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Originally Posted by mikefocke
I had a bumper repainted once on a 8 year old car that had sat outside for at least part of its life. I was told AS was a tough match. The shop did a perfect job. Granted they probably did a half dozen P-cars a day as they were a big shop in a big city.
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Ya Mike, I would think so. Silvers on any car are tough to match from what I have seen on the streets. Which is why I'm just going to repaint the whole car. The problems with the paint on mine are. It appears that the rear deck lid and quarter panels and doors where painted with a silver that has more metal flake in it. The drivers door is hammered with chips. The hood and the right front fender where painted separately and the clear coat on the hood is disintegrating. The left front fender is fading and has no clear coat on it. It was a single stage paint. So there is not much point in repainting a few parts. It has never been wrecked and that is what baffles me about all the repainting done to it. A friend of mine is an insurance adjuster with 24 years of experience and he went over it with a fine tooth comb before I bought to see if it had been wrecked.
As far as matching the artic silver perfectly. Unless I park it next to one with the original paint on it. No one will know if it's a little off from the original a tad.
Randy