[Dave Rifkin]

My wife and I just purchased a 2013 BMW 328ix from a local, reputable, auto liquidation dealership. The car is super clean with low miles (22,000). My wife noticed that the emblem on the hood was crooked and the hood gap was slightly off so we had the dealer check it out. She also noticed that the car's paint was very easily chipped (we do a lot of highway driving).

The dealership is going to send it off to their reconditioning shop to have all stone chips, alignment and emblem issues addressed at no charge but, now my wife is suspicious of the car. She has a friend who took a picture of the car and claims that, by looking at the picture, he can tell that it isn't the original paint. He claims that new car's paint show up in pictures with some type of flecks while repainted car's paint comes off as flat. I think he's full of it but, now my wife is all upset, thinking she bought a previously damaged car that someone painted with inferior paint.
BTW: the Car fax came back clean; I know there are ways around that but, I am just pointing that out.

Is my wife's friend's picture / paint claim true? I assume that a BMW would be painted with BASF paint from the factory; what could cause a car's paint to be easily chipped? Could it be bad prep work, inferior paint, the paint wasn't baked and is still not cured?

What's so upsetting it this is / was my wife's dream car for years and years; a white BMW 3 series. Now she has it and all of these little things are taking some of the joy of ownership from her.

Any thoughts from the experts would be appreciated.