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[warning634]

Hi guys

I'm looking for some advice about some areas of my mini which I need to re-spray. But what I don't know is should I be re-spraying the entire panel or can I get away with just the area that needs it.





Front panel and stuttle panel need painting too



Any advice on this would be great.

Thanks

Kevin

[TopCatCustom]

I sprayed patches on my first mini after doing minor repairs, looked like a patchwork quilt! And it doesn't matter how much you think the paint is a perfeect match, it never is. Doing the whole panel(s) is much better, beware doing say a rear quarter and not the door on the same side will show up a colour mis-match as they butt up to each other on the flat, so you often have to do more than just the one panel to get a good finish.

[ibrooks]

The problem with making patch repairs is matching the existing paint. We can clearly read NGK where a sticker has been removed and that suggests it's faded. Any new paint you apply will be the original colour and won't match the stuff on the car because that's all a shade or two lighter now - and it's almost certainly faded in an uneven way, it's just not obvious because it graduates. I'd bet that if you cut a square out from low down and held it against the roof the difference would be quite visible. One of the nice things about a Mini is that it's fairly easy to paint a single panel by masking along the seams but again I'd bet the painted panels would stand out like a sore thumb. See if you can get some paint and paint something else with it to do a comparison.

Iain