Why Bumpers Don`t Match the Rest of Your Car

[C. Charles Hahn]

Dave-



I was actually showing a similar mismatch to a customer recently- car was polished and they never noticed the mismatch and they wondered what I did! lol. "Well, I removed all the defects that were hiding the mismatch in colors." Not sure this was the correct response, since the wanted to know how I was qualified to know that. I thought visual inspection was enough.

I would say you`re on the right track actually; if there was hazing on either the bumper or the body (or both) it might have altered the shade just enough and by removing the hazing, it brings out the true colors of both parts so a mismatch is more easily detected. Proving your qualification is easy in that case -- be sure to take at least a couple 50/50 shots that show the amount of difference removing the haze from a panel makes in terms of the depth/richness/shade of the color.

[bryan]

I had the fascia line at gm for about 4 years. Our once gm owned bumper facility had the worst colour match ever. And those were the good ones they sent. Needless to say they were shut down due to quality and ridiculous scrap issues.



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[ReflectionsADS]

I would say you`re on the right track actually; if there was hazing on either the bumper or the body (or both) it might have altered the shade just enough and by removing the hazing, it brings out the true colors of both parts so a mismatch is more easily detected. Proving your qualification is easy in that case -- be sure to take at least a couple 50/50 shots that show the amount of difference removing the haze from a panel makes in terms of the depth/richness/shade of the color.

C. Hahn:



This was the same theory that I was going with. Looking at a bumper that is nearly defect free would reveal the true condition where defects, hazing etc... would hide this kind of defects. I think the customer left accepting my answer, but still not 100% confident that what I was saying was true. I`m sure if they are curious enough they`ll get it inspected.

[David Fermani]

They can`t even get it right on model cars!!! OR, are they just trying to depict actual pretenses!!


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