Colour matching

[SAMO-87]

Hey all,

When I first bought my car (from a dealer) it appeared that the paint was very good. Few little scratches, but nothing major.

It wasn't until I got it home and under different light, that I noticed the front bar was a different shade compared with the rest of the car.

Not being content with that, I had a mobile guy come out and respray the bar. He said to me at the time of completetion that he couldn't match it on both sides of the bar, to the rest of the car. It appears as though one side of the car is a different shade to the other. I can't tell if it has had a respray in the past, but I would say it hasn't.

I've attached a pic of how it looks now. With the flash on, you can really see the difference in colour..

What are peoples thoughts on what I should do? Someone suggested getting a panel beater to blend the bar into the body shades, as to appear all the same...

Cheers,
Sam

 

[soop]

Plastic bars always look different. Always.

Has something to do with the different static between the Metal and plastic. I've painted the whole front end of cars before at the same time, and still the bar looks different.

 

[davey g-force]

I've seen heaps of VE's and other new cars that have different shades in their plastic bars too. And these are NEW cars! Surely there must be a way around it.
More noticeable on certain colours than on others.
..Luckily black isn't one of them lol...

 

[soop]

you can get around it a little by using a sympathetic ground coat. I.e a colour close to the finish colour. That some times helps it, but 9 times out of ten it wont really.

 

[Philthy]

A good painter could probably blend that. Is that really the colour of the other side of the car? Its a totally different colour! I'd be surprised if half of it hadn't been painted before

 

[383 hatch]

Yeh, pretty standard really, as soop said they will always "appear" to be a different colour even if painted at the same time with the same paint. Just the nature of the beast with plastic bumpers unfortunately.

 

[Philthy]

Have a look through a few "my ride" threads and come back with how many bars you see that badly matched. There's no way thats just because of the different materials. The difference that makes is so minute that the average consumer will never notice it. Hell, most average car nuts never pick the difference

 

[383 hatch]

If i look in the VE section, nearly every car will have different colour bumpers. Photos are terrible for colours anyway, some look bad, some look good.

 

[soop]

totally depends on the colour.

You might get a better match if you have it resprayed. maybe. But for $300+ is it worth it?