Are all metallic black paint the same.............

[umar b]

............or is there a noticable differnce between manufacturers. The reason i ask is some utter banged their door on my driver side rear quarter panel, leaving a dent. Fortunatley for him, he didn't hang about other wise i would havehim. Now there are a few spots on the car that could do with a touch up, like the front bumper, which is prone to fading anyway. I was thinking of having a respray, like a blow over, the original colour isn't a metallic so was thinking of spraying it a deep glos metallic black, but there are a lot of different types of black paint available, would i make sense to go with the cheapest available met black?

or....

Umar B

[cortinaman]

have you tried a london taxi workshop? there is a fair few around (i know there is one in feltham and there was also one in brentford)these guys work with black all the time.


>> Edited by cortinaman on Sunday 6th April 15:56

[Podie]

Can't comment for other manufacturers, but Ford have several different shads of the same colours in many case... for example Moondust silver and Stardust silver may look the same at a glance, but put them together and you'll see the difference...

[TheLemming]

Podie said: Can't comment for other manufacturers, but Ford have several different shads of the same colours in many case... for example Moondust silver and Stardust silver may look the same at a glance, but put them together and you'll see the difference...

Its the same with "black" paint.

There are enough shades of black without even thinking about the mettalics (varying shade of black, varying degree of sparkle etc).

[Umar B]

TheLemming said:Its the same with "black" paint. There are enough shades of black without even thinking about the mettalics (varying shade of black, varying degree of sparkle etc).

A ha! the answer i was looking for thanks ...er...lem (?!)

So what metallic black looks nice?

[wedg1e]

Guy I work with has a VW Corrado (oh well) in metallic black... looks OK I suppose.
My 390 is met silver... several different shades of it, and several more underneath, where it's been scraped! Aarrgghhhh!

Ian