Individual paint: quality question

I was at BMW Welt this week, and was looking at a new M6. There was a Tanzanite Blue and a Sakhir Orange.

The Tanzanite had jaw dropping quality- virtually no orange peel, maybe some slight ripples on part of the hood, but stunning.

The orange was horrific. The bumper was a mismatch to the body, and there was orange peel on every panel.

(I took the factory tour, and watched the robots lay done orange peel with precision! I was almost apoplectic, but nobody seemed to notice- just oohs and ahhs....)

My question: Does individual paint' on an order buy me this quality? Will I get the same quality I saw on this Welt example? The rep there said "Yes, individual is a special process". Buy he was, after all, a salesman.

True? False?

Thx

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I asked during the tour and they said it Is painted on a different line. The M6 is not built in Munich though so I'm not sure if different plants handle it the same or better? Still, I'm also curious to know more.

True - individual paint cars are painted twice. They paint a bad shell first as a test run.

haha... do it wrong first .. and then right!

Both Individual and Custom Order paint are done off-line. As a data point, I was quoted a whopping $7,850 to paint a '14 M6 vert in one of the old standard BMW colors, Montreal Blue.

I've also seen a Tanzanite 650 vert and the paint was perfect.

A guy brought a brand new black M3 into a local body shop that does great work and told them to change it to Dakar yellow which they did for about 8 grand and change.

Originally Posted by dkreidel

Both Individual and Custom Order paint are done off-line. As a data point, I was quoted a whopping $7,850 to paint a '14 M6 vert in one of the old standard BMW colors, Montreal Blue.

I've also seen a Tanzanite 650 vert and the paint was perfect.

Eek, someone tried to throw you over a wall...