Paint Codes & fading

[BERGS2]

I'm trying to get hold of some Paint for the Tivver - only thing is its 13 years old and I'm not sure about how best to compensate for fading.

it looks like it has been cut back quite recently and the paint does look pretty fresh.

the colour code is 420 5038 - I see from the s bible that this is variously 'Brooklands racing green' and a jaguar colour.

does anyone have any advice on how best to compensae for fade?

many thanks,

Tim

[GavinPearson]

A good bodyshop with paint mixing equipment can match the paint spec to a spectrometer reading and also read samples of your cleaned up paint. They can adjust your paint spec accordingly and provide new paint to match the old stuff.

[jvaughan]

Spectrometer reading .. Bloody hell thats technical.
Most of the body shops / colour mixing places have colour chips ( large books of pantone style colour chips). they simply find a rough colour, then open like a fan, samples of all the shades. They then have an exact colour, Matched exactly to the paint. These people are experts, they can spot colour deviations, and even name colours. Spectrometer method does sound very hi-tec


>> Edited by jvaughan on Friday 14th May 20:20

[sheepy]

In my experience, regardless of what they say about using this bit of kit etc, you'll be lucky! I had paint mixed for the Jag to specifically match the paint on the car, but it's still darker. I've got a colour that Jaguar gave up on after nine months due to their worries over the fading!!!! Best you can hope for is a pretty close match that gets blended in over a panel.

Sheepy