Dust nibs in factory paint

C. Charles Hahn said:
Nice! Is it bad that I find the case just as cool looking as the tool itself? :nerd:
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Lol...not at all! :)





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Ron Ketcham said:
Aren't those produced at Broad Meadows plant?

I was there in the early 90's on the Mercury Capri project, due to excessive paint flaws.

Ford spent a few million USF to upgrade it after our findings.

Sorry to hear, if it is the same plant, that they are back to the same old problem.

Grumpy
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Hi Mr Ketcham, much respect to you sir

yes they are produced at broadmeadows. I own a Tickford AU XR6 falcon sedan from 1998 and I swear paint flaws wise, its

got a better finish wise than the new FG Falcons

The BA and BF paints were superb and the AU's are real good. no dust nibs



the factory at broadmeadows is 8 hours drive from me, I go there every so often for the FPV day

if I'm correct, Ford setup an 80 million dollar paint plant at or just after the AU Falcon or AU series II release in very late 1990's

paint became much better but now with the paint electrostatically bonded to the car body, something aint right with some FG's



they look quite average when new but once polished with some surbuf or opt microfibre polishing pads, a really nice finish appears

it seems that ourr aussie fords and holdens have paint (PPG paint) in which the top microns of paint are rubbish and you have to get

that top layer of crap off. The holdens are even worse (at least non HSV's) peely, paint not layed down right, no depth, paint sticky
 
Are new Australian cars factory painted pretty much the same as U.S. cars...base coat/clear coat? If so, have you had any problems "denibbing" them?



Tom
 
tguil said:
Are new Australian cars factory painted pretty much the same as U.S. cars...base coat/clear coat? If so, have you had any problems "denibbing" them?



Tom
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Tom, if what you're ultimately looking for is advice as to whether or not denibbing will be safe in the case of your Ram, I would suggest posting some pictures of the areas you're looking to deal with. Otherwise we're all pretty much stabbing in the dark as far as determining what advice would be best to give you.
 
C. Charles Hahn said:
Tom, if what you're ultimately looking for is advice as to whether or not denibbing will be safe in the case of your Ram, I would suggest posting some pictures of the areas you're looking to deal with. Otherwise we're all pretty much stabbing in the dark as far as determining what advice would be best to give you.
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Thanks for the suggestion. My camera is not of high enough quality to pick up "nibs" on a white truck. I guess the best I can do is to carefully try one or two that are not in a very conspicuous place.



Tom
 
Got all the nibs leveled...99-100%. I couldn't get Meguiar's Unigrit Sanding Blocks to work as well as I thought they would. It seems that I was working on a lot of surfaces with just a slight curve. I glued small round pieces of 1500 and 2000 Unigrit paper to the ends of new lead pencil erasers. I found that the 1500 grit paper worked the best to knock the nib down. Then I leveled the areas with small rectangular pieces of of Unigrit 2000 paper using a 3/4 inch by 1 inch rubber eraser as a sanding block. The leveled areas buffed out just fine with Ultimate Compound and a four-inch cutting pad on a Porter Cable 7424. No changes in the surrounding surfaces, just the usual Dodge orange peel.



I appreciate the help/suggestions that I got from lots of folks on several forums.



Looking back on it, I should have had the dealer's body shop "make it right". The shop manager talked me out it saying, if they worked on it it could come out worse. Really he probably meant "time is money" and he didn't want to mess with it even though it would have been warranty work. I spent over four hours leveling 34 dust nibs by hand. It would have taken a good tech with the right equipment less than an hour...but then, I'll bet that the guys in the shop aren't anywhere near as "particular" as I am.



Thanks again.



Tom
 
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