Ever since I got my Duster 10 years ago all my upgrades and work have been mechanical. Besides stripes and wheels I have not really done anything to the exterior or the interior besides keeping it clean and nice. The occasional polish etc. This winter I'm thinking I'm gonna turn my attention to fix up the interior. Getting a new carpet. Touch up the instruments and dash. I'm also gonna see if I can do anything about the scratches and chipping on my paint. I went to a shop the other day who had this little camera that could analyze the color on my car. It comes up with the closest match. See photo, I cant remember what the mopar code was for the match it came up with, I have it written down in the garage. But it's not close enough for sure. I was under the impression that such a camera simply could make a recipe that would be spot on. Maybe others can? If not then I guess one would have to go back and forth tinting this color until it's close enough.
Color Measurement Instruments - Spectrophotometer
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sport74
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I used to work for a paint store that sold DuPont. We had their camera which they called "chromavision". Customers were told, like yourself, that it would match spot on. This simply isn't the case. We had several instances where customers did not want to hear that it would be close but for an exact match, they should leave a part for a day or two to get an exact match. Many colors also have various alternates, these will have the same paint code, but there might be four or five different variants of that color. I say all of that to say if you have a small spot you wish to blend in, take the smallest panel you can and leave it with them for a couple of days to get as close as possible. Even then it may not be so close that you could paint a fender off the car and install it and it match perfectly. Paints have changed a lot in the last ten to twenty years, let alone the last 40 plus and sometimes things get lost in translation. Hope this helps
Thank you for clearing that out for me. It's a great help.
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PPG used to make spot on recipes with their camera years ago. Now they only load them with pre made recipes. If it isn't in the system, it won't recognize it ... kind of like the paint on my car. I've tried the PPG Prophet, Dupont and BASF. No luck matching mine at all.
I find that interesting. Why would they go back on such a good service? It seems like taking a step back instead of forward for a company that mix and sell paint.
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I said the same thing. And it doesn't matter to them since they aren't selling pre mixed paint. Whoever you buy the paint from mixes it at their mixing bank. I used to mix paint all the time. That said, a good paint guy can get close with a color chip and then custom match a paint. It's an art, but good ones do it all the time.
Exactly my thoughts.
Matching by code almost never works because of fading and/or initial mixing.
A photo match independent of any forced code association is more of an art, and may be dependent on the operator.
We've got a young-ish guy around here that has been 100% dead on with some funky Mopar colors like JY3, YY1 and EW1.
A photo match independent of any forced code association is more of an art, and may be dependent on the operator.
We've got a young-ish guy around here that has been 100% dead on with some funky Mopar colors like JY3, YY1 and EW1.
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