Car paint repairs – How do they colour match?

Mrs Spider’s car got damaged the other week and is having the scuff taken out of it tomorrow by AutoRestore courtesy of the other chap’s insurance.

They’ve got the reg number so they know what colour the car is, but how do they go about compensating for 11 years’ worth of fading?

“Built in Sharpener”

They come with alcoholic drinks for the parents now? Those Crayola people think of everything!

I think they scan the paint on the car in different places and then mix the colour to that rather than use just the original colour. Wheeler Dealers I think I saw that.

wwaswas – the crayons are outside the box because underneath that bright packaging is actually….

They will know the colour code and most likely blend into adjacent panels.
The panel next to the damaged will be polished which should take care of fading. Modern cars don’t fade much anyway. Non lacquered finish with lead in it was the worst culprit.

Depending on the colour of the car and the finish of the paint e.g solid, single stage, met colours, pearls they will approach it differently.

Basically they will paint what they think is the colour on the car (as given by paint code and scans) this will cover the damaged area, they will then fade this out over the good bit of the car, to blend the colour difference so its not noticeable.

Then this is where is changes between smart repairs and proper repairs. Proper repairs will then lacquer the whole panel affected. Smart repairs will cover as little as possible and then use blend out spray (this is basically thinners in a can, which attacks your lacquer and damages it, to get rid of the nasty masking lines, this is the main reason they fail after a short period of time)

There are so many variables which change the colour of the paint they are applying, like hand speed, distance from the panel, static on the car and sprayer, amount of car to spray, type of undercoat and lacquer, type of spray gun, manufacture of the paint, base and lacquer.

To put it simply, the paint they put on won’t match the rest of the car. How much you notice it, depends on how good the person doing it is!!!

Good luck with it

Binners

The wine is for after the colouring in ,or a hard days child care.

Smack the Pony did it