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

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.

While this device might not be the most precise, it performs its function flawlessly. I have absolutely no complaints about how it works, and it’s definitely worth the price. Now, with a backlight and standard battery power, it’s a major improvement!

Excellent for checking paint on automobiles.Unfortunately, I keep losing these but that is my own fault. Great quality with the ability to calibrate it every so often if needed

Backlight is very nice, and that's why I bought this one. This gauge does the job just adequately for home / hobby use. While it has instructions on how to calibrate, the device will not hold calibration to the controls provided. It is about 5-8% variance with each successive measure. If you need something more precise, you will need to spend more money.

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This meter easily reads the paint on a car. Are any areas repainted? Plastic body filler buildup underneath? This meter can tell you all you need to know about the finish on a car your contemplating. It reads the paint thickness and repainted cars have a thicker coating on them. Of course, if there’s body filler underneath the paint the number will be quite high. Keep it on you when looking at cars. Put the measuring end on the paint and move around the car. The situation becomes clear. This unit uses a couple AAA batteries and not the coin battery of others. This makes it much cheaper to maintain. Nice tool

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.

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