Restoration Progress?, Screwed up paint job! Options

[vesnyder]

Got my car back from th epainter last week and have been depressed ever since! He claims he wanted to do it right and remove all the panels before painting. Every set of panels he painted (on separate days) came out a different shade?? This pic gives you an idea - look at the door difference! Is this guy a total incompetent? What could cause this?

[tdgray]

Well... let's see.

Could be several different things. Wrong pressure, bad bake but my guess...

HE DIDN'T MATCH THE COLOR RIGHT (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif)

Depending on how old the paint job was it could be a difference from sun fade or chemical breaksown (really the same thing).

It takes a talented painter to "panel paint" a part of the car. They would have to custom mix the paint. This takes great skill and even then you would be able to tell slightly.

The most common practice is to blend the color. This invloves paint some of the front fender and some of the back fender at the same time as the door. The painter just sort of "fades" teh new color into the old. Most of the time IF the color is matched close enough you will have a hard time telling.

Dude, get a new painter... this guy has no idea what he is doing (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)