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Raider... paintwork....plea
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glenn_adam_doble
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Full Respray is usually the only option they struggle with the colour match more than the Matt finish, the paint code is more blue than the actual car colour
I’ve owned #3 for the last 6 years so know the pain I’ve have a front bumper blown over and it’s never quite right
I have a extra paint excess on my insurance if i need to claim, might be worth looking into if you you are going through insurance and have protected no claims
I’ve owned #3 for the last 6 years so know the pain I’ve have a front bumper blown over and it’s never quite right
I have a extra paint excess on my insurance if i need to claim, might be worth looking into if you you are going through insurance and have protected no claims
Rojer
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A good body shop will have a gun (i think its a spectral analysis gun) which they can put on various panels of the car and it will analysis the paint. It will then base the formula they mix the paint to so it matches 100% Other body shops may do spray out cards and check the match.
Martin_172
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My mate has an M3 in a very similar colour, Matt finish, he got his rear bumper done after it was hit at a place in Central Scotland who matched it perfectly first time, flawless job, they have just done a full side of my mates m140 after it got keyed too and it's flawless http://www.fozsports.co.uk
Darren S
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Hi chaps and thanks for the tag. Sorry for the delay! Day job takes a lot of my time these days!
Where are you based? We specialised in troublesome finishes and standard paint. Matte, satin, plastic paint / waterborne (see lotus matte black b21 code) and Tri coat and 4 stage pearls.
Matte paint is no harder to match than any other. It's harder to get right but the colour itself is the same as any other paint used on any other car. The matte effect comes from the clearcoat.
The raider posted above is just a poor bodyshop not going the extra mile to match a colour.
A spectrometer also won't work as it uses angles and gradients from spec and reflectivity to determine close colour matches. It may help but truly the only way to do it is start from the base colour and make your own. We ( Protek Bathgate) spend days designing our own colours for even the most mainstream cars.
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Where are you based? We specialised in troublesome finishes and standard paint. Matte, satin, plastic paint / waterborne (see lotus matte black b21 code) and Tri coat and 4 stage pearls.
Matte paint is no harder to match than any other. It's harder to get right but the colour itself is the same as any other paint used on any other car. The matte effect comes from the clearcoat.
The raider posted above is just a poor bodyshop not going the extra mile to match a colour.
A spectrometer also won't work as it uses angles and gradients from spec and reflectivity to determine close colour matches. It may help but truly the only way to do it is start from the base colour and make your own. We ( Protek Bathgate) spend days designing our own colours for even the most mainstream cars.
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