Looks like it's been touched-up with a bad colour match.
modie61,
Jul 8, 12:31pm
Yip.Gun was going to have a look,the pics arent great cause its just started to rain,im looking at getting this repainted.
grangies,
Jul 8, 12:34pm
Apart from the ugly colour match, does it have a good sound coat of clear over the top!
Or is it a spray can job with no clear.
$300-$400 should fix it. Just don't take to it the local Roll Royce repairers etc, or prices may spiral out of control.lol.
modie61,
Jul 8, 12:39pm
Yes grangies,the rest of the car has been repainted and has a good clear coat on it,actually its a real nice straight car apart from what the last owner did with it.
gunhand,
Jul 8, 2:09pm
Hmmm thats a sad match LOL. But as said if the clear on it is stable it wont be a biggy. Two panels, one being a half one at $200ish each (shop price) so yea grangies on to it. Looks like an easy fix.
modie61,
Jul 8, 3:13pm
Will go to our better painter for this one. Would they just paint the door and guard ! Oh and there is some repair work that needs to be done under that dark coolur,so it might blow out a bit. Thanks guys.
gunhand,
Jul 8, 3:27pm
Depends how big the repair ends up being. But just looking at what I can see if there was no repairs to be done I would only do the two panels as there enough of them to blend. However if the repair took up most of the door I would then blend front door. Should only cost another $50 to do that though.
grangies,
Jul 8, 3:28pm
If it is just an ugly spray can job, the painter will probably just sand all the spray can paint off and feather the edges, then prime the immediate area where the ugliness was.
With colours like your Holden, I pretty much always blend into the front door on a repair like that, no matter how good my test plate of colour looks.
And then clear coat the entire panels from edge to edge. Fully colouring entire panels like that colour and then not blending, too often looks slightly out.
Even though the repair is at the rear of the back door, by the time you have covered the patch, your blend-out will get too clost to the front door as it is flicked in to even the metallic up. Therefore the front door is worth while blending into to achieve a good uniform blend.
gunhand,
Jul 8, 3:33pm
Is the dark colour over the clear!but he said theres repairs under it to be done so maybe it is!either way its a paint to be don lol.
grangies,
Jul 8, 3:43pm
Not sure if the dark is on top.
I'm just fanatically paranoid with those light metallics, that I always blend more than I probably need too. lolol.
Even when the test plate looks mint. LOL.
gunhand,
Jul 8, 3:47pm
I agree, for the small amount of BC and clear you use and the short time it takes to prep a panel why wouldnt you. It always makes me laugh (or cry) when I see a door painted and its a shade or two off. And a simple blend would have taken care of it.
modie61,
Jul 8, 4:39pm
Im not sure if the dark colour is over the clear,but this damage was caused by doing a burn out and blowing the tyre,the damage under the paint is a lot of steel cord scratches,i dont think there is any bog in there,looks like they sanded it roughly and sprayed it.
grangies,
Jul 8, 4:44pm
Should be an easy fix then.
One way to tell if the colour is over the existing clear, is to lightly run your fingertips over the panel, and you'll feel the difference when the two different paints meet.
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