All Things Mk5 > Mk5 General Area

How do I get a good paint match?

<< < (3/5) > >>

stealthwolf:
When I scraped my car (two weeks after buying it) across both doors, I was gutted. But took it to a bodyshop that specialises in higher-end cars like Audis, Porsches, Jags etc and it cost me £500 to fix. Yup £500.

Soon after I'd had the respray, I told a coupla mates I scraped one of the doors and had it resprayed. Neither of them could tell me which one it was, even with £££ riding on it.

Moral of the story: If you want a perfect job, you'd better dig deep and pay top dollar for it.

MK1Campaign:
There are different variants to most colours.
The bodyshop needs to check these variants against the actual paint on the car to see which one matches best.

Saying this you never get a perfect match from plastic to metal panel eg bumper to wing as the paint sits slightly different.

xxx_mojo_xxx:
These three different variants you talk about - what additional colours do they mix in to get the three variants?

MK1Campaign:

--- Quote from: xxx_mojo_xxx on April 10, 2009, 09:39:53 pm ---These three different variants you talk about - what additional colours do they mix in to get the three variants?

--- End quote ---

There isnt necesserly 3 variants. There could be more or less.
The paint mixing scheme they have tells them how to mix.
The dont mix in additional colours to the original formula.
Hope this makes sense.

xxx_mojo_xxx:
Still don't understand...when mixing the paint they must have to blend in a number of different substances/colours?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page