Chamealeon Paint Match??

[bowenslim9415]

Hi guys,

My recently aquired tuscan needs a new front bonnet section as it has some deep scratches and a big chip. I know where to get this from but my question is this...

Will it be psooible for a good paint garage to match the chamealeon paint on the car? Is it pretty easilly done?

If not easy then does anyone know any TVR paint specialists?

Any help would be great!

Dave

[shep1001]

bowenslim9415 said:

Hi guys,

My recently aquired tuscan needs a new front bonnet section as it has some deep scratches and a big chip. I know where to get this from but my question is this...

Will it be psooible for a good paint garage to match the chamealeon paint on the car? Is it pretty easilly done?

If not easy then does anyone know any TVR paint specialists?

Any help would be great!

Dave

S&D in blackpool are ex-factory, will be a top job but not cheap. Over £1000 for a front end spray for mine. Paint match can be done but the chameleon paints are not a simple job to lay down without painting all the car.

Shep

[dvs_dave]

There's also the school of thought that chameleon/reflex paint is actually easier to do due to the fact that the colour is always changing dependent on viewing angle, therefore there's no colour match to worry about.

The paint itself is ludicrously expensive though, to the point where I think the manufacturers are taking the piss and blatantly profiteering.

Paint seems to be the only area associated with TVR ownership where the costs have remained disproportionately high. Shame really as I'd like to re-do my reflex purple Tuscan, but at £5-6k for a decent job it's simply unjustifiable.

[salmon]

Out of interest has anyone got manufacturer paint codes for the chameleon flip or spectraflair silver - not the defunct Tvr codes that are on here btw.

[macdeb]

dvs_dave said:

There's also the school of thought that chameleon/reflex paint is actually easier to do due to the fact that the colour is always changing dependent on viewing angle, therefore there's no colour match to worry about.

The paint itself is ludicrously expensive though, to the point where I think the manufacturers are taking the piss and blatantly profiteering.

Paint seems to be the only area associated with TVR ownership where the costs have remained disproportionately high. Shame really as I'd like to re-do my reflex purple Tuscan, but at £5-6k for a decent job it's simply unjustifiable.

Sorry bloke but don't agree with first bit [but do the rest] I had a T350 in reflex green/purple and it needed warranty work to rear section at 6 months old. Went back to factory and they totally fked up on the colour. Then tried to tell me that the sun had bleached my paint. [car 6 months old 2k miles and lived in heated garage] Oh, and the new paint was lighter than original. Anyway, as it turns out the colour codes for it had changed with supplier so the reflex colours 'do' have different shades and it is very noticable on a car that's 'touched up'. Have a word with Frank at Option one in Bromsgrove, if anyone can match it, he will. Top Job too.
PS dvs dave, your Tuscan is same colour as my T350 was and it is the coolest colour bar none for a TVR.

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[bowenslim9415]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the info. I am assuming that my car is chamaeleon paint... it is purple, then goes through to blue and when the sun hits it at a low angle it shines a deep yellow/oramge.

It this right?

Dave

[TVRinBFG]

Bowenslim - As you're in Yorkshire have a word with Chris Gregory

http://www.autorefinishing.co.uk/

He's painted panels on chameleon cars for me.

[Basil Brush]

There´s a guy called Chris Gregory based in Knaresborough who knows what he´s doing. He used to be the painter at the Harrogate dealership before setting up on his own.

[PascalBuyens]

bowenslim9415 said:

Hi guys,

Thanks for the info. I am assuming that my car is chamaeleon paint... it is purple, then goes through to blue and when the sun hits it at a low angle it shines a deep yellow/oramge.

It this right?

Dave

I guess that's called Reflex Purple. Either way, it's a changing colour.

And like I said somewhere else on PH, different answers on this one. One painter says it's a nigthmare to paint, the last one that resprayed the back end of the car said it was a pleasure to paint as he didn't need to colour match (it changes anyway)

[Joat]

What you have to be careful of is whether your car was originally sprayed with oil based or water based paint.

I had a Tuscan which was a Dec 2000 car and sprayed with oil based Chamealeon Blue paint. When I came to have the small bonnet
resprayed due to small chips, the garage told me that you could only get the paint in water based and that they had found that on
a previous jobs it didn't match.

Luckily they had a small amount of oil based left from a previous job and suggested that they do the majority of the work with water
based and then do a final blow over with the oil based. It was a good job and a perfect match.

So I suggest you find out whether it is oil based or water based before carrying out any major work.