Is this a car paint mismatch??

Originally Posted by wulfie

Thank you very mutch for pointing out that myself and most my work coulleges are a buntch of spanner weilding A*se twits? im sorry but can you respray a car?

I take my job really seriousley and I do all my work with care and pride just to come on and read this drivil......what a put down.

nways.......................

Yes most paint code's have various shade's of that code E.g - la7w is reflex silver for vw/audi

la7w is the code and for that code there are about 7 different shades of that silver to chose from.

Even if the piant guy pick a totally different shade there is no guarantee that it will come out right.

I would say take the car back get them to find the closest shade to the colour of the paintwork on the quarter and see how it turns out.

thanks for your thanks, but im not "pointing out that myself and most my work coulleges are a buntch of spanner weilding A*se twits?"

and the fact that i cant spray a car isnt the issue, i cant carry out breast augmentation surgery but i can tell a pair of wonky tits.

we arent arguing about it being a close match, that isnt a match in any sense of the word, and as you say "I would say take the car back get them to find the closest shade to the colour of the paintwork on the quarter and see how it turns out", thats because you as a trained tradesman can see that its not right,

the place that cars been taken to is an insurance approved (read hammered on the rates) garage, that even if the originall sprayer wanted to, the workshop manager wouldnt allow him to respray it, there just wouldnt be the money in the job.

as you say, most paint codes have several different sub codes, and as you know thats because no 2 batches of paint are not the same, no 2 cars will take the paint in the same way, no 2 cars will go off in the same way, theres 2 many variables, humidity, paint temp , panel temp, different batches of paint, different batches of laquer, skill of the sprayer.

but i stand by by comment that a decent paint shop wouldnt let that work out, wheras one whos bound by time and cost restraints put on them by an insurance assessor that wont sign off a respray and a workshop manager trying to clear his jobs will.

Just to add, my Skoda needed an entirely new bumper, it was that funny bluish-grey colour. The new bumper matched PERFECTLY. And when my Celica got pranged recently, where it's been resprayed you can't tell.

So while a perfect match isn't possible, they certainly can and should do better than that.

Originally Posted by metalangel

Just to add, my Skoda needed an entirely new bumper, it was that funny bluish-grey colour. The new bumper matched PERFECTLY. And when my Celica got pranged recently, where it's been resprayed you can't tell.

So while a perfect match isn't possible, they certainly can and should do better than that.

yup we just had a front 3/4 repair done on a 9yr old Passat, youd have to really know what youre looking for to know its had a new front end, matching is where the skill is.