What your cars paint code doesn't tell you! | It's not as easy as you think!

[@garyworokevich2524]

If memory serves (and it rarely does), you guys color matched Sarah's Forester. This introduced me to a side of car painting I never knew existed. Thank you.

[@mjs7100]

As an autobody painter in a past life, I appreciate the time, expertise and effort you put into trying to match this color. Thumbs up!

[@tonygiraldes7848]

Another example of why this channel is just the greatest 😊♥️

[@bonnaroobanzai7521]

Nice work, I hate when customers want a color match and they’re like “isn’t black just black?” Nope.

[@90crxdx]

When you’re a painter you actually see a different between eggshell white and marshmallow white. It’s a curse.

[@fokker1138]

The attention to detail. 😚👌

[@IPunchUrFace]

Seems crazy tough especially hard to explain in words.

[@robertrohr3990]

Though much of the matching and dabbing may be difficult to convey on camera, I was reminded of the hours I spent matching colors over my decades as a painter. Your dedication to the matching process is laudable.

[@waltermartin6176]

Great video

[@daveseddon5227]

OK - so it's not guesswork then?! Seems pretty complex and also a bit of a bummer when the company recipe points you in the wrong direction. Oh well, I guess that's what makes for an interesting job. Great vid and very informative. Thanks! 🙂

[@90crxdx]

For some it is, for Fred he can some how see the difference and know how many grams to change. I don’t understand it.

[@daveseddon5227]

@@90crxdx I think it's simply that Fred studied at Hogwarts - it's the only plausible explanation! 🙂

[@jd440]

​@@90crxdxonce you learn color theory, and how each color counteracts with another, plus over time you learn to see the underlying tones of the colors you're looking at, it becomes easier. Also keep in mind, that is using a computer with a system like say, an x rite system or something, and you view the color readout on the screen, it shows a two dimensional target. But, it's actually a cross section of the actual spectrum of color. It's actually a sphere. When color matching, it's best to stay within the actual formula for the color being checked. There are small cheats you can do though while still staying within that formula to aid in boosting the hue/tone and make it either a stronger base color or weaker (for car paints it's reducers), for water based inks and house paints it's called extenders

[@tomswindler64]

👍👍👍😎😎😎 appreciate the info,comes in handy.keep on doing what your doing

[@kamaalbaksh]

We need more skilled people like you in this world

[@AB-C1]

Fantastic video and demo explanation etc... Found your channel through Sarah's channel some months ago and tbh. I love your attention to detail it's what I love about her work and channel also tbh. She don't do anything by half and neither do you. .. I'm very much like that myself bit perfectionist OCD if I do something i do it 110% give it my all or I don't bother at all even things I've never done before I'll do it until I get it perfect or as close as I can, and I see that in your work, you understate your work but tbh it's spot on mate! Cheers from London England 👍😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@m1keY_YOUTUBE]

Black isn't bLack 😵‍💫? Very interesting how it works, would love to see more of these colormatching-break-down-steps.

[@jd440]

So many different shades of black,...then There the pearls and flip additives added into the mix, different types of metal flakes..etc. Your primer will effect your base colors as well too. So, sometimes a darker shade of primer will help with the main color. Adding in some black tint to your primer helps with depth of the main color, as opposed to spraying a really white primer, then painting black over it. You'll end up spraying more material to get the effect you want versus doing a darker undercoat first.

[@Jim-fe2xz]

Far more to it than most people realize. I can shoot the paint but can't figure out what to do to custom match graphics on surfboards for instance. Luckily, I have a daughter who is also an artist to help!

[@NicholasMuscat-cl1qo]

I hate the paint stores in my country, I give them the number and a painted part of the car and they reject they part saying we don't match colors we only go by number, the piece on the car ends up looking ridiculous compared to the rest of the paint. At least now I know why as it is very time consuming thanks for showing us. Really though some paint shops are stupid, just because you make good money does not mean your service should be crap, their stupid because people would even pay double the price for the time, as the match makes or breaks the car or at least I would.

[@tommcl8548]

👊👍

[@WastelandFirebird]

I've always wondered about this. And I thought it took a good eye for color to work on photographs and video! Question: it looked like you were dabbing actual paint onto the gas cap cover. How do you remove that? Or, were you going to repaint the cover, too?

[@90crxdx]

Reducer can remove the dabbed on paint.

[@jhenson5168]

How do you like the lumabase? How much did the system cost? Just got quoted for PPG shop line at $5600 for bare minimum

[@UWrenchTV]

Fred like the Lumabase system a lot. You can contact Wesco for price - www.wesco.com/

[@sapaintmixingmatching7267]

I can't perfect match Blue and grey colour what I do.

[@bsmirnov]

Sorcery

[@rbailey225]

That was like 90 bucks worth of paint for that little vent.

[@mlpabq1]

All this technology and he ends up "winging it".....i appreciate the effort but i almost always mix by eye using the standard formula as a starting point. Tiny adjustments to tint and flop become second nature with a little experience

[@nathanhagerman9928]

Me: looking to color match a classic who’s oem no longer exists. This dude: If it did exist, it still probably wouldn’t match based on time and degradation factors. Me: Okay, can we do something about that. Him: Yes let me show you how I very carefully match this particular black example. I will start with existing chip samples and make my way towards a custom color if need be. Me: Fantastic Him: We had to make a custom color, but it was easy since it was black. If it was silver it’d be pretty close to impossible to match it for sure. Me: ….. Him: What? Me: My car is a silver-green color (more silver than green)

[@chrisl6281]

you must work in a restoration shop, way too much time is wasted with that process. learning how to actually tint paint would be much quicker then relying on a computer. ive been matching paint for 28 years that process is way too consuming