Poor Paint Condition on Brand New Ferrari

Sorry to hear this, hopefully when your detailer is done with it, it will look as it should. My car should be here next month and I am going to send my car right to the detailer as well.

 

Sorry for your troubles. I know you asked the dealer not to touch the paint but how do you know someone there didn't at least rub a cloth over it? The salesman may not even know if they did.

 

From the looks of it, I'd agree with Solid. All the new Ferraris I've seen at dealerships do not show this damage. I'd bet $20 that someone - most likely not at the dealership per your explanation - wiped it down with a dirty chamois to get some rain / moisture off of it.

Either way, make sure you enjoy the driving experience!

 

Here is what people do not understand.

The final paint detail is done AT THE DEALER, not at the factory. And it makes perfect sense. The car is going to be transported by truck and ship and it's going to sit around a week or so in NJ waiting for documentation. Its going to be 6 weeks to 2 months in transportation from factory to being turned over to your hands.

If you skip this step, then the paint looks poor. Why would you expect it not too?

Now, some dealers do poor job in paint prep before giving it to the customer so YMMV. Some are great, some not so great. And, the cars do at times have poor quality clear coats with orangepeel.

But the final detail comes from dealer prep. If you skip this step, expect poor results.

 

Makes perfect sense.

 

There are plenty of threads on crappy paint from the factory. It is what it is. Fortunately it only takes like $300 from a good detailer to make it look like a million bucks.

 

Not unusual, paint correction from a good detailer as the previous poster indicated is a must.

 

1st world problems.

Joking aside, you did want to see how bad the paint was, perhaps with all that money into R&D, they have no time to higher people to prep the car. I mean it's going to be in transit and it would make sense just to ship it out and let the dealer deal with it.

Some things like this shouldn't be seen from the public. I am surprised the dealer took your request. Dealers should not be allowed to release the cars in this condition since they are the last person a client deals with when receiving the final product.

 

Picked up my brand new 458 this past Saturday and the black paint under the engine bonnet is already peeling...

 

We shouldn't be surprised....look how poor the radio, nav and other systems are.

But that engine is money!!!

 

I couldn't agree more. I have read posts by new owners who can't wait to pay over $10K for "paint correction" to a paint finish that would make a former Yugo employee blush. I would think the problem is more with the paint than the car's testing and shipment, because the cars are partially wrapped in clear plastic while undergoing road testing, and are practically "cocooned" in white wrapping before shipment. I have to wonder whether the owner of a new Aston Martin, Bentley or Rolls-Royce expects such poor paint at new-car delivery as the price of owning such a vehicle. It's no answer to say that you buy a Ferrari for the engine, not the paint finish. The average Lamborghini, in my experience, has a better paint finish than one of our beloved Prancing Horses. There's really no excuse in this day and age, in my opinion. Fred

 

When I received my Speciale AFTER dealer detailing the paint finish was poor. 900 bucks later with the worlds greatest Detailer (IMO) it looks better than any Rolls. This same Detailer told me that my finish was actually pretty good compared to most Ferraris. He went on to state that the LaFerrari (!) that he had done the previous week was in much worse shape than mine! A LaFerrari! He stated that after painting and release from the factory the cars are stored a few blocks away awaiting shipment and that during this unprotected time much of the damage is incurred. I have no way of verifying this. It CAN be fixed though...
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The damage on the hood and probably all over the car is not solely the result of a wash or wipe down, it's poor finishing at the factory. What you are looking at are rotary buffer swirls, trails and haze from the clear coat not being polished properly. It's either operator neglect or inexperience that causes that. Either way, it happened at the factory and they should have QA in place to catch these issues instead of expecting the dealer or customer to address them. They should fix it at the paint shop or during final QA, there is no good reason for such poor quality especially on a high end car. It's just straight up laziness and disregard for quality.

 

In my opinion Ferrari have purposely left the paint like that so customers can get double the 'wow' factor.

1.) wow....when you receive the car, you are so amazed by the beauty of the car. Then you notice the paint blemishes.

2.) WOW....You take it to a professional detailer and he fixes the issues and you fall in love again.

 

Sadly that does not cover the docks, or the overland transport companies.

I see VWs by the thousands at the Port of Houston, wrapped in the white shipping film.
Whoever peels that off first, sees the Factory paint.

 

Those types of swirls are not from dirty towels. They are too circular. This is from some type of buffing done on a hand machine probably with too rough a grit.. its in the clear coat not the paint itself so its easily corrected....The Orange peal issues some folks have are harder to correct...

 

How does 360/430 paint compare to 458 paint quality?

 

If only. My 458 Spider cost more like $5,000 as did my F12. If you want to get really depressed, just take a peek inside the rear flying buttress, either side of the rear window. The orange peel will be obvious to anyone and it seems this is a particularly bad area, I assume being more inaccessible to the robots.