So my wonderful wife got me a paint job on my car for Christmas. Awesome! I can finally get rid of that heinous Bronzit and get Zinno!
I have a buddy with a nice shop and a car trailer. Took it over there, got it all stripped, hauled it to the guy doing the job. Then I'm off on a trip for work for two weeks. He gets it cleaned up, all the little shit dents repaired, primered and painted. Single-stage PPG Urethane.
Went to pick it up last week, and this is what I find:
That is not Zinnoberot, it's PINK. Now I'm a modern man, and to each his own, but I'm NOT going to drive a PINK CAR! (Yeah, it's more of a salmon color, but still not what I was looking for...)
The guy did a fantastic job, especially for what I paid him, but the color is just wrong.
So it was time to figure out where it went so horribly wrong:
Talked to the painter, and he said he thought it might have been a bad mix on the 1st quart of paint, but when he went to get more, it came out the same, so he figured that was right.
Went to Wesco paint supplies, and talked to the nice lady that works at the Totem Lake one. As soon as she looked at the can in my hand, she says, "Oh, you have Omni. That's your problem". Turns out that the paint that the guy used, PPG OMNI, sometimes just doesn't match all that well. OMNI is the cheapest of their urethanes, and they sell it for overall coverage only, because it doesn't match the OEM color. She said in most cases it's fine, but sometimes it's a ways off.
She was nice enough to mix me up 8oz of their Contour paint (about $50 worth, for FREE), same paint code, but a much better match to the underside of the sunroof panel that I bought from Luke's Zinno car.
So now I'm on the hook for painting my car again.
Moral: watch out for PPG Omni paint, and make sure you're in the country when your car is getting painted.
I have a buddy with a nice shop and a car trailer. Took it over there, got it all stripped, hauled it to the guy doing the job. Then I'm off on a trip for work for two weeks. He gets it cleaned up, all the little shit dents repaired, primered and painted. Single-stage PPG Urethane.
Went to pick it up last week, and this is what I find:
That is not Zinnoberot, it's PINK. Now I'm a modern man, and to each his own, but I'm NOT going to drive a PINK CAR! (Yeah, it's more of a salmon color, but still not what I was looking for...)
The guy did a fantastic job, especially for what I paid him, but the color is just wrong.
So it was time to figure out where it went so horribly wrong:
Talked to the painter, and he said he thought it might have been a bad mix on the 1st quart of paint, but when he went to get more, it came out the same, so he figured that was right.
Went to Wesco paint supplies, and talked to the nice lady that works at the Totem Lake one. As soon as she looked at the can in my hand, she says, "Oh, you have Omni. That's your problem". Turns out that the paint that the guy used, PPG OMNI, sometimes just doesn't match all that well. OMNI is the cheapest of their urethanes, and they sell it for overall coverage only, because it doesn't match the OEM color. She said in most cases it's fine, but sometimes it's a ways off.
She was nice enough to mix me up 8oz of their Contour paint (about $50 worth, for FREE), same paint code, but a much better match to the underside of the sunroof panel that I bought from Luke's Zinno car.
So now I'm on the hook for painting my car again.
Moral: watch out for PPG Omni paint, and make sure you're in the country when your car is getting painted.
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