paint shades

[stephenm2682]

hey all, my car as colorado red pearl metallic, i went to the local motor colours today to buy some paint, paint code is b3y.

my question is, the bloke there said to use only 1 shade of the colorado red? what does this mean cause my car only has 1 shade??? and if i'm not happy about the match, then go for a lighter shade. anyone understand this?

 

[Chipper]

Paint fades with UV light and things. And possibly paint batches vary slightly. So sometimes when you go for a certain colour the shop has the original 'factory fresh' tone and a couple of shades which differ slightly, so you can choose one which better matches your actual car (would need sample bit of the car to match against colour chip).

 

[mike os]

and red is about the worst colour for fade

 

[medlar]

Normally a certain colour of paint can have loads of different shades, best to take something like a colour coded mirror or petrol flap to match it but polish it up first to get it back to original colour/shade, i could be wrong but you said "pearlecsant Paint" i think that only comes in 1 shade for any given colour, so thats probably what the guy meant. Unless the car has been painted before then thats a different ball game trying to match it

 

[stephenm2682]

he actually had a colour chart with colorado red on it, which my paint code comes under, and held it to my car and it looked spot on. the only thing i didn't understand was he said i'd be better of with using only 1 shade. no idea what that meant lol

 

[the snooper]

as mentioned above some cars may have three different shades of the same colour which is to do with the production dates
what the guy probably meant was number 1 shade is the most common used and that is what he will have supplied you with

 

[stephenm2682]

would it be tones he was talking about then? using only 1, what would this mean