Why am I so picky about paint?

"Not a Sunburst Miata" (moezsayani) 10/05/2018 at 10:23 • Filed to: None

1

10

My BRZ was sideswiped, literally two days after i got it back from my tuner, and I dropped it off at my favorite body shop in Dallas, JP Euro. They have done killer work on some of my friends’ cars and my family’s cars. Unfortunately the K1X crystal white pearl on the BRZ is notoriously difficult to paint match and blend, so they’ve had the car for 3 weeks, and when I went to pick it up this morning, I saw a few blemishes I couldn’t overlook. Time for more paint work... I miss my baby. Photos attached.

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > Not a Sunburst Miata 10/05/2018 at 10:31

4

One reason to be picky is because whoever buys the car after you is going to be; especially so if it’s got an accident on the report. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Not a Sunburst Miata 10/05/2018 at 10:31

4

eh... if you’re paying for it you get to be picky (especially given what a decent paintjob costs)

sucks that the car will be gone longer tho

Not a Sunburst Miata > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 10/05/2018 at 10:36

3

I wasn’t planning on selling it, its too heavily modified for me to get any of my money back, and I love it too much to let some other fool touch it. 

Not a Sunburst Miata > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 10/05/2018 at 10:37

2

Insurance is taking care of everything, I didn’ t even have to pay the deductible since it was a hit and run i got on film.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Not a Sunburst Miata 10/05/2018 at 10:41

0

nice :) but you get what i mean

they’re getting paid enough for you to be picky about it :p

jimz > Not a Sunburst Miata 10/05/2018 at 10:44

0

isn’t that what blending is for? or is it that  hard to match?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > jimz 10/05/2018 at 10:53

0

The white on the BRZ and WRX is a multi part pearl paint. You cant really see it in photos but it has a lot of sparkle to it which makes it a massive pain in the ass to match the mix of the new paint to the old paint.

Not a Sunburst Miata > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 10/05/2018 at 11:14

0

This shop has the match down almost perfectly, its really just the small blemishes that annoyed me. 

Monkey B > Not a Sunburst Miata 10/05/2018 at 15:00

0

while pearls are slightly more difficult to deal with, it doesn’t add any real time to the process that would require them to keep the car any longer unless they rolled with it and pulled it outside to discover no match . More times than not it ’s a shop excuse for delay.

these days with water based base coats they often need to do test spray out panels with clear to be sure the color is correct. The water based base coats have a strange look before clear, many times showing a really blue side tone, so even n ormal colors can require them to do spray outs before where in the past it was usually only pearls and mid coat reds that required it. It also helps to use similar colored undercoats to OEM as they can have an effect as well.

Tapas > Not a Sunburst Miata 01/15/2019 at 13:41

0

That really sucks :(

Ask them to mix a larger batch of paint and keep the left overs for later.