paint

[buzz62]

three attempts at matching the paint on my Z 1 by me and 2 by the body shop, it had a new wing and bumper , these have now been painted three times

and no perfect match, they are now going to do a spray test before the 4th attempt , anyone else had problems matching paint?

 

orange paint

[rtbiscuit]

i know with the silver when i had mine painted there were 5 paint cards for my paint code. zed paint is not easy to match.

[Lexx]

I have yet to see a Zed that has had extensive spraying have an absolutely perfect match.

[cmck13]

You will never get that impossible dream, my paint jobs change daily from spot on to crap depending on the daylight.

[helimeddaz]

If its Tempur Orange mate, you'll need a lot of luck to get a match. Mine under artifficial light is mad to look at. All the metal is one colour and the plastic is another.

 

The paint is a number of processes. Colour, Tint Pearl and laquer. They should do about 10 spray out test cards and if they're on the ball use a Microspectrophotometer (Impressive eh ) to get as close as can be had.

 

Good luck.

[buzz62]

its just having the 4th attempt polished and then we shall see , i think this may be the one

the paint supplier ended up having to do some spray tests to get the match , i'll keep you posted on how well it worked

[Wasso]

I have yet to see a Zed that has had extensive spraying have an absolutely perfect match.

 

Spursmaddave had a perfect match and likewise with others that went to TGM. Clearly professionals in the trade

[buzz62]

well i got what i consider to be a perfect match , i'll take some pictures and let you guys see, an important part

of getting a good match is to make sure you use white udercoat

[mattbowey]

I have yet to see a Zed that has had extensive spraying have an absolutely perfect match.

 

My Zed had extensive spraying and the colour is a perfect match all round (apart from the carbon bits and stone chips)

 

[Tarmac@TarmacSportz]

Yeah but you have had the whole car done Matt lol

 

Matching eight year old panels to new paint is pretty hard nigh on impossible.

[buzz62]

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v615/ ... car006.jpg

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v615/ ... car005.jpg

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v615/ ... car002.jpg

here she is in all her glory

[buzz62]

[adam1942]

If you go to somewhere with good equipment they will scan the car to give an exact colour match. This takes in to affect the fade of the colour over time. My dad did this with my Renaultsport Clio 197 which was 5 years old and when it was sprayed it was a perfect match(he works for a car part place which sells paint).

[sparky370z]

Looks pretty good to me.

 

Happy days