wowzer

Take a look at the paint on my ES300h 2015. In certain lighting conditions, you can see lines in the reflections. Do all lexus cars have this type of paint?

chromedome

Some kind of staining? I assume yours has a pearl coat. I've got a Starfire Pearl car and it doesn't have any of those lines.

TechNut

I don't see them on our atomic silver either.

mspearl95

have you used a car wash with spray on wax recently?

lesz

Are you seeing that at any other places besides the location (a gas station, I assume) where that picture was taken? Is it visible on other panels besides the one shown in the picture? If you change the position of the car by, say, rotating it 90 degrees, does what you see change?

Also, if there is any chance that mspearl95's thought about a car wash spray wax leaving residue is correct, you could test that by using a polish by hand. If it is residue from a spray wax, the polish should remove it.

SW17LS

Yeah thats some sort of running staining, that shouldn't look that way...

mspearl95

i was wondering about this last night too- if it is only noticeable at the gas station. if they use multiple tube fluorescent lighting for their overhead lights, it may throw some weird reflections on the paint.

oh yeah, and where i am, the green gas nozzles mean diesel. are you filling up with diesel?

lesz

Yes, that is what I was thinking when I asked the questions about when the lines are visible. I was thinking that either reflections or shadows created by the light might be creating the illusion that the lines are actually in the paint.

And I was also wondering about the green gas nozzles.

Mike728

The diesel nozzle won't fit in the filler tube. Don't ask why I know this!

wowzer

It was regular and it was only with specific lighting. Otherwise the atomic silver is perfect.