JaseTheTaff Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Hi folks So I've picked up a facelift bumper for my Glanza (finally!) but it's in silver and my car is white so I'll have to get it re-sprayed. Now the problem I have know for a fact my car has had a re-spray at some point and looking at the colour under the bonnet they have used a slightly different shade of white ( I had no idea such a thing existed) Now I've spoke to the guy I got the car off and he said there was no receipt for it and that it was sprayed in japan before he imported it. So I'm wondering is there a way that a body shop could match the colour? or would it simply be either a case of trying their best to match the colour by eye? or re-spray the whole car? either that or I take my old bumper down B&Q and use the colour matcher and get a big tin of emulsion Cheers peeps Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gainzy Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 There is hundreds of shades of white 040 super white 2 is our shade people think our shade is laquered but it's not. You will never get an exact match because bumper plastic is a different texture to metal as they absorb different. The silver will have to be taken off all reprimed again. They body or paint shop will have a colour swatch wait for a sunny day after a polish to go see what they can do. Also white paint should be a stirred mix and not shaken. It's a delicate process! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted May 20, 2017 Author Share Posted May 20, 2017 There is hundreds of shades of white 040 super white 2 is our shade people think our shade is laquered but it's not. You will never get an exact match because bumper plastic is a different texture to metal as they absorb different. The silver will have to be taken off all reprimed again. They body or paint shop will have a colour swatch wait for a sunny day after a polish to go see what they can do. Also white paint should be a stirred mix and not shaken. It's a delicate process! Nice one dude! I thought it would be tricky. Yeah I figured it would have to be all stripped down and what have you. I assume when you say white paint needs to be stirred your talking about the car paint and not the emulsion lol thanks again mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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