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Spray Painter? Or Artist?
Automotive painting and refinishing is truly an art. Properly matching the
exotic finishes found on today's cars and trucks,
requires special expertise in
application techniques. With the help of computerized matching color databases
from the Spies Hecker Color Matching system, our painters combine the latest
techniques with the keen eye of an artist to create "never been damaged" quality
finishes. They take every precaution to insure that the final finish matches
your original paint in both appearance and quality . . . to protect and preserve
the value of your car, truck or SUV.
We use a Brinks Very Clean Air paint booth as well as
sophisticated infra-red curing systems. This technology allows us to accurately
match the color and texture of your vehicle's original finish. The curing system
means we can deliver a faster, baked on, factory finish that is fully cured so
that it is ready to return to the everyday punishment of driving, right away.
That means you can wash it and wax it right away. No more waiting six months!
However, we recommend that you read our tips section first.
Our painters combine the latest techniques with the keen eye of an artist to create "never been damaged" quality finishes. They take every precaution to insure that the final finish matches your original paint in both appearance and quality ... to protect and preserve the value of your vehicle.
Color Match? Is it, or isn't it?
Most people probably expect to have their paint finish match 100%. Matching
today's paint finishes requires experience, training, a good quality paint
system, proper equipment and the right environment. An exact match will depend
on many addition factors such the age of the original paint. Most people don't
understand exactly what is involved in achieving an acceptable color match.
To start, automobile manufacturers use state of the art facilities costing millions of dollars to produce a show room finish. The equipment (possibly including robots), the environment and the techniques used at the factory can not possibly be reproduced at the "auto body shop" level. There are hundreds of variables that can affect the match. For this reason, most of today's base coat and clear coat metallic colors have to be blended, be it over the fenders or into the doors or what ever adjacent panel. This blending will almost always ensure an acceptable match.
If done properly, blending into adjacent panels will not cause any
problems. Usually the majority of the material being applied to
those adjacent panels will be clear (urethane). If anything, this will just
offer a little more protection. Solid colors are usually more forgiving than
metallic colors when it comes to color matching. One of the reasons a metallic
color is such a problem is that those tiny flakes of metallic come in different
shapes and sizes; their job is to reflect light into different directions. The
problem comes in when we are applying our metallics; we can't ensure that they
land in the same positions as the ones on the adjacent panel that the
manufacturer applied.
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