Need Help Choosing Paint
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dolphin gray is not like the picture you posted. Like I mentioned before, you can find the similar equivilant by looking at the silverish color that benz put out for their new e classes. It's a bright silver with light blue tint.
As for the reason why paint will never match when you paint the body kit......When your car is painted at the factory, they mix the paint in 50 gallon vats. Even if the exact same paint was used to paint the bumpers, it wont match cause it's a concentrated amount as opposed to 50 gallons.
If you want to repaint your whole car, make sure you're done with all the body mods. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise, you'll run into the same prob. when you do some other body work, you're paint won't match.
Good luck picking a color. And one last word of advice......don't try to take shortcuts when dealing with painting the car. It's something that will bite you in the *** afterwards. If you want to paint it, minus well save a little more and do the jabs, etc. I'll be worth it in the long run.
As for the reason why paint will never match when you paint the body kit......When your car is painted at the factory, they mix the paint in 50 gallon vats. Even if the exact same paint was used to paint the bumpers, it wont match cause it's a concentrated amount as opposed to 50 gallons.
If you want to repaint your whole car, make sure you're done with all the body mods. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise, you'll run into the same prob. when you do some other body work, you're paint won't match.
Good luck picking a color. And one last word of advice......don't try to take shortcuts when dealing with painting the car. It's something that will bite you in the *** afterwards. If you want to paint it, minus well save a little more and do the jabs, etc. I'll be worth it in the long run.
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paint it with a EBP base coat then spray a candy or pearl silver coat... So it'll be blue in the shadows with bright silver highlights.... the effect would be something like Blackbullets.... but with blue and silver instead of red and gold.
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