Darkening dodgy metallic colour with tinted lacquer?

[schmokin1]

Hi everyone

A car I am looking at is a very dodgy colour (metallic).

Is it possible to darken a light metallic using tinted lacquer sprayed over the top, so, for example a dodgy turquoise colour could be darkened off towards blue?

The car's a good un but just a very dodgy colour and I wouldn't buy it if it had to be fully sprayed.....

cheers
schmo

[wildoliver]

To be honest as a sprayer the difference in price between a full respray and a laquer would not be all that different, may be better off just biting th ebullet and either living with it or respraying it.

[schmokin1]

what i had in mind was a blow over with the lacquer and could deliver the car to the shop stripped down. surely a bit cheaper than full metallic respray plus clearcoat? or is it possible to respray these days metallic without needing lacquer over the top? (I know less than nothing about painting cars as you can probably tell!!)

thanks for your reply wildoli

Schmo

[wildoliver]

Your right it would be a bit cheaper, but would be unlikely to look that great, i doubt it would do what you want, and i doubt it would last that long before flaking.

[Mr OCD]

I wouldnt advise it... most two stage paints are designed for the clearcoat to be painted on whilst the base coat is tacky to ensure sufficient bonding.

If you do what you say the lacquer will start seperating from the old paint at some point regardless of how well it is rubbed down.

Either live with it or get the car resprayed properly... but imaho I bought a car once that was mint but a dodgy colour - I regretted it and landed up selling it 6 weeks later