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If you are using pp cans for touch up in an automotive scenario you will never get a decent colour match. Modern automotive paints are a clear over base, the touch up cans are acrylic. You can clear over the acrylic, but to go to all that trouble you may as well do the job properly with the correct paint type.
The problem with clear coat over colour two pack enamel, particularly pommy paints, are that the clear coat does not stand up to UV light as well as baked enamel or even the acrylics. How many cars out there less than 10 years old do you see with opaque, oxidised and peeling clear coats.
It never happened on previous finishes.
I'm not discussing the good or bad points of various paint systems, just pointing out the practicalities of doing a touch up using a different type of paint. For any halfway decent match, it's not simply spraying the same colour from a can.
its sad but untill the day when she gets a full spray job, the best she's going to get is a can. I know it will never match exactly due to oxidisation/fade etc but it has to look better than a dent.
You will achieve a superior result by painting the entire panel.
Autobarn = AutoPro ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by HangOver
collecting one tommorw from autobarn, hardest bit was getting the correct code, apparently there are several Alpine white's ;)
all good though.
I was just in my local AB and they didnt have the colour listed.
Their premix cans can be in any paint they stock NOT just acrylic.
As for colour matching? Well paint fades over time, some more than others and colours such as Red or Yellow oxidise faster than greens etc so a fresh batch of paint may or may not match.
Either way they couldn't help me.
Which model did you get the alpine white for? And do you have the code?Quote:
Originally Posted by HangOver
I need the one for a white 1996 Defender!Is that true??Quote:
Originally Posted by isuzurover
In Nowra whe have an AutoPro and an AutoBarn about 100M away from each other in the same block. I know that the AutoPro is a franchise/buying group because of the problems they had when the original franchisor company went bankrupt.
The AutoPro is where most of the mechanics in the town get their parts from.
Theone I wanted is for a 94' Range Rover Classic, so knowing Land Rover its most likely thre same colour ;)
I said autobarn but it was infact an autopro so probably AB is AP?
i guess they all mix painrt though, they would not do it on the spot i had to go back the next day.
The can says "Land Rover 456 Alpine White"