Found under the paint on new Avalanche

[Shaners]

Look what I found under the paint on the hood of my new Avalanche. It is about 3/4" by 1" rectangle where the base coat laid funny. The top coat is smooth as glass. I suppose I could ask them to repaint my hood, but I have the white diamond tricoat ($995 option) and I doubt they would be able to match it very well...

 

 

[GasHog369]

That much of an option would make me have them repaint even more. If they cant match, tell em to repaint whole truck. Don't settle on a prep flaw or paint fail.

[RyanbabZ71]

I wouldnt be happy with that. Never know what will happen in the future. Remember the 90's GMT-400 with blue/silver paint that peeled off

[kstruckcountry]

The silver paint on my 1990 was the only good paint it had

[Mich4x4]

I am an auto insurance appraiser by trade... Have been for 13 years. Being a tri-coat paint, they could repaint the hood, but would definitely have to blend the fenders for color match. Just my $0.02

[bossier62guy]

I wouldnt be happy with that. Never know what will happen in the future. Remember the 90's GMT-400 with blue/silver paint that peeled off

 

My dad had an 89 that was maroon/tan.....if the wind blew hard enough paint was peeling off of it. I on the other hand had a maroon 89 that looked as good the day I sold it as when I bought it 10 years earlier. Go figure....and yes....GM would be repainting that hood.

[Sir Dan]

I wouldn't accept this flaw. Have them fix it...they can do wonders with matching the paint nowadays. Especially on a brand new vehicle without faded or sunbleached paint yet.

I wouldn't accept this flaw. Have them fix it...they can do wonders with matching the paint nowadays. Especially on a brand new vehicle without faded or sunbleached paint yet.

[montyss]

It dosen't look good but if its anywhere on your truck that is the best place , way better than having something on the side to repair with the Tri coat

I'm currently doing a white Tri coat on a Nissan tomorrow morning . If done correctly they can look unnoticeable . The first step for me is to spray up a test card with the ground coat then taping up a section of the card, spraying on the mid coat one coat then moving the paper up the card to revel more of the card doing this again and again till you have about 8 sections on the card sprayed , clear it and see which one of the sections is the match for the paint on the car being painted . Its usually in the 4-5 coat range of the test card . Then you just repeat this to the car or truck

[Shaners]

Thanks for all the interesting information. It scares the hell out of me having to have my brand new $52,000.00 truck repainted! I will have to talk to my dealer and see what he says... I know if I have it resprayed and iif it didn't blend perfectly I will be more disappointed than I am right now.

[montyss]

exactly... we had a guy bring us in a New Cad that the dealer had done ... needless to say its wasn't very good . He wanted us to do it but only do one panel and thats not possible with Tri coat ,thats not a reality to make it look good .

[hzhardy]

Looks like someone touched the hood with a greasy thumb and it reacted. Any top notch paint shop can fix you up. They will deffinatly have to paint the fenders as well to make it match. The problem is now you have adheasion problems so if you decide to "live with it" it will possible flake off in the future. Take care of your investment and make them fix it.

[cobrajet84]

Make them fix it,not acceptable on a new vehicle.

[Shaners]

Looks like someone touched the hood with a greasy thumb and it reacted. Any top notch paint shop can fix you up. They will deffinatly have to paint the fenders as well to make it match. The problem is now you have adheasion problems so if you decide to "live with it" it will possible flake off in the future. Take care of your investment and make them fix it.

 

Maybe I should have a forensic guy lift the print and find the guilty party at the GM paint shop!

[scooby5121]

I had the rear quarter painted when the truck was damaged at dealership the day of my appointment. The detailer scratched the dually fender on the overhead door backing out...

 

The Facts: 3 paint jobs later with the chrome, lights , everything dismantled...The Paint STILL did not come out right.

I am not that fussy but fish eyes, runs, are not acceptable to anyones standard.

 

All said and done the fender ( silver birch metallic) is one shade darker than the rest of the truck expecially when the sun is out.

Painter whom is at the Dealership consided with me an told me that they would have to go right to the primer coat to make it match better. BETTER not get the truck like I received the Brand New 65,000 dollar truck back with the paint job XXXX !!

 

Good Luck, and check it out under all lighting conditions before you accept it.

[montyss]

Thanks for all the interesting information. It scares the hell out of me having to have my brand new $52,000.00 truck repainted! I will have to talk to my dealer and see what he says... I know if I have it resprayed and iif it didn't blend perfectly I will be more disappointed than I am right now.

see if you can look at some of the paint jobs out of there shop well before they touch yours if they do...