For the first time since ownership I've been able to give the car a good clean. The paint finish on it is, in my opinion, rubbish. Very orange peel all over the car. Now not having owned a Skoda before am I asking to much for it to be up to the standard of our previous Passat or my current C220?

I have tried taking a picture but it does show it well. Are all Octavia the same?

No orange peel on my 2010 FL model

I find most new cars have a lot of orange peel. Some colours just hide it better than others. It'll probably be down to Skoda (and most other manufacturers) putting stuff in the paint mixture to make the paint dry pretty much as soon as it touches the car to speed up production.

Get some 2000 W&D then some polish on it

I hope these pictures show it

If you're unhappy with the finished product surely a trip to the dealer would be in order?

If you're unhappy with the finished product surely a trip to the dealer would be in order?

I agree but I wanted to gauge if this finish is the norm for these cars first.

I agree but I wanted to gauge if this finish is the norm for these cars first.

Understandable but in my opinion when you spen £23k+ on a car it should be right and orange peel paint ain't right.

Is there not a warranty on paint, or is that just corrosion?

I have the same colour and there is no orange peel, even my dad commented how good the finish is and he used to spray cars for a living!

Can't really see the orange peel from your pics, but what is the white bit under the foot of the roof rail?

Nothing wrong with that from the photos.

For the first time since ownership I've been able to give the car a good clean. The paint finish on it is, in my opinion, rubbish. Very orange peel all over the car. Now not having owned a Skoda before am I asking to much for it to be up to the standard of our previous Passat or my current C220?

I have tried taking a picture but it does show it well. Are all Octavia the same?

The only person on here who had a paint issue, is Mike999 but it wasn't Orange peel effect.

 

I've got Race Blue MK3 Vrs and no issue with paint quality

Orange peel is to be expected. Even top end beemers suffer.

Got more noticeable when they had to switch to water base rather than solvent.

Paint quality / finish on my Candy White Octy 3 is almost  perfect - "almost" because a car threw up a stone when travelling on the M6 last Sunday & somehow smacked near the top of the drivers door just beneath the wing mirror  . 

It could have been worse I know, but it's quite a deep gouge, certainly noticeable & will need sorting soon - that chip aside, the paint finish & every other aspect of the car IS perfect ! 

JKW

That's more than likely a pre-delivery respray on that panel tbh.

Orange peel is to be expected. Even top end beemers suffer.

Got more noticeable when they had to switch to water base rather than solvent.

 

To be expected?!

 

If it comes on mine, I'll be straight to the dealer with my angry face!

 

Why do so many people on this forum think its okay to accept sub standard and poor workmanship?!

Orange peel is to be expected. Even top end beemers suffer.

Got more noticeable when they had to switch to water base rather than solvent.

 

To be expected?!

 

If it comes on mine, I'll be straight to the dealer with my angry face!

 

Why do so many people on this forum think its okay to accept sub standard and poor workmanship?!

 

Orange peel is a perfectly natural paint phenomenon, the only way to have no orange peel is to completely wet sand the whole car and then polish it.  If you want that than you're going to have to buy a Rolls Royce.

Edited 27 December, 201312 yr by Neily03

Orange peel is not down to poor workmanship, it's down to time saving. Orange peel will occur and Skoda and any other high volume manufacturer isn't going to spend hours on each car, flatting and buffing the paint to make it flawless when they already can't get em out of the door quick enough.

If people want flawless paint on their mass produced car, they'll need to either get busy or pay a paint correction company to do the work.

Looks like the bonnet has been re-sprayed to me. Probably damaged.

It's quiet normal. And anyone above with a mkll it's also on them all just not as noticeable. It's actually quiet bad on bmws.

Personally the mklll white Vrs i looked at was not great as in tiny bits of dust under the paint on the bonnet and roof. I'm very anal about paint work so it takes a trained eye to see it.

Looks like the bonnet has been re-sprayed to me. Probably damaged.

having worked in a car body shop and sprayed hundreds of cars that was my instant reaction too, but everybody else thinks it's normal... Perhaps it's normal for them to get damaged in transit or on the production line, personally if I'd bought a new car and it came out the dealership looking like that I'd ask them if they were taking the **** and ask them what the punch line was.

I remember reading somewhere that 1 in 5 cars are damaged in transit.

So it would seem that this is normal, and I'm wrong to be comparing it to VW and Mercedes paint. I did pop to the dealers and had a look at some cars on the forecourt and they all look the same. The finish is like it all over the car not just the bonnet so it would seem that it is just the way it is. The white bit under the roof rail is remnants of the protective film, pair of tweezers and it is gone.

Thanks for the replays and help.

The white bit under the roof rail is remnants of the protective film, pair of tweezers and it is gone.

 

 

Lack of attention to detail at the PDI then!

Lack of attention to detail at the PDI then!

Well it did have the wrong number plate on when I picked it up! So you could be right.

Jeez- that is beyond a joke!

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