How do you get a paint match if someone has changed the colour previously? Its driving me insane.. the paints are totally different from the one i got using the paint code!!
Bad Paint Match
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Clayman
, May 13 2006 12:12 PM
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Posted 13 May 2006 - 12:17 PM
i think halfords do a paint match service for their rattle cans. so you might want to try that. i'm going to assume the paints been faded from being in the sun making colour matching a pain. so you can either repaint the entire car or just keep trying to get the colour matched.
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Posted 13 May 2006 - 07:25 PM
look in your yellow pages for a paint match shop. maybe a brown brothers or similar. Take a part of the car (or the car?) with you, and they will find a match!
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Posted 14 May 2006 - 08:30 AM
even better, look for an ici approved bodyshop and they can take a laser to your car and zap it for the colour match, only problem with that is it costs loads, lol
otherwise goto car paint supplies and they will try to match as close as they can.
if the paint has faded then it will be harder to do.
otherwise goto car paint supplies and they will try to match as close as they can.
if the paint has faded then it will be harder to do.
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Posted 14 May 2006 - 07:20 PM
Yip, as abov, but try polishing a section of the car.
Nip into halfords and get some rubbing comound/cutting paste.
Apply it with a cloth and keep the paint body wet at all times.
This will cut away the faded paint and expose closer to the true colour below.
You would be surprised and how much colour changes with age.
Else it could be that the car has been resprayed a few shades out of the riginal colour.
What colour is the car ? and where did you get the paint your are spraying ?
If you had it mixed up, again because the quantity is small it is not uncommon to have
a different shade.
On many occasions I have had paint mixed up for cars and had to send for more as the mix was wrong.
The best way you can mathc it is to have it zapped as mentioned above.
they will then mix it up to that shade. Basically what b+q do for home paints.
Good luck..
Nip into halfords and get some rubbing comound/cutting paste.
Apply it with a cloth and keep the paint body wet at all times.
This will cut away the faded paint and expose closer to the true colour below.
You would be surprised and how much colour changes with age.
Else it could be that the car has been resprayed a few shades out of the riginal colour.
What colour is the car ? and where did you get the paint your are spraying ?
If you had it mixed up, again because the quantity is small it is not uncommon to have
a different shade.
On many occasions I have had paint mixed up for cars and had to send for more as the mix was wrong.
The best way you can mathc it is to have it zapped as mentioned above.
they will then mix it up to that shade. Basically what b+q do for home paints.
Good luck..
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Posted 17 May 2006 - 01:46 PM
Im having the same problem where my bike fell off the rack and scratch a little off my boot door!!!!Is it only large halfords stores because i dont think Eveshams,Despite being a large store does matching!
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