Abstract
This paper deals with an issue that car owners are facing increasingly more (after the coatings of car bodies increasingly thinner in the manufacturer's process - for economic and financial reasons) in the conditions in which warranty complaints relating to the ability of the coating to preserve the aesthetic qualities of the car exterior surface, grow. The theme paper highlights a set of measurements of the cars body element left rear wing "directly correlated with the reference of an one year earlier similar production car, and draw conclusions through the simulation in a virtual environment, related to the uniformity coating thickness and framing of the car body element / within the limits assumed by the manufacturer - thus identifying potential areas with lower resistance to the aggressive factors of the environment.
Keywords: automotive body frame, coating, virtual environment, forensic expertise.