OP tied with thickness of paint/clearcoat?

[mbjkiller]

I been reading how people wetsand their car to remove the orange peel and make the car look shinier. I also been reading how too much polishing will reduce the thickness of the paint. My question is, cant we use the orange peel on the car as a sign to say when it is time to stop polishing the car? Will we see less and less orange peel from the times we polish the car?

 

[DSVWGLI]

Not neccesarily. If the vehicle was painted in a way that each coat of paint did not have a chance to level then you would have multiple coats with OP. If you were to polish enough to go through a coat of paint with OP you would just be revealing the next coat with OP in as well.

 

[Accumulator]

Will we see less and less orange peel from the times we polish the car?

Not really, at least not with today's b/c paints. You used to be able to remove a lot of it from some ss paints without thinning them so much that they'd fail, but IMO wetsanding most b/c paint is asking for trouble, at least down the road.

 

[Steve530]

I recall reading a post somewhere, probably here, that stated that people who repaint their cars and want an OP free paint job apply extra layers of cleacoat, then wet sand surface to remove the OP.



Seems like that would indicate that you could eventually polish out the OP. But it might take a really, really long time and you wouldn't have much paint left.