How did GM do it

[wmhjr]

Dude,just because you owned 2 MB's, your opinion ,well ,is your opinion. I stated my own experience,not something I read somewhere. I never worked on C or M class,I have worked on and owned S class,worked on regular CLS and AMG ,as well as SL and E class,I do remember the paint on black S550 I put full Lorinser body kit on,it had tough paint,but this thread was started not about how durable the paint is, but how slick it is.IMO MB paint finish is no better than Korean car's paint as far as appearance goes,it is more durable, no doubt.

As for BMW finish, don't take my word for it or absintheisfun's, take a drive to your local BMW stealership and take a look for yourself, recently I had two 09 335i tt coupes at the shop, one was t-boned and another took serious blasting from glass falling off the truck ,requiring everything but the trunk and rear bumper repainted.Also had one 3 series cabrio for some spot repair. I was disgusted at the quality of the finish on all of these cars. I am not lying, it literally looked like chipguard texture that you see sometimes on lower half of the rockers on some cars. Argue all you want about your two MB's,I've seen and worked on enough brand new cars that are still in plastic,cars that are fresh off the boat to come up with my "clouded" opinion or experience.

That's fine - I just don't agree. BTW I've owned more than 2 MBs and BMWs and have tons of friends who own them - and who track them as much or more than pretty much anybody on this site tracks their cars. It's still just opinion.

I pointed out that your references to "$70K+" and "$90K" and waving away the far less expensive cars was flawed. Facts are fact. At a minimum, you "seemed" to have tried to insinuate that "most" MBs were in that high price category, when the facts pretty soundly beat the heck out of your claims. You were WAY WAY WAY off. Not even remotely correct. I personally am very very familiar with the '10 and '11 BMWs and simply don't agree with you. Obviously, based on sales figures, a lot of other people also don't agree. Everyone has a right to their own opinion. That includes you and me. We don't have to agree.



One thing that may be happening here is the idea of what a "good paint job" is. The paint job on my Pontiac is incredibly "slick". ISCA results would back up that statement. I just finished a magazine photo shoot of it (spent a total of 2 days and 12 hours doing the shoot for the article and the cover) and it was a very difficult shoot because everything reflects in it, so getting good mag shots took way longer than usual. The editor and photographer traveled in on a Monday but were not able to get it done before total dark, so they came back on Thursday for another 6 hours. Honestly, I don't want that kind of finish on my daily driver. It shows absolutely EVERY darned speck of dust, lint, every single scratch, every fingerprint. Do I want that on the car I drive 80 miles a day in? Through rain, snow, sleet? Heck no! "Slick" is not necessarily "better". There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. You just might want to consider that the degree of mirror smooth shine is a deliberate and intentional decision NOT based on "lesser quality" but perhaps based on other quality related factors.