I totally understand you're frustrated, and you should be as that paint looks like shit. For all people for a black car to be delivered to, its an expert in the finish industry!
If I'm reading it correctly, sounds like you're OK with a correction and PPF, you just don't want to pay for it. Respray is off the table, so correction and PPF is really the only solution here. Since you're in the industry, I imagine you already planned to correct and PPF if the car had shown up with acceptable blemishes?
Regardless of what you planned to do with the paint, I guess my point is to come to a conclusion for what would make you whole again and focus on that. The damage is done, so I would stay on point and put my energy towards a solution that gets you to a point of enjoying the car.
Lastly, as someone that is an OCD clean perfectionist, I lived many years being frustrated by others that do not view my material goods the way I do. I've learned the burden to temper this tendency is on me, not them. In other words, most people wouldn't even notice the paint, which is the same people that you're dealing with at GM, so be mindful that they probably think you're being unreasonable.
Thank you for the reply, you've hit this one right on the noggin. Damage is done, you're right and yes I was planning to do a light correction as 9 times out of 10 GM Solid Black needs it. I didn't expect to do a 2000-3000 sanding with a 6 to 7 stage correction. Did plan to PPF the front end, now the entire car has to be PPF'd because the damage is literally everywhere and that's the only option for me to live with this. The damage will always be there but as long as I can't see it I'll be OK. It would have to be Matte/Satin PPF as the damage no matter the levels of sanding and correction is still showing through Gloss PPF.
The issue with repainting it, unless you're taking it to a God level paint shop, it won't look good and no matter how good the painter is, if you ever remove PPF from a respray the chances of you pulling paint is extremely high. Not only that the tension of anchoring the film during installation has a good chance of shifting the clearcoat so it'll actually look weird and wavy. A lot of people don't realize this, as the film cures/shrinks it actually creates intense pull on the clearcoat, gabbing it and pulling it towards how it was anchored. I haven't seen an aftermarket paint job yet that PPF hasn't torn off unfortunately.
Since I'm in the industry, I know who the best shops are for paint. To do the whole car the right way(No fish eyes, blemishes, weird anomalies, inconsistence levels of paint, matching panels) I was quoted $18, 000 + Tax, 6-8 months wait to get in. I can't wait that long and GM will never pay that lol.
All I want for them is to pay to have it fixed, through me, through the dealer, through the Pope. Doesn't matter to me as long as it's done the right way. The LGR Plant Manager admitted in his e-mail that they fucked up, that's why myself and the dealership are mind boggled that they're skirting around this issue instead of paying already.
Your last paragraph is the absolute truth, but I will say that one of the Corvette Sales Managers which is LITERALLY blind was able to see the damage on my car, this was a testament on how mutilated it was and is. If he's able to see it, believe me anyone can lol.
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