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]

..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?