Passenger door a different shade?

beetlebailey

Does anyone else think the passenger door looks a bit dodgy?
It appears to be a different shade in three of the photos.I`m interested in it but door is putting me off veiwing as its a bit of a journey to the dealer so don`t want to waste my time. What do you think?

http://www.cbg.ie/Car_Detail.aspx?ID=3663011

bazz26

Yep, looks it to me:

Henry Ford III

Why not just ask the dealer has it been painted and if so why?

p.s. A petrol XTrail is an awful choice.

Yawns

it is a dif colour. If your still interested try to get a further reduction and clear details as to why the door panel has been replaced. If you can get it in writing do so. Should you ever find out in 2 weeks that it was hit in the side by another car/bike and the dealer didn't inform you you would have a leg to stand on.

Hagar

Common enough issue if a car was keyed and repaired. I was told it is very difficult to get an exact match with some metallics.

beetlebailey

69 wrote: »

Common enough issue if a car was keyed and repaired. I was told it is very difficult to get an exact match with some metallics.

Maybe so but I couildn`t live with it, it would bug me everytime.

Stoolbend

Silver can be a very hard colour to match.

Hagar

I have a vague recollection of a thread about a car getting keyed on alternate panels, front wing, skip door, rear door, skip back wing. The insurance would only pay for the spraying of the damaged panels not the whole side to match the colour and the car ended up like a chess board.

Yawns

If that were the case I'd opt for a respray for a black N white chessboard

JHMEG

Silver is the most difficult of all colours to handle, and it's even possible it left the factory like that. I have seen brand new silver cars before that have had slightly different colour panels.

Raiser

69 wrote: »

Common enough issue if a car was keyed and repaired. I was told it is very difficult to get an exact match with some metallics.

I had always heard that the industry norm was to respray the whole side - At least if you didn't want it to be apparent?

fonecrusher1

Thats actually a decent enough price for such a low mileage car & its all leather. You'll get it for a bit less than the asking as well.

Mind you it is petrol so its not going to be an economical choice.

Personally it would have to be the diesel.:)

mickdw

I dont know alot about painting cars but do just stop at the edge of a door on a straight section like that seems like a very poor idea.

colm_mcm

If the rear door and wing are original, chances are it wasn't a serious accident. I wouldn't be able to live with a car with such a bad job on it.

Ideally they should have done half the back door and half(ish) the wing too to blend it in, the colour should not be that much out though. The car isn't old enough to have faded considerably. I used to mix paint in a factors, normal practice would be the painter would get in touch and say the paint is well out, a colour card would then be used to verify was the mixed paint not as per the colour card, it is quite surprising the difference in some colour codes between dark, light and normal variants. I would guess the code was given incorrectly to whoever mixed the paint and the bodyshop didn't bother redoing it. As bad as it is if it was blended into the back door and wing it wouldn't be noticeable.

colm_mcm

looks like a job done on the cheap for someone who didn't know any better than to throw it back at them. Either that or it's a second hand door in a different shade.