Tiger stripes in hood paint

[DaveA]

Ok, so after coming down from Cloud 9, I’ve noticed that the hood has lines in the paint. Isn’t the only way to fix this a re-spray? Needless to say I’ll bring this up with my guide but what a bummer. ?

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[Longhorngirl]

Congrats to another one of my fellow Texans getting their truck. Silver looks great. Not sure if paint correction can fix, but I bet @kanundrum knows the answer.

 

[Davethadog]

Lol yeah this is bad application. These cars are sprayed with rotary bells that spin at like 80,000 rpm to atomize paint very finely. Looks like the flake made its way to the ends of the pattern with bad overlap - probably too dry. The guns and spray parameters are temperamental and maintaining them is equal parts art and science, looks like the paint shop is still on the science portion.

They owe you a new hood skin at the least, but to my knowledge they spray these all in one go, doors and hood included so check elsewhere. With any luck it was only the hood that was affected but often times the same robot that does the hood does the roof so check that and the front bumper too.

 

[Davethadog]

Congrats to another one of my fellow Texans getting their truck. Silver looks great. Not sure if paint correction can fix, but I bet @kanundrum knows the answer.

No amount of dicking with the clear is going to fix that.

 

[DaveA]

Lol yeah this is bad application. These cars are sprayed with rotary bells that spin at like 80,000 rpm to atomize paint very finely. Looks like the flake made its way to the ends of the pattern with bad overlap - probably too dry. The guns and spray parameters are temperamental and maintaining them is equal parts art and science, looks like the paint shop is still on the science portion.

They owe you a new hood skin at the least, but to my knowledge they spray these all in one go, doors and hood included so check elsewhere. With any luck it was only the hood that was affected but often times the same robot that does the hood does the roof so check that and the front bumper too.

Yeah, nothing sticks out on the rest of the body. It’s very strange.

 

[Davethadog]

Yeah, nothing sticks out on the rest of the body. It’s very strange.

Looking at the clip of their paint shop painting a yellow car, looks like two robots do the hood and roof. Maybe unagitated paint in one of the lines. It happens but usually they don’t ship it!

 

[DaveA]

Looking at the clip of their paint shop painting a yellow car, looks like two robots do the hood and roof. Maybe unagitated paint in one of the lines. It happens but usually they don’t ship it!

You think maybe something happened to the hood and it was repainted in rework or something?

 

[Davethadog]

You think maybe something happened to the hood and it was repainted in rework or something?

Anything is possible! I have hand sprayed cars coming off the line with several hot pots with varying degrees of candy in the clear to match inconsistent robotic application. Stopping the paint line is a really big no-no. Harley has a whole room after their robots on one of their lines specifically for weird manually applied antics and backup for equipment failures.

 

[Riviot]

Ok, so after coming down from Cloud 9, I’ve noticed that the hood has lines in the paint. Isn’t the only way to fix this a re-spray?

This is what happens when you gun it everywhere right after delivery. You're supposed to keep the G's below 1 for the first week. But hey, you got the racing stripes for free!

 

[Rivian_Hugh_III]

I agree I’d probably want a new hood… but then again it does kind of look cool

 

[COdogman]

That sure isn’t something that will get fixed by going to the local detailer. Sorry man. Hopefully Rivian does right by you.

 

[Jus10]

I had a silver 2015 c7 corvette have similar issues with the metallic flake portion, but it was nearly the entire car. They did not ever correct it, but they acknowledge silver is tricky to perfect. I questioned how every other mgfr could figure it out at lower price points, and I received no response.

 

[crashmtb]

Looking at the clip of their paint shop painting a yellow car, looks like two robots do the hood and roof. Maybe unagitated paint in one of the lines. It happens but usually they don’t ship it!

If it wasn’t a (mostly) glass roof it’d probably show up there too. But in the pictures, at least, the same defect doesn’t appear to be present on the leading edge of the roof.

someone…multiple someones saw this and signed off on it.

 

[Michaewh]

Maybe its like a misprint at the US Mint, now more valuable!

 

[Davethadog]

If it wasn’t a (mostly) glass roof it’d probably show up there too. But in the pictures, at least, the same defect doesn’t appear to be present on the leading edge of the roof.

someone…multiple someones saw this and signed off on it.

If you watched the gigafactory Berlin opening you’ll notice that the overhead lights are big bright horizontal inspection lights. These serve a purpose in helping the eye to identify defects. Usually final inspection areas have lights that go both directions for helping to identify flaws like this. I wonder if rivian has caught on to this yet?

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