Paint Thickness Gauge Meter Fe/NFe Probe Coating Thickness Gauge Professional Multifunctional Car Paint Depth Gauge Test Precise HW-300PRO for Car Automatic Detection(black) (black)

I’m an avid auto enthusiast, and love buying cars (typically used) although not a huge fan of selling them. I am a fan of buying a car that has never been repainted in any way, much less in an accident. It gives me peace of mind that the car has no dark history.I’ve used paint meters in the past, but I left my “old” one at our 2nd home, and have been itching to buy a car locally. So I thought it was worth the effort to get a replacement meter. This is a nice meter on several levels, and it provides a kit to calibrate it. That just allows you to double check that the meter is functioning. In reality, when using a paint meter on a car, the idea isn’t so much about the specific thickness of the paint, but more the consistency from panel to panel. So it doesn’t matter to me if the paint is 7 microns thick or 5.3 microns thick so long as that is a reasonably consistent number from panel to panel. As I understand it, it is REALLY difficult for a local paint shop to get the thickness/consistency that the robots get at the factory.As I tested my SUV of 12 years, and since I know it’s full history, I got consistent readings , as expected. I double checked the meter by re-measuring the same place a couple times, and got consistency. So, this works perfectly for me. It is simple to setup and use for anyone.PROS: consistent readings, ability to calibrate with provided mediumsCONS: none (wish it came with batteries though…)ACCURACY OF AMAZON LISTING: highBOTTOM LINE: nice meter, good priceOf course, I’ll update this review should anything change.

It's a good product, but it took me a long time to figure out the calibration, because no one told me that before pressing a key combination, the device should be turned off Xd

I love measuring things and this one is a new level for me. It measures paint or any coating thickness over metal. This is really good for checking if car paint work has been done. You look for consistent thickness on roof vs. doors vs. quarter panels. It will not do bumper covers and body plastics but it still can give you an overall idea if a door has been smashed in and repaired. Easy to use and a big display although it would make much more sense for the display to be rotated 180 degrees based on how you press the device against the panel being tested but I'm not going to mark it down in stars for my personal preferences. Setup instructions are not clear for calibrating. Common foreign language converted to English by a machine or a human that is not native speaking English. This took a couple of tries for me reading through the text so I will try a summary here1. Hold down um/mm mils key and press and release center ON button. This puts you in calibration mode2. spread out each of the calibration plates that are included and marked3. the device display will display the number for the plate it is expecting a scan of. .05mm,.50mm,1mm, etc.4. scan each of those by pressing down on the plate with the button at the bottom of the device and you will get two beeps5. scan each plate and the display will tell you when you're doneActually quite easy after you do it once.Overall a solid tester and I've had a lot of fun with it just checking random cars.

I got this device to measure the paint thickness on older cars we would consider for purchase. Comparing the difference in paint thickness on various panels can indicate any number of repairs or repainting performed.It works really well but must first be calibrated correctly which was initially a little confusing.Included in the package are 6 pieces of plastic samples of various thickness from .05mm to 2mm as well as an aluminum plate to place them on for calibration. After performing the 1st initial calibration procedure my unit proved to be very accurate in measuring the paint thickness on various cars.The aluminum plate simulates the cars base metal and the 6 plastic pieces serve to calibrate a range of paint thickness.The calibration process includes :A) Placing the aluminum plate and the 6 plastic samples in order. (You will be placing each thickness of plastic on top of the aluminum to take successive measurements.)B) Putting the device in calibration mode. ( While holding down the "up" key press the Power on key.) It's now ready to sequentially calibrate the aluminum and the 6 pieces of plastic one by one.C) Place the unit on the aluminum plate, wait for the beep and it should read "0" i.e. no thickness.D) Next place each of the 6 plastic pieces one by one on top of the aluminum plate and wait for the beep indicating the thickness measurement has been made.After the total of 7 measurements, Aluminum plate and 6 plastic thicknesses is made The word "End" will appear in the display indicating successful calibration.Note : The unit reads in um, mm and mils (Thousands of an inch) and defaults to um when turning it on. Pushing the "up" button cycles it thru the 3 units, make certain you are reading the correct units. It defaults to mm in the calibration mode as the test samples are in mm.The rest of the instructions are pretty typical and clearly written, the construction is high quality and the unit I received was accurate as far as I could determine on the few cars, a refrigerator, outdoor grill etc. that were sampled. So, highly recommended at it's price point.