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Steve
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1st Nov 07 at 16:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Which are the easiest, or which is the easiest paint colour to match when spraying a car?

everytime i take me car to the body they have said because its X colour you'l be best having it blended.

The colours iv taken are

Yellow
Holographic grey

The grey was a semi flip so was to be expected and the yellow is apparently a very thin colour so is difficult to match

what colours are the easiest to match?
Rob B
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White
Robin
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Non-metallic grey or blue
M2RTY
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i was told by the guy who supplied my paint that white is a bitch to match
Jonny P
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quote:
Originally posted by M2RTY
i was told by the guy who supplied my paint that white is a bitch to match


i would have thought that aswell.
coke-gsi16v
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black+purples arent bad
silver,white+red are badgers
Dan.H
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to do it properly every job should be blended,but standard black is the easiest
Steve X16XE
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
White


Deffo not.

My mates MK2 Astra is white and it's gone back in to get all it's panels resprayed coz it looks black and white
Rob B
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my bodyshop says white is piece of piss
Graeme
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depends what your doing it with, every colour is different on every mixing scheme, best colour is just straight black as there is just one tinter to it.

Hardest colours are silvers, yellows, reds, all thing that fade aswell.

what you try to paint, also with yellow depending on what colour u do the primer you need to nutralise the colour first some times.
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
my bodyshop says white is piece of piss


not really, white can be a bitch as it goes all horiible shitty colour and can go very yellow, if you need to paint it you need to mop the panel and adjacent panels before preping them.
Dan.H
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from personal experience id say whites the worst
corsa sam
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I work in a garage and yellow is a cnut never comes out the right colour edge to edge and said black is pretty easy as they are all similar. Silvers are a pain along with red
CorsAsh
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
my bodyshop says white is piece of piss
That the bodyshop who took three (or more?) attempts to get your silver bonnet right?
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red doesnt matter how good the paint job is stick the car at night under a street light and you will see a mixture of reds if its been resprayed at parts
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
my bodyshop says white is piece of piss


Your body work is 8 years old and his is 16 years old. So i'd think that the shades might be off on his coz it's faided.
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quote:
Originally posted by cunningham
red doesnt matter how good the paint job is stick the car at night under a street light and you will see a mixture of reds if its been resprayed at parts


 
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