10/02/2026
Just had a very interesting 2016 Chevrolet 3500 pick up truck in the shop. This is a nicely modded truck with a highly built diesel engine unit the owner said it was pumping out 700 hp and 1400 foot pounds of torque. It had beautiful aftermarket wheels and looked great. Owner had rust repair done and repaint of the entire truck bed. Aside from the truck bed this is a truly beautiful truck.
The repaint had virtually every defective problem from a poor paint job. It had excessive orange peel, dry spray, bits of crud in the paint, sand marks, and just a general lack of any sort of gloss. One good thing it did have was plenty of paint. The thickness was about double that factory paint. A thicker paint allows a detailer to fix the defects that came out of the spray booth. This was a five step correction process. We started with three stages of wet sanding from very fine to super fine sandpaper, and then followed with compounding and a finish polish. The process turned this ugly duckling paint job into a swan.
Contact Fastidious Detailing to turn your ugly duckling ride into a swan.