How can dealers sell cars like this?

Because they are a Chevy dealer.

 

Half the threads in the detailing section here are post-delivery "paint corrections" on brand-new cars. All manufacture-delivered paint is bad, some is just worse than others.

 

My Corvette C7 with the optional $1000 Crystal Red paint looks like someone spray painted a pizza. I have never seen any car maker sell a car at this price with such lousy paint.

And, it's inconsistent which makes it worse. Some areas are just plain horrible while others are acceptable.

It's so bad I don't want to color sand it as it may cut right through the clearcoat.

I think American buyers just expect it because GM certainly seems to get away with it. I remember seeing one of the first H2 Hummers in silver and the car (truck?) literally had tiger stripes because the robots painted the cars so poorly. But, someone bought it.

Go figure.

 

My c6Z has great paint all over

 

It will get "corrected" when the car is "restored" to concours condition 40 years from now.

 

In general American cars are driven regularly and are quite capable of going for long periods at high speed with little repair work. This implies less importance to the role of the paint on the car.

Other continents are very capable of producing cars that look great stored in a garage or on the lift in the shop....��

Take your pick��

 

I've even seen new mercedes, bentleys, Porsches that suffered "port damage" only to have paintwork and of course they did not adjust the price nor did they tell the buyer


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Here is mighty BMW M3. Bow down to superior German engineering and precision. Looks glass smove doesn't it? I wish those stupid Americans were this great at painting cars.
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So true! I have found examples of very good paint from both domestic and foreign-and really bad examples from both as well. For example, my 96 Viper GTS(with painted/clear coated stripes) had unbelievably good paint and my last F-car was only missing the Sunkist sticker.