Question for black metallic 5th gen owners

[ThirdgenTa]

I was checking out a thread on a detailing site where a brand new 5th gen owner is wondering if his car has been repainted. Maybe some of you can tell if this is normal or not? I am very curious to see what happens and what the outcome is.
i think my brand new car was repainted at the factory - Auto Geek Online Auto Detailing Forum

[Toasty]

I read through that entire thread... I agree with the deduction that it wasn't a repaint, it does look like unevenness from the factory... Nobody seemed to care to mention that in most of the example pics, THE CAR WAS DIRTY. Maybe because I have a non-metallic color, but I don't think I've seen that tiger striping on any of our member's cars... but its possible that I just haven't seen it yet.

[greennv]

Definitely a repaint. I know the quarters never match the doors but from the front of the door to the back doesn't match. Too bochy. Would never have passed QC at GM.

[showstopper]

Alot could happen on the way from Canada. I couldn't count how many brand new cars we have fixed damage on.

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[FreakyFastFreddie]

Yikes, that looks bad! If I had noticed that it looked like that at the dealer, I would not have driven it off the lot. Hard telling what happened.

[ThirdgenTa]

It seems like the consensus is that there isn't actually a problem here.

At lunch I went back to the same dealership I was at yesterday and looked at another 45th Camaro. There was sunlight out today so I asked a salesman to pull it into the sun, so that I could see the reflection off of the door. I pulled my car behind it so we had angles on both doors reflecting the light.

I swear we looked for 10 minutes and he could see the color variations on my door, but could also see them slightly on the other Camaro. I looked at both and at times I thought I could see them slightly on the other car, but then when I looked at my car, I couldn't really see them that well. About the time we started looking the sun went behind a cloud, which is not helpful at all.

I don't know if my eyes were deceiving me or not, but it looked like the other car had a similar blotchy effect to the paint in different lighting circumstances, although not as prominent as what I see in my car. The salesman didn't think anything was wrong with my car, but I still would have preferred better light so I could get the worse reflection off of my car and compare it exactly to the reflection of the other car.

At any rate, it sounds like at this point I should forget about it and move on and that it is very possibly happening to other copies of my type of Camaro. It is weird to walk out to my car occasionally and see the blotchiness in the right lighting, but I think living with it is probably the easiest solution at this point if you guys truly believe the PTG readings point towards this being factory paint. Plus seeing that other GM metallic paints have had similar effects on other cars puts me at ease.

Still though, kind of a befuddling concept: if the paint on the car is factory paint, I'm okay with the imperfection; but if the paint on the car is not factory paint, I'm not okay with the imperfection. Either way the imperfection is the same. Oh well. Better to get over it then to obsess about it.

Thanks again for all of the responses.

Looks like he may end up leaving it. If I find something like that on my car it would bother me every time I looked at it.
Someone had hit my car and put a dent along the door and I had it fixed at a body shop. I can now see a crease from where they repaired it. Every time I look at it I can see it and it bothers me. I doubt that any other joe shmoe would even notice. Maybe I am too crazy about the paint on my car.

[Toasty]

Glad I have non metallic paint for once!

[Altma]

I know how it goes - I was rear ended back in November, paint on my rear bumper is just a bit darker than the rest of my car - It bothers me, but what can you do? It's just a thing with metallic paint you almost have to deal with - The tiger striping on that car really should never happen if as long as whomever is doing is doing 75% overspray - same thing goes for candy colors, they're really picky to get just right.