Fu Manchu
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Right. Back on topic OP.I recently bought a genuine Holden ute pre-painted hard lid in Red Hot (Sting Red) and the paint didn't match the body colour, the hard lid had a brownish tint. To my surprise under Holden parts warranty, they agreed the colour was mismatched and they (Holden) sent me to a supposedly excellent panel shop with a PPG paint system to repaint the hard lid and remedy the colour mismatch. I use an awesome panel shop who are a manufacture approved repairers for a luxury car brand, but I had to use the panel shop being a parts warranty job that Holden chose.
Here's the job from this "excellent" panel shop who didn't remedy the colour mismatch, they mismatched the colour more than in was originally and made it worse. Instead of having a brownish tint, they repainted it a custom orange! This is what happens when your car ends up at a substandard repairer who can't match paint and do the job properly.
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Here's a close up, awesome job!! Imagine this mob doing an insurance job on the front guard, they'd be blending their "custom orange" down to the taillight, across the bonnet and ruin your car. Alternatively, I should have just taken it to my panel shop and paid them $1000 to fix it.
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my neighbour is a spray painter by trade. His family business recently closed down after decades of car repairs and spray painting in Perth. A sad day that one.
He was PPG trained too. He just took one look at this and laughed. He said, “LOL, you know what they’ve done there. They haven’t mixed colour into the base coat. You have to do a red pigment through the base coat on that. The paints are too thin to do otherwise. It’s not like the old days. They’ve got the PPG colour mix right. They’ve laid it down on the wrong base coat. Take it back. No good spray painter would do that”