is silverstone hard to match??
04-28-2004, 08:15 AM
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is silverstone hard to match??
second time coming back from the body shop and the front bumper still doesnt match with the rest of the car........ shit they even blended the front end and it still doesnt match.
i need help cuz im really pissed
i need help cuz im really pissed
04-28-2004, 08:25 AM
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Damn, that sucks.
Any paint containing any amount of metalic flecks is really difficult to match. Everytime a new batch is mixed at the factory, there's gonna be a slightly different amount of flecks so the paint will look slightly different from one production run to the next. Rendering paint codes vertually useless.
A good body shop will take a paint code as a starting point and match the original paint by eye. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to match the factory paint perfectly, and being such a large piece right in the front of the car, the front bumper will never look exact...
Any paint containing any amount of metalic flecks is really difficult to match. Everytime a new batch is mixed at the factory, there's gonna be a slightly different amount of flecks so the paint will look slightly different from one production run to the next. Rendering paint codes vertually useless.
A good body shop will take a paint code as a starting point and match the original paint by eye. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to match the factory paint perfectly, and being such a large piece right in the front of the car, the front bumper will never look exact...
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04-28-2004, 10:30 AM
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white is a PITA....took 3 tries to get my lip matched. Who would have thought there would be so many shades of white?
Different brands of paint use different colors to match the same paint code. For instance, the PPG mixture for GPW had a blue element, while the DuPont mixture called for red.
Again, paint codes mean jack.....
The best places have Duplicolor. They take a laser and sample the paint on different parts of the car, then mixes a batch based on the shades calculated by samples.
Different brands of paint use different colors to match the same paint code. For instance, the PPG mixture for GPW had a blue element, while the DuPont mixture called for red.
Again, paint codes mean jack.....
The best places have Duplicolor. They take a laser and sample the paint on different parts of the car, then mixes a batch based on the shades calculated by samples.