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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.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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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.
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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.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
YarnMaster
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.
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You will achieve a superior result by painting the entire panel.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Swaggie
Autobarn = AutoProOriginally Posted by HangOver
No autobarn in WAI guess I will ask an car-spray paint shop?
YarnMaster
collecting one tommorw from autobarn, hardest bit was getting the correct code, apparently there are several Alpine white's
all good though.
Wizard
SupporterI 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.
Charleston Green 1997 TDi Disco R380
Silver 1986 Vogue
Charcoal 1983 Range Rover 4 speed
Silver 98 Volvo C70
Red 88 740 HP Turbo
Silver Volvo 740 Wagoon
1998 Volvo S90 Royal
W116's, C107 and a W123 onna stick
Super Moderator
Which model did you get the alpine white for? And do you have the code?collecting one tommorw from autobarn, hardest bit was getting the correct code, apparently there are several Alpine white's
all good though.
I need the one for a white 1996 Defender!Is that true??Autobarn = AutoPro
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.
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YarnMaster
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"
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