The Knobs
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 04:34 PM |
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How do i get matching paint colour?
My car is brg and want to know exactly which one to get as there are loads. Can I take a bit of panel somewhere to find out which brg it is?
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theprisioner
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 05:18 PM |
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I had exactly this problem with a red colour. I took it to the local professional car Paint Store. Some stores have electronic gizmo's and match
it by electronic spectrum analysis. My store has a very experienced guy with swatches and the daylight outside. He matched it exactly first time.
My mates said he has never matched anything in his life as he is colour blind. I think they were taking the wee however as I am very pleased with the
result.
http://sylvabuild.blogspot.com/
http://austin7special.blogspot.co.uk/
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 06:03 PM |
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I took a small piece of GRP to my local Halfords when I wanted to spray up a small item for my car - spent a boring 30 minutes looking through their
colour charts until I found the right one (Mercedes Signal Yellow!). The book has a hole in the centre of each colour chip that you can put over your
sample to get a direct comparison. They then mixed the colour in cellulose and made up a couple of spray cans for me - they were quite good cans, and
sprayed well.
This was a year or two ago - I presume that they still do it - although Halfords seemed much reduced last time I went in...
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wicket
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 06:14 PM |
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We have a company locally that can scan a colour sample and mix accordingly and put the paint in spray cans if thats what you want. Maybe you have
similar.
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The Knobs
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 08:25 PM |
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So better stick a bit of the car in the van and try and find an expert, or Halfrauds
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rash12
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 08:56 PM |
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we have Humberside paints they can match paint from a sample but probably to far from you
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 09:34 PM |
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I've tried 4 places that offer everything from the spectrum matching to visual old-timer matching processes and none of them ever managed to
match my plain white shade. Going to end up with a complete respray.
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The Black Flash
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| posted on 27/5/14 at 10:50 PM |
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I used an online place, can't remember the name but there are a few. You can send them in a bit of bodywork and they'll match it, I just
used an offcut bit of grp. Then they'll mix you some paint and put it in aerosols for you.
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