Originally Posted by ben's car audio
Andrew, I haven't found any overspray, and it looks like they did a good job at back taping. Jmack and meshcraft; I've personally done four "completes", an untold number of repairs and several motorcycles. I've worked with lacquers, catalyzed enamels, and urethanes. I have six or seven body shops that I regularly do insurance replacement business with. I'm tellin ya... they didn't touch my fender or quarter, if they did they managed to replace several fine scratches that I've been waxing over for the last two years exactly !! That is the point...They matched everything including the relatively poor factory finish very well! Now again look closer - the digital image picks up the slight variation in hue between the fender and the door. THEY DIDN'T PAINT MY FENDER! l.o.l.
I was talking about the "orange peel" texture. Just made a comment to what I saw along the ridge at the bottom. In other words the paint didn't look smooth to me. When a repair shop repairs a car and then paints only one panel they are SUPPOSED" to feather the color into adjacent panels to insure the color matches. Now with black it's less of a problem, but it would be normal procedure to feather it into the panels, which is a good thing because sometimes you get scratches or paint chips taken care of for free. If they didn't feather it then they did it wrong or it may not be as necessary for black paint. Feathering means the paint is blended into the panel. It doesn't mean that they repaint that fender or whatever. I'm not good at explaining.
Certain overspray is normal and after a paint job or just from simply hanging around a paint & body shop your car will get a light grit on it. This is easily taken care of with detailing clay (but use the right brand. Some brands don't seem to do anything).
It's no big deal. Just something I noticed. I'm very picky and I make sure it all matches...etc. I make sure they feather and no overspray...etc. Otherwise I make them redo it. That's just me.