Paint Thickness Gauge CM-205FN for Cars | Digital Paint Meter, Paint Depth Gauge, Coating Thickness Tester, Car Paint Tester, Mil Gauge, LCD, Ferrous/Non-Ferrous, Auto Calibration

Nice

Works as intended. I use to check for repaints and old repairs beneath paint.

This is a pretty decent paint meter for the price. However, I have found that I have gone back and forth to the same area and had deviations as much as 11/100 so I can say it is fairly accurate for the money but between the tip being a little bit sensitive and the overly inaccurate readings I tend to get in different areas. When I go back to them, I would rate this four stars instead of five.

I use it regularly to ensure consistent quality in our production batches. It's an essential device for professionals working with paint and coatings.

Given the price, this tool is an excellent investment for anyone in auto detailing—especially when you consider how much more expensive future paint repairs could be without it.

Since car paint can be tricky, it's smart to start on a vehicle with a flawless factory finish before moving on to older cars with blemishes. It's an excellent device—too bad something like this wasn’t around years ago!

This is a complete garbage product where I seriously did get exactly what I paid for. I thought I would plunk down sixty bucks for a nice entry level thickness gauge to help me visualize the progress I was making while either wet sanding scratches or aggressively polishing but this wasn't even that. I have detailed for nine years without ever burning through clear coat but on the first ticket I had where I had the opportunity to use this device I burned right through the clear (with 5k grit sandpaper, no less...it's like burning through with a magic eraser, FFS!) thinking right up to the very end that I had plenty of material to work with.All that to say that by saving a few hundred bucks on the front end I ended up spending a few hundred bucks on the back end by having to get a panel resprayed by a local paint shop.Calibration was (obviously) ineffective, live readings were wildly inaccurate, testing the same spot over and over lead to different readings every single time, the instructions used a lot of flowery language as if a student of English-As-A-Second-Language was interpreting at their desk via candlelight at 3 am. Save up a little longer for a more trusted brand OR use your gut. Either way you're going to end up doing better than you would if you wasted your money on this item.

As a professional vehicle inspector, I use this tool to capture photos that highlight areas with bondo or additional layers of paint.