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Originally Posted by deanyel
We're getting a little off the subject here - but it is amazing how bad new Mercedes paint jobs are - compared to Toyota for example. New Toyotas don't have orange peel - while new Mercedes have so much you would think they were striving for that effect. And there's apparently a lot of people, in England and the coast of California, for example, that think the new paint jobs do rust.
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If you look at most MB paint jobs, they have always had quite a bit of orange peel especially on the vertical surfaces such as the sides. My 1991 560 SEL had it, my 300CE had it, my CLK's had it, my S and CL have it and if I recall the older MB cars that I owned likewise had it. I would not say that the new, environmentally friendly paints are the problem but the process itself is what creats this. My Lexuses or Lexi are practically free of any orange peel and do have a flatter paint job than MB but in addition the paint is much softer in my opinion.
Lou K