Bummed about Orange Peel on P3D+, Correctable?

[jpfive]

I am so stoked to drive my Performance, but planned ahead and took a day off for full paint correction and ceramic coating. I just finished 3 hrs of polishing, and there is a ton of orange peel all over the car. Its almost bad enough to take it back, but I bought a demo, then went on a week's vacation, so I'm outside my 7 day window.

I'm pretty sure orange peel cannot be corrected, as its an error in the actual paint, not the clear coat, but would be great to hear if someone can prove me wrong. . .

Happy Friday,
Joel

The base (color) coat, and the secondary coat for the pearl effect, are thin and flat (no gloss). It is the clear that gives the gloss, lustre and film build. The clear is where your orange peel is. Because of this it can generally be finessed out. When clear coat was a new thing, and I was in the body shop business, we routinely corrected this with light color sanding (aka wet sanding). Generally we would schedule the car back for this service so that the finish could set up and cure some. As we got more familiar with the clear coat technique this became nearly unnecessary. However, those of us who can remember the acrylic enamel days can remember correcting orange peel in a similar manner. Going back as far as lacquer (primarily GM cars), buffing and polishing was the necessary final step, and accordingly there was no orange peel.

Another poster mentioned that his father's opinion of orange peel was that it showed there was enough paint on the car. That was not such an uncommon point of view back in the day.

Enjoy your car. nobody else sees what you see and you'll soon be accepting of it.