is it just me or the factory paint seems cheap i mean i left my car in the garage after cleaning but i guess i missed some small spots when i cleaned it and it had some gunk on it it aint through most of the top layer paint!!

mind you where i am right now its cold outside so theres no heat and my garage isn't hot either.

 

Gunk eating through your paint?

 

you know misc things on the car that usually come off with a good car wash. don't tell me you never had anything on your car when you washed it? lol

 

What's a bad wash job got to do with the quality of the paint?

 

yeah and gunk is pretty non-descriptive. That could be anything from muddy water to nuclear waste. Who knows.

To get back to the point. I haven't considered the paint job cheap. It has help up well for me. I put it under a cover. But boy to I wish I had a garage.

 

That gunk isn't brake fluid is it? :D

 

or Bird %&$! that has been there for a week or two... that could do it.

 

Is it ambergris? If so, scrape it off and send it to me. I know how to dispose of it.

 

i love the paint the car came with..i mean it could have been a little thicker but hey its stock paint...i have the Velocity Red...My car stays garaged 5 days out of the week and gets waxed once a week...no swirl marks or anything like that...i also have over 50 coats of wax on it...smoother than the day i bought it..

 

The 8's paint quality is still not to Euro standards but it's not too bad..... still a bit too thin in some areas and too much orange peel effect.

 

Compared to the other cars my family and I have had, the 8's paint is up there next to the Audi A4, although the 8 does have a bit more orange peel.

 

They paint seems good to me, it's just that they didn't finish it off very well. There are other threads in the forum which point to a poorly applied/cheap clear coat as the cause of the orange peel look. (you can even buff the clearcoat to a mirror-like shine if you got the cojones - I don't.)
I use Zaino, which is great, and it brings out specks of silver in my Ti Grey. It works so well, I have had people tell me my car looks shinier than the day I bought it. Alas, it doesn't get out the orange peel.

P.S. I bet a bird could **** on my hood and it would run off the car onto the ground.

 

^^Same here.