Thoughts on Millenium Yellow paint?
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From: Aspen Colorado
Thoughts on Millenium Yellow paint?
I wanted to ask you guys for your thoughts on painting my new front bumper and high rise hood. My vette is an '01 Z06 and the paint is Millenium Yellow. I have heard several horror stories about having new parts painted Mill. Yellow and the paint not matching. The new bumper is a Tiger Shark and the hood is an ACI high rise. There will quite possibly be a Caravaggio rear spoiler added as well before it goes to paint. I am debating between having just the new parts painted or possibly having to have the entire car painted. But cost will probably come into play. I am stuck up in the mountains in Colorado and the vette isn't going to see the light of day for another two months at least. When I can I am going to take it to get several estimates done for the painting. What sort of luck have others here had with Millenium Yellow? Should I expect the full paint job? Thanks for the input.
Mike
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From: walpole ma
Hi Mike, I have painted cars that color before. The reason it is a hard color to paint/match is because it is very transparent and every coat of color you put on actualy changes the hue of the paint.
That being said, I dont think you have to do a complete repaint.
The body shop doing the work,will have to spray test some test strips and then compare them to the car under a 3M lamp that simulates natural light, for matching purposes.
If they know what they are doing, eventualy they will get a sense of how many coats of base to put on the new parts to make a close match to the car, and as long as the panels have the SAME base color as the test strips they use, it will yield good results.
It is the only way to do this. The SPRAY AND PRAY method wont work with this color.!!!!!
Hope that helps
That being said, I dont think you have to do a complete repaint.
The body shop doing the work,will have to spray test some test strips and then compare them to the car under a 3M lamp that simulates natural light, for matching purposes.
If they know what they are doing, eventualy they will get a sense of how many coats of base to put on the new parts to make a close match to the car, and as long as the panels have the SAME base color as the test strips they use, it will yield good results.
It is the only way to do this. The SPRAY AND PRAY method wont work with this color.!!!!!
Hope that helps
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From: edmonton alberta
Hi Mike, I have painted cars that color before. The reason it is a hard color to paint/match is because it is very transparent and every coat of color you put on actualy changes the hue of the paint.
That being said, I dont think you have to do a complete repaint.
The body shop doing the work,will have to spray test some test strips and then compare them to the car under a 3M lamp that simulates natural light, for matching purposes.
If they know what they are doing, eventualy they will get a sense of how many coats of base to put on the new parts to make a close match to the car, and as long as the panels have the SAME base color as the test strips they use, it will yield good results.
It is the only way to do this. The SPRAY AND PRAY method wont work with this color.!!!!!
Hope that helps
That being said, I dont think you have to do a complete repaint.
The body shop doing the work,will have to spray test some test strips and then compare them to the car under a 3M lamp that simulates natural light, for matching purposes.
If they know what they are doing, eventualy they will get a sense of how many coats of base to put on the new parts to make a close match to the car, and as long as the panels have the SAME base color as the test strips they use, it will yield good results.
It is the only way to do this. The SPRAY AND PRAY method wont work with this color.!!!!!
Hope that helps
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From: portage indiana
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I had my side skirts painted by a friend(professional painter), he did one test panel brought it by to compare it then did adjustments before he painted them. they matched as far as i can tell.
