Orange Peel
 

Pre game question. How much orange peel is acceptable in the paint.
I was looking at my 2011 today since it was nice out and boy
the paint quality sucks. Scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst i would rate it a solid 7. Just wondering what others are seeing. BTW color is space grey and my 2008 didn't look as obvious.

My 2007, 2008 and now my 2011 E70s had and have MORE orange peel than any other car I have ever had (and we've had A LOT). It is just something, I overlook on the E70...but the orange peel is SO bad. At certain angles...my ENTIRE 2011 X5 is covered with orange peel...every surface, every panel! Luckily, when clean and waxed and in most light...the paint is really shiny and glossy, but holy sh*t, at certain angles, the paint job looks home done!

Funny, just today (after 6 weeks of ownership), I was locking the car using CA and just happened to notice the orange peel. It doesn't particularly bother me so I never went looking for it, but today the angle was just so I suppose. Platinum Gray...

BMW's are notorious for orange peel worse than the cheapest Ford, Chevy, or Chrysler.

My Ford Focus pain was virtually zero orange peel.

I have my delivery this week - what to do in such a case? Do we take delivery, refuse delivery, asked it to be fixed, can it be fixed?

Can someone post some pics so I know what I'm looking for?

Heres a link to a thread on orange peel. Crazy amount of work to get rid of it but looks great when its done.

The Life of My 2008 E92 M3 - BMW 3-Series (E90 E92) Forum - E90Post.com

Wow Orientexpress, that came out great.
Awesome!!!

again - in case of orange peel, do we take delivery or have it fixed before delivery? My X5 delivery is later this week.

Since EVERY E70 has been, and is like this since 2007....What do you want or expect the dealership to do? In most lighting and situations, your paint will look rich, glossy and super shiny (and the quality of the paint used is great!). It's just the application and/or equipment used that is below Mercedes and FOR SURE below Audi and Porsche (their paint jobs are near flawless!!).

The E70 does SO much right and has SO many amazing, wonderful qualities...you just have to ignore & live with the Orange Peel. The dealer and/or BMWNA will NOT help you on this one.

So we can't do anything? Not even asked it to be wetsanded etc?