mav
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is it FLAME RED..
becasue I have been spraying jacking point covers for skirts and the colour looks off...not just cause maybe a bit faded but well off...
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Colin
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Reds a really difficult colour to match mav
Yeah thats flame red......
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jr
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it certainly looks it, comparing the pics to fad corsa which is also Flame red
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mav
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cheers..
will wait till i've laquered them and see what the match is like...
might not notice too much as they are front Jacking point covers...
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Paul H
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absolute knightmare colour to paint mav especially if you use cans
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mav
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yeah just cans..
primer/paint/laquer
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Paul H
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you don't normally laquer flame red it makes the paint darker
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mav
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does it?
I've not laquered it yet...HAd about 3 coats of paint.............I'll see what it's like in morning then...cheers m8.
need to take colour coded handles off and repaint as they look too orangey.. (i never painted these though)
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mav
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Paul H
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yeah it goes alot darker when laquered.i panted my steiny grille with halfords flame red and no laquer.looks spot on

used the same tin for the boot handle except i laquered it and look how far out it is
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mav
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cheers ...will wait and see and not laquer it......
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corsa_godfather
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u only laquer pearlecent paints
white black red etc dont need it
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Twiggy
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Flame red.... that black int?
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broster
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good luck with painting a flame red car, if it matches in the day light wait till you park it under a street light!
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ikky
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yea you do not laquer flame red.
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antscorsa
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i used laquer and it came out ok. best bet tho mav is to juts keep painting and sanding down the red paint till u get a good finsh, wont really matter with somethign as small as jacking point covers
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antscorsa
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i thnk the colour primer makes a diff too
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Gregor
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quote: Originally posted by antscorsa
i thnk the colour primer makes a diff too
Definetly does .
Halfords recomend red primer , with red paint . Don't go by this as you get a much . much darker finish , and it looks cack 
I sprayed my lock surround with grey primer , and the paint is still slightly different , so I would reccomend white primer .
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glasgow_corsa_c
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theres foookibn shit loads of diff shades of flame red mav.
i had a bastard of a time getting the right match on my corsa c.
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Marc
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I sprayed part of my wing when i first got my flame red corsa sport. I used halfords red primer followed by the flame red. It was sanded down inbetween. The only mismatch was where the new paint joined the old paint.
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Garnz
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i worked at a car paint supplier and when i went to match my paint Flame Red there are about 5 different shades its strange. Id try your local car paint supplier to match it for ya
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Red_SXi
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Send them to me and i'll paint them with 2Pak flame red if you like Mav, its a very good match, all of my kit and arches was sprayed in this colour:

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Red_SXi
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quote: Originally posted by Garnz
i worked at a car paint supplier and when i went to match my paint Flame Red there are about 5 different shades its strange. Id try your local car paint supplier to match it for ya
I don't know what paint supplier you worked for, but there is only 1 flame red. There are lots of star silvers, but only 1 flame red. Its been the same colour for years and years, the only reason older cars look different is cos they have faded and need mopping
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mav
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I did use the red primer then flame red paint.
They do look quite dark, going to sand down and paint again and see what happens. It's only jacking point covers so you may not notice if it's slightly off.
Cheers redsxi i'll keep that in mind. But I'll give it another go myself and see how they come out, I'm not in a rush so will do the whole process again..
cheers for comments guys..........
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mav
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quote: Originally posted by REDSPORT
Flame red.... that black int?
there is a couple of vaux reds...............
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