TooMuchBoost
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Apparently its pretty common to tear up the front bumper on the new vette's which is no big deal right? Just take it to the local body shop....
The problem is many of the new vette's have 3-stage candy paint jobs on them meaning you spray the car first with a color like white or black then spray the candy color like blue or red over that then clearcoat. In addition some of these new colors like the 08 Blue aren't only 3 stage candy colors but they also have color shifting pigments in them that make the color change depending on the light and angle in which its viewed.
Candy has been around forever and color shifting pigments have been around since the 96 Cobra so what's the problem?
These new primadonna owners only want their new bumpers panel-painted on their $80K toy meaning no adjacent panel gets color blended onto it to help with the matching aka blending. Body shops are learning the hard way it's next to impossible to panel paint some of these colors and get a quality match.
I had a Chevy dealer in FL tell me yesterday he painted a 3 stage red Z06 bumper 3 times before the owner accepted the match. Then the owner knocks the bumper off again and they told him either they are blending onto adjacent panels or he can take it somewhere else. They blended it.
Today I was in a local shop going through the same crap but with the 08 Blue Color Shifting Candy and not only does this owner insist on painting the bumper only but the basecoat, which is oem DuPont but only available through Sherwin Williams at the moment, is $350 PER PINT! The SW rep has been in there for 2 days trying to tint the color to a panel-paintable match to no avail while the owner has been raising cain. The current bill for paint materials only is $600!
Needless to say park away from these new vettes the next time you take the kids to Wal-Mart.LOL
The problem is many of the new vette's have 3-stage candy paint jobs on them meaning you spray the car first with a color like white or black then spray the candy color like blue or red over that then clearcoat. In addition some of these new colors like the 08 Blue aren't only 3 stage candy colors but they also have color shifting pigments in them that make the color change depending on the light and angle in which its viewed.
Candy has been around forever and color shifting pigments have been around since the 96 Cobra so what's the problem?
These new primadonna owners only want their new bumpers panel-painted on their $80K toy meaning no adjacent panel gets color blended onto it to help with the matching aka blending. Body shops are learning the hard way it's next to impossible to panel paint some of these colors and get a quality match.
I had a Chevy dealer in FL tell me yesterday he painted a 3 stage red Z06 bumper 3 times before the owner accepted the match. Then the owner knocks the bumper off again and they told him either they are blending onto adjacent panels or he can take it somewhere else. They blended it.
Today I was in a local shop going through the same crap but with the 08 Blue Color Shifting Candy and not only does this owner insist on painting the bumper only but the basecoat, which is oem DuPont but only available through Sherwin Williams at the moment, is $350 PER PINT! The SW rep has been in there for 2 days trying to tint the color to a panel-paintable match to no avail while the owner has been raising cain. The current bill for paint materials only is $600!
Needless to say park away from these new vettes the next time you take the kids to Wal-Mart.LOL
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