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A good paint and body shop can spot in a panel with out being able to tell where it was repaired. I had the dealer that I bought my 99 K1500 spot in a couple of areas on both doors. You can't tell where they worked on it as they used a urethane clear coat paint to recreate the OEM orange peel look of the finish. Mine is the Argent Silver Metallic and isn't easy to spot in. One great thing about black is the finish always matches ;-)

I would get some referrals on a shop and ask to see some of there work. I'm pretty picky about the finish on mine as well.

Brian

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Any decent body shop will be able to sand the scratched area down, fill in the scratched area to make it level with the rest, then re-paint just that area, blending the paint in with the surrounding area. You won't even know it was there to begin with.

Doc

Adding to Doc's post:

Sometimes the blended area has to be made a bit larger and expend onto an adjacent panel. Even on a black vehicle. Blacks are hued with, blue, yellow, orange, green. No one knows which paint was put on at the time of manufacture.

So sometimes a blend onto an adjacent panel is the only viable way to get an acceptable match.

But as Doc said: A good body man can make it look as if it were never touched!

Good luck and I hope this lessened your anxiety?

Refinish King

But couldn't the clear coat lead to a blistering problem if the entire panel wasn't painted?

V.B.

I have done much research today. I called a body shop which deals in only (by contract) exotic and luxury euro automobiles. (ferarri's, lamborghinis, etc....) They are apparantly the best in the city (vancouver, canada) They claim that a spot repair is not a good idea. They say to repaint the enire panel because over time the clearcoat will peel from the original clearcoat. c'mon guys.... lets dig up the pro's here...

Thanks! Rich

Well just go to the "PRO'S" first then next time you have a question. You'll probably be much more satisfied.

Brian