I think the biggest challenge I face is fixing up other people’s colours. What I mean by that is if a car has already been painted at some stage, it’s a fair bet that when I come to mix the colour it will not match, sometimes the difference is black and blue.
This is typical especially if a panel beater is involved and being paid by a tight arse car dealer. Quite often rather than mix up the colour from the code, they’ll use an off the shelf one (already had it mixed) that was left over from another car. They may have a bit of a play with it and “if in doubt blend it out”.
Why the bad colour match? Car dealers don’t car about the car, they want it fixed for as cheap as possible. Most people will not notice the colour differences until later on, if at all.
See the example at my Astra Colour Matching page.
So what happens is for example instead of one door getting painted, the whole side of the car does.
Because you can’t see both sides at the same time you’ll never know unless you spray the colour on a matching card and compare.
Here is a typical formula, which is a green. I think most of my competitors add more green to the colour when they need to make it “greener”.
That’s not how to colour match. Adding green to make a colour greener is NOT how to do it.
In a future posting, I’ll be showing you how to colour match.
This is important if you are painting your car!!
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