Chameleon Blue resprays or touch ups

[KormaChameleon]

Reading through some of the posts I wondered what would happen and how much would it cost, in the event of a shunt or a Tesco's punter opening their door on your Tuscan, to respray the damage paint. Bearing in mind the Chameleon Blue paint is layered in a certain way.

[victormeldrew]

Isn't it supposed to be as easy to touch up as a flat colour, easier than metallic?

Its to do with the flakes. In the chameleon colours its prismatic, and its orientation doesn't matter, so the paint can be slapped on anyhow. Metallics have flat metal flakes, which causes the colour/effect to change slighly depending on the angle its sprayed at - ie a bitch to match on a touch up.

Thats the theory anyway - anyone tried it?

[trueblue]

I had the roof panel resprayed on my Chameleon Green Tuscan after it needed to be reshaped to fit better, and it came out perfectly, think you are right about how well it matches in (i.e. better than regular metallic)

[tuscan_s]

trueblue, do you have any pictures of your roof when it didn't fit properly?

How bad was it? Mine slopes toward the centre and water can pool in the middle of the roof!!

[plotloss]

Its easier to spray a reflex as there is no line where the new paint over laps the old...

The prisms in the paint reflect the light away from the join and hence the eye doesnt linger like a flat paint.

>> Edited by plotloss on Thursday 10th July 09:48

[trueblue]

I don't think I have any pictures of the roof panel from close enough to really show the problem. There is one on my Webshots page that gives a bit of an idea -

http://community.webshots.com/photo/67580362/67582827yZfxIh

I am guessing that the dip was about 15-20mm (it used to pool water a little although not a huge problem) and only really noticeable where it met the roll bar.

When I noticed it (bit ashamed I was slow enough not to pick this up straight away) I took the car over to Hawthorns and we compared it with the other Tuscans that they had there at the time. Some had no dip at all, others had one, but all less than mine. So, they cleared it as a warranty claim with TVR and then had the work done (reshaping and painting the panel).

It is a really nice job, lines up perfectly now and the colour match is spot on.

[dropacog]

Does this mean that if you have some stone chipping to your chameleon paint work, you dont need as much of the front end blown over since there is not the blending issue that there is with other colours? hence itll be cheaper?

[victormeldrew]

I think thats the idea yes! I was warned off the reflex colours because of potential touch up problems but I think that was a bum steer. I've checked some of the suppliers websites and they do claim touch up should be simpler/cheaper than metallics.

They are nevertheless expensive paints!