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Paint match issue

  • 27-09-2014 1:08pm
    #1
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,275 ✭✭✭✭


    Folks,
    Have a Renault Clio that I dinged over the wheel arch a couple of weeks ago(Totally my own fault too unfortunately)
    However it is giving me and the Bodyshop a pain in the balls matching the paint!
    Took it to a Bodyshop and they ordered the paint as per the code listed on the Info label.
    When I went to collect the car, the lad who did the paint said the colour match is off as the new paint is too dark.
    He thought it was an issue with the supplier as he ordered the paint in as per the info label.
    Anyway he had the supplier in and repainted the car with the same result.

    Now the paint code on the car is NNP(Flame Red) and the ordered paint is just too dark, my paint has much more of an Orange hue to it.
    A little bit of googling has thrown up B76 as the correct code?
    Aside from ordering an aerosol of the B76 and doing a comparison, what is the best way to ensure I get the correct colour?


Comments

  • #2
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭visual


    Find a professional paint shop they can match the colour.

    Heck woodies do it for house paint. You bring in a colour sample and they mix paints to match colour.

    I had same problem years ago with a white mini
    I called it off white and the paint supplied to match was brilliant white.
    The problem was the paint on car had faded with age so it was impossible to match it with aerosol paint.


  • #3
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,275 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Just to close out on this.
    As I stated in my OP I had the car at a Body Shop and they couldn't get the colour correct.
    The body shop's paint supplier is now taking the car to match and refinish the paint as they now think there might be an issue with their 3 stage process as after mixing 2 different batches of paint to the specified factory paint code the match is still way off.


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