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Passenger door a different shade?

  • 01-03-2010 10:40am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭


    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


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,479 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Yep, looks it to me:

    EX_1363_08197011143_2702_03.jpg


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Stoolbend


    Silver can be a very hard colour to match.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭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.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,795 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭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.


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