Colour Coded Paint (Halfords) appears very dark...

[DanS1982]

Just put the final coat of paint on my door strips and they have come out very dark compared to the original paint. I know it fades but the difference is huge! Colour Code D44 (from halfords mixed range). Not only this it seems to be a darker shade of blue anyway!

Question is - I used grey primer, would spraying a coat of white then the top coat lighten it up at all?

Also, as halfords obviously cant match for sh*t (going my search results on here), can anyone else recommend where to get D44 (Metalic blue) paint colour from?

Cheers,
Dan

 

[Cro]

I had the same problem, good to hear that it wasnt my spraying i thought i had used too much paint. hopefully you get a good answer

 

[mossyv6]

Very hit and miss with colour matching from Halfords i'm afraid

Had to go to AutoSupplies in the end and they got the colour spot on.

I know it's going to be expensive but can Renault not do you some?

 

[Sport182]

Try this place!

https://www.paintscratch.com

 

[Cro]

they dont do D44. I wonder if it was the clearcoat that darkened the paint? mine looked fine when i had it sprayed and tested against the car but after the clearcoat like a different colour

 

[Sport182]

Opppps sorry, they don't actually do any Renault paint.

Shame because they have been really good.

 

[DanS1982]

they dont do D44. I wonder if it was the clearcoat that darkened the paint? mine looked fine when i had it sprayed and tested against the car but after the clearcoat like a different colour

Mine was wrong before I even got to the laquar / clearcoat. I guess autopaint.co.uk is the one to go for then?

Anyone got an exact match of D44 from there?

 

[Beef-Mc]

autopaint.co.uk was the place I was going to suggest.