I'm actually looking forward to hitting her with some matte black rattle can in the future.

 

The black paint on my 2012 is not very good. My 2007 paint was much thicker and had a nice heavy clear coat on it.
60,000 miles the 07 had zero rock dings in the hood. Went through 4 windshileds but I digress...Hundreds maybe thousands of miles on gravel roads and narrow wheeling trails, all scratches waxed out super easy.


The current black is thin and does not appear to have any clear coat at all.
It may have some clear mixed in but it does not have a secondary clear coat like traditional auto paint.

Set anything on the hood, scratch.
Seriously, Home depot parking lot hotdog is heavy enough the scratch the hood with the new black paint. Kind of sad for a Jeep really.

 

Maybe a timing thing..... What year did it become a Government Motors product?

My 07 Black JK had a nicer paint job as well.

 

Just about all vehicles has some sort of orange peel. luxury cars maybe not so much. With black you see all the flaws.

 

This paint job is a pain to keep clean. After every trail and rinse it still requires soap and some detailing. I'm complimented on the color all the time but man does it require work to keep it looking good.

 

My 2009 paint is pretty good minus all the " zibera" scratches iv given myself..

Iv used turtle wax black box..it really worked

I plan on keep ridding the trails and zibra it up. When im ready I will use a single stag black paint..cheap and easy to redo

 

Jeep is currently repainting my 2012 Black Forest green due to poor paint coverage and bubbling on the hinges. There is not a single panel that you can't see through the paint in sunlight.

 

first or second time I noticed in some of the deeper spots around headlights wasn't hit well with factory paint , not enough to make me return to have it painted though I think jeep need to do lots of things better paint , too lol I still like my jeep but I never liked the rust under it from day one right from the factory the jeep had surface rust undercarridge not good , and 32 ,000 is a lot to be getting poor quality my trany had to be taken out and repaird at 3000 miles it had a grind in 4th gear starting within the first month syncro was bad and fork assembly. im ok with it now it actually shifts nice , again I feel jeep need to improve in areas of quality control and better service dept at dealers