New '07 Toyota Tunda with ALOT of paint... Why??

Interesting thing I found.

My dad bought a new '07 Toyota Tundra. Silver.

He bought one, went to take delivery and found rats had eaten at the engine. The dealer kept the car and found him a new one.

Since I have the Defelsco paint meter, I took it along to make sure since the car was on the lot a long time that the paint was all even and in good shape.

Anyrate, the first truck had an average of like 4.9 +/- .02 mils of paint. Good shape.

The new truck that the dealer got from another dealer had like 6.7 +/- .02 mils of paint. All over, every pannel, very even, including the roof.

I checked like 5 other Tundras and Land cruisers of different colors on the lot and they were all in the 5.0 range, not up at the 6.7.

Any ideas here as to why? Seems really odd to me. The paint is in spectacular condition for comming from a detailer. I really couldn't see a reason to repaint the whole truck, so I petty much have ruled that out.

Thanks for any input. Pictures comming later.

 

I did some work a company that installed paint systems for the auto industry. I know that once in while the manufacturer will repaint a vehicle if something happen to the paint the first time around.

 

What GBS said ^^^
It is not uncommon for a vehicle to get a complete re-spray before it is sent to the final assembly area. Defects can be corrected more efficiently and with greater quality control in the paint shop. It's a good thing! :thumb:
Dave

 

That's very interesting, someone mentioned this to me before but I didn't pay much attention to it. Interesting in deed though :thinking:

 

sorry i can't help but you have some valid questions here....:thumb:

funny ..can you see the sales managers face :yikes: when the OP is going thru the lot checking his vehicles. for paint thickness ..

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Sales manager though it was pretty cool... the Sales guy my dad was deal with was saying, "ooh, check that one. Ooh, what about the Land Cruiser, it's 71k, ooh, is that one less cause it's not metallic?".

 

Now that's interesting... Hmmm, I must research this option a bit more.