Crap ... Grabber going in the body shop ....

When I first put the car back together after being painted I guess the clear was very thick and wasn't totally cured. The clear Squished up under both door mirrors and the driver side door handle when I tightened them (not immediately but I guess over several days). I also put a 4 inch scratch in the roof when installing the trim ... also when I first got the car back.

So right now both sport mirrors are removed as well as the driver outside door handle ... paint is sanded down and he is going to repaint.

The roof scratch has also been sanded down and filled up ready to paint.

He was able to hammer and dolly out the dent on the edge of the hood and they filled the dent underneath the hood. The driver fender has been sanded, filled and smoothed to remove the small dent there.

The front of the passenger fender had no metal damage but the paint was scraped off down to the metal. That he has sanded and primed.

He says he can match the paint and "melt" the new clear into the current clear and then wet sand and buff smooth. He says he can spot paint the damaged areas without blending or painting the entire thing. We shall see .....

 

Sounds like a plan. That is what I would have done.

As far as "squished paint".....I waited till my paint was cured 5 years before I started putting it back together....so I could prevent that!!

 

Sounds like it is going great, Glad to hear it Dan that is an AWESOME car!

 

Yeah... five years oughta do it!

 

Body shop painted the Grabber yesterday. He showed me a dab of paint he put on the hood for the color match it was dead on .. you couldn't find the dab unless it was pointed out. I was very happy ...

I stopped by today ... and everyplace he sprayed was too Orange ... didn't match at all. The positive thing is that all the repairs are smooth as silk and the damage is gone (even the other areas he fixed for me). He was pulling the car back in the booth as I left. He mixed another batch of paint and was going to try again. He's trying to figure out what went wrong ...

 

That sucks Dan. The same exact thing happened to us with a '69 SuperBee we painted last winter. It took so long to get quater panels for the damn car ( would you believe 2 months? )that we ordered the orange paint and painted the front of the car and the doors. When we finally got the quarters on the car we needed another gallon of paint to finish the car. It was the same color paint and it was painted with the same air pressure, the same gun, the same everything. Guess what? It did'nt match. We did the same thing your bodyman did. We put a dab of the new paint on one of the fenders we had painted earlier and it matched perfectly, but once it was on the rest of the car it was too red. It turns out there was more than one variance for that color that could change the color by a shade or two. Maybe that's what happened with your paint too. All it takes is one or two extra drops of tint to muck up the works. Did your bodyman blend the paint or panel paint it?

 

Sorta like what I deal with in printing....whenever I get a big run with a PMS color, I always special order it as to have enough for the entire job......that way it is all from the same batch.
I can imagine how hard it would be to color match a car when just painting a section.

Good luck Dan!

 

Lord knows I have dealt with this stuff for years and years. I have no solution. Just have to get thru it. It will end up perfect for you Dan.
Dan

 

My painter has told me that theres settings on the spray gun that can....spray heavily or lightly and it can change the color due to how its sprayed? who knows.....paint work is a beech! but im sure he will get it figured out for you....he did a very nice job painting your car. in the first place! ...im sure he will fix it up perfect for you.

 

Your painter is correct. There are a lot of different factors that can affect paint color. A change in air pressure, changing the air/fluid mix on the gun, using a different gun and even the distance you hold the gun from the car as you spray can affect the color. If one person sprays one side of a car and another person sprays the other side and they are using the same exact paint, you can still end up with two different colors. It can be a very tricky process which is made even trickier when you have to spot paint a car.

 

too much "Corona" can have some or all of these symptons ...

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hope it works out fine!

 

It did for me yesterday!!

I'm sure they'll get the paint right, it just makes for some tense moments.

 

Just now catching the thread.

Sorry to hear about the car, but glad you got a good body guy that is going to make it right for you.

 

I just stopped by the shop. He figured it out ... he forgot to mix the color as base coat instead of single stage so it was separating .... He mixed up a new batch as two-stage base and it looks perfect now. I should be picking it up tomorrow ....