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Resprayed door and side of car

Hello,

I had the drivers door and side of my car re-sprayed last September. It's a dark metallic green colour and, when it's in the sun, it looks noticeably lighter than the rest of the car.

The question is this.... Is it hard to get a good match on this sort of colour? It cost about £350 to have it done, so is it likely that the garage are going to honour their work and try to make it match after this long?

Any opinions or ideas would be greatly appreciated before I go back to them.

Thanks,

Pete

Reply to
DesignElect
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Yes, that's cheap, only if you're lucky

Reply to
Duncan Wood

Any reputable company will have given you a guarantee but this is a different matter.

If the colour is wrong they did not do a proper job in the first place so take it back and ask them to make it good.

Reply to
Alan

Same here, on my BMW, at a main dealer.

Reply to
Dave Plowman

Its not a flip pearl and meant to do that?

Adam

Reply to
Adam Aglionby

Not same here, on my Volvo, in the back yard of a car body repairer I know.

(OK, there was a mismatch at first, but it polished it out.)

It can be hard to match metallics...I don't think there'll be much you can do.

Reply to
Sean

My Father is a "bodyshop technician" or as it used to be called, a panel beater.

It is hard to match metallics, as they dry a completely different shade, and you cant always follow the manufacturers quantities as there are several variants.

But if he finds it dries to the wrong shade, he rectifies it, albeit after a bit of cursing!

im not sure how your rights stand after such a long time, as for all the garage knows, you could have had it sprayed elsewhere. Did you not check the car when it was returned? Normally a garage give the customer a chance to check the work, and sign for it.

Good luck anyways!

Reply to
Hannah

The big snag is slight paint mismatches don't always show up under all types of light. A bright but overcast day is best.

Reply to
Dave Plowman

Good point.... mine only shows up when the sun's shining directly on it and the garage where it was sprayed is in a shady courtyard.

Thanks for all the help,

Pete

Reply to
DesignElect

Yep. Its not so much the colour match rather than the "flow" of the=20 particles. You need to get the whole side resprayed ideally on a=20 metallic car to get a good match. Colour match is very hard especially=20 on paint more than a couple of years old and has been weathered.

Probably not.

Forget it.

--=20 Conor

If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything=20 worthwhile.

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Conor

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