Just hard to paint match?

[at24]

Hey guys,

So I had some damage repaired on my car about a month ago and my paint clearly does not match. From what I've read on other forums, my paint (Obsidian Black Pearl by Subaru) is one of the harder paint colors to match. So my dilemma is that my newer paint has a noticeable green tint to it, which I would guess is from a higher concentration of the paint's pearl flecks. So my question is does anyone know if this is normal (my paint is only about 25 days old), or did the shop not do that good of a job?

Thanks,
-Andrew

[Accumulator]

Originally Posted by at24

..So I had some damage repaired on my car about a month ago and my paint clearly does not match. From what I've read on other forums, my paint (Obsidian Black Pearl by Subaru) is one of the harder paint colors to match. So my dilemma is that my newer paint has a noticeable green tint to it...

Welcome to Autopia!

Sorry to hear about your Subie.

Sounds like the shop messed up. While it *is* very hard to match pearls, when you get a green/blue/etc. difference it says "bad paint match job" to me (and it also says bad quality control because if *you* see it, they did too but they thought they could get away with it).

I've run into this countless times with silver...e.g., Mazda silver from a lot of paint manufacturers has the wrong degree of blue to it. Unfortunately, between different paint manufacturers, paints with the same code are still *different*. You can pick four different paint manufacturers and you'll get four different-looking paints that oughta all look identical.

A good shop will know which brand to start with, and will then tweak that to ensure a good match.

I'd either see if the shop can make it right (may be siply beyond their abilities) or find a shop that'll say "yep, they messed it up by...[good explanation]...we can redo that properly".

[Flashtime]

^Good info^

Some specific colors are just very difficult to get a blendable match. Sometimes,
a color will match better in another brand...

Where is the damage? What did they paint? What paint system did they use?

Can you post pics?

[David Fermani]

Sounds like a classic example of the shop not blending adjacent panels correctly. What ended up getting repaired?