutes to do the whole car so it should not be an expensive service to do.Ģ. Find a detailer who can mesure the paint for you. If you are really interested in removing the orange peel you have 2 options:ġ. Without a paint thickness reading, I would advise against doing any wet sanding. What if its only very minor though? Is 3000 even capable of going through the clearcoat? Sent from my SM-G955U using Autogeekonline mobile app If you manage to do it with 2500 or even 2000, you probably can go directly to compound, but at 1500 I suggest you follow with 3000 to save time, unless you machine+pad+compound is agresssive enough to take out 1500 grit scratches quickly.I don't have a gauge though unfortunately So my advice would be to take a paint depth reading to see if you have enough paint to do the work safelly, then block with 1500 (or 2000, or even 2500). something like 30 hours if I recall correctly. I also had a client who removed Orange peel with a denim pad and it took him an ungodly amount of time to do it. To remove the orange peel they went to 1500, then up to 3000 and compound and polish. I just can't remember who made it.Īnyway. I think it was either from Larry Kozilla and Kevin Brown or with Mike Philipps and Jason Rose. I remember a video explaining that 3000 grit will not remove orange peel.
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