Just had my fender redone for paint. The painter said thats as close as he could get it cause its a pearl. Looks awful to me. Honestly did i just get a bad painter or can pearls be hard to match. I looked at the can of paint and its the exact color for the car. Why off so bad is what i can't figure out.

 

Here's a different angle

 

ok so the problem is, even if they get the paint from the manufacturer you paint will fade over time from sun damage. a good painter/ computer can match the paint to almost the same color but will usually be slightly off. not to mention they will blend it to the panels around where they paint so the color is not as noticeable.

 

Looks yellower to me

 

They were suppose to blend the color to the other panels to avoid the paint standing out as it does now.

 

You would have been better off finding a junked G in IP that still had that fender in good shape.

 

Yeah, that's pretty bad, needed a few drops of red to cancel out that green. White pearl is pretty hard to match simply because it's hard to blend it with the other panels. White is also tricky because most of the time it's not just white, there's hints of other colors to get the right shade.

Also "paint from the manufacturer" is a myth. Nissan doesn't manufacture paint, they use a common 2 stage formula. Dupont, PPG, BASF, Sherwin Williams, and others all make automotive paints.

I used to be pretty good at color matching, because most paint codes end up having more than one "variant" so it's tough to get a perfect match off the paint code formula. I'd make this guy redo it. If that's the closest he can get, then he should ask for assistance, the paint rep the shop buys their supplies from is usually very helpful. I know I had to call in help when a gold car was giving me a run for my money.

*it's been almost 12 years since I was an auto-body painter, I'm sure some things have changed, but paint matching is a required skill, not just use whatever the formula spits out.

 

the redone look just had it done 1 hour ago.





The Redone look. Still not perfect but much better. My painter had every chip card for the paint color one was pretty close he mixed it up turned out different had to screw with it like 4 times and got this. He said this is the hardest color to match these tri coat.

 

Nice wheels ^
It's hard to tell on the forums.

 

Not perfect, but looks a lot better. At least in that lighting.

 

thats pretty horrible. as someone said they shoulda blended it. but even if they did the color is so off it woulda fked up ur car imo

 

I had my passenger fender replaced and refinished a while ago. The shop blended the passenger door, side skirt and hood. And I paid to just have the front bumper refinished. Nobody could tell the difference. Like others have said. They are suppose to blend surrounding panels especially a color like yours. My car is obsidian black so it wasn't mandatory but they did it anyways