Paint Thickness Meter CM-205FN | Best Mil Coating Depth Gauge Tester for Cars with Resol 0.01mil | F/NF Measuring

Very simple to use and affordably priced. I use it for bodywork, and it delivers excellent results!

When I first bought this, I wasn’t sure how to calibrate it, but the seller was very helpful. As it turns out, the device is already calibrated accurately from the factory and even includes a “Reset” button to easily restore the default settings. It’s absolutely perfect for measuring car 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.

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

The first one I received was previously opened and did not work correctly. I sent it back and got another one. It was new and unopened and worked correctly. The replacement item arrived quickly.

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!

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.