Matching paint
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From: Jennings LA
Matching paint
After redoing the nose due to a crack and rock chips and some one tapping it with a bumper in a parking lot, I pulled the nose off and fixed everything including new light bulb connections.
Got the paint at a local store matching the numbers for my Silver 03 and the other mixes of clear and catalysts.
Still, the nose and the head light cover I repaint came out just a touch darker than the rest of the car.
I'll probably repaint it this Summer as I already have new rock chips , So, would it be better to just get the paint and clear kits from an online paint store?
Any recommendations would be read and stored. I use to paint motorcycles so kinda like doing my own thing even at my 75 yr old age. Just never painted one piece and hoped it would match.
Burning Brakes
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With quicksilver you might as well just sell the car.
Its impossible to match. Even with the correct ‘blend code’ there were 9 different shading options.
Wait, you aren’t done there. Quicksilver lays very thin and the mottling in the factory paint is a problem. The lighter spots between the mottle is actually the color of the primer underneath.
Theeeeeen because it’s a metallic the flakes lay differently so at a certain angle, it will look lighter or darker than the panel next to it.
Just blend it you say? Ah, but you see it’s impossible to replicate the poor factory mottle so when you actually have it done correctly the coverage is uniform and doesn’t quite look right, so you can tell it’s been painted anyhow.
After having the same part painted twice, the second time by an extremely high end exotic repair shop - who asked to please not be named ever as they refused to paint it as it wouldn’t ever be 100% and would only respray the car (they finally gave in under the no name condition)...I eventually have given up. It’s close enough. Looks decent.
Im secretly hoping I get hammered at an intersection hard enough to write the car off or get a full respray - it’s cheaper to sell and just get a different c5.
Its impossible to match. Even with the correct ‘blend code’ there were 9 different shading options.
Wait, you aren’t done there. Quicksilver lays very thin and the mottling in the factory paint is a problem. The lighter spots between the mottle is actually the color of the primer underneath.
Theeeeeen because it’s a metallic the flakes lay differently so at a certain angle, it will look lighter or darker than the panel next to it.
Just blend it you say? Ah, but you see it’s impossible to replicate the poor factory mottle so when you actually have it done correctly the coverage is uniform and doesn’t quite look right, so you can tell it’s been painted anyhow.
After having the same part painted twice, the second time by an extremely high end exotic repair shop - who asked to please not be named ever as they refused to paint it as it wouldn’t ever be 100% and would only respray the car (they finally gave in under the no name condition)...I eventually have given up. It’s close enough. Looks decent.
Im secretly hoping I get hammered at an intersection hard enough to write the car off or get a full respray - it’s cheaper to sell and just get a different c5.
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Oh well, kinda what I figured Thanks. I did order primer, paint and clear coat yesterday as this Summer I need to redo it for some rock chips and attempt to do a better job as per overspray and a couple runs. And do both head light covers so they match being off. LOL. It's never gonna be a show car so being off at bit is no big deal. At 120K miles on the clock, it do get driven very often.
Drifting
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Paint technology has changed quite a bit in the past few decades.
When I had portions of my Nassau Blue Metallic re-sprayed it was computer-color matched - not paint code matched - and then blended. It would have probably been ideal to have the paint computer matched utilizing say one of the front fenders with existing paint, and then after spray performing a proper blend to the fenders, headlight doors, and hood.
I can tell you doing it this was my car was painted to match 101%, including amount & direction of the flake and the subsequent color hue property Nassau Blue takes on in regards to appearing slightly purple at night. You wouldn't know it was re-painted unless I told you.
When I had portions of my Nassau Blue Metallic re-sprayed it was computer-color matched - not paint code matched - and then blended. It would have probably been ideal to have the paint computer matched utilizing say one of the front fenders with existing paint, and then after spray performing a proper blend to the fenders, headlight doors, and hood.
I can tell you doing it this was my car was painted to match 101%, including amount & direction of the flake and the subsequent color hue property Nassau Blue takes on in regards to appearing slightly purple at night. You wouldn't know it was re-painted unless I told you.
