Fjord Color Match

[PetrolJunky]

Okay, so I am looking at buying a Fjord 02, the door needs to be replaced, the car's paint looks great, is it better to let the painter match the color or use the color code?

 

I know, it's a tricky question, just not sure how good the painters are at matching the colors.

[Simeon]

They should match and then shoot a test plate. A good shop will do this, if they wont then go elsewhere. 

[PetrolJunky]

Thank you.

[Conserv]

5 hours ago, Simeon said:

They should match and then shoot a test plate. A good shop will do this, if they wont then go elsewhere. 

 

+1

 

The chances of a random quart of Fjord matching the Fjord on your new Fjord car — it’s metallic, so it’s been repainted at least once, xx years ago — are very slim. Matching is as much an art as a science, but your odds of a match are better!

 

Regards,

 

Steve

 

Edited June 26, 2018 by Conserv

[Mike Self]

Many automotive paint shops have spectrographic matching equipment, that will do a nearly perfect match of your existing paint, whether faded, not quite the original color or....whatever.  

 

My local body shop has had occasion to do paint somewhere on my Sahara '73 six times since 1990, and all panels match perfectly.  

 

mike

[bobthomas]

I've had the same experience as Mike with matching Anthracite on my M2.  Got the paint at local NAPA.

[willys]

i bet you will be painting the whole side of the car up to the belt line - very tough color to match - spoken from experience - ?

[PetrolJunky]

Ah, issue is the car is near perfect and I am getting a door and was hoping not to to touch anything else

[PetrolJunky]

duplicate

Edited June 26, 2018 by movieprodw

[John_in_VA]

With painting the new door, they'll usually blend into the panels fore & aft of it.

[Harvanj]

Just depends on your level of expectation.  The starting point should be a shop that uses their color match equipment regularly. That’s your best starting point if you want a good match. If you want an unnoticeable door repaint, from all angles under different light then your start at the same shop and blend into the adjacent panels. You can ask the shop to do a spray out of the color and you make the final decision, if you want it to look good to you. If you want it unnoticed by everyone then blend to adjacent panels.