My car is painted Kandy Blue, and I've heard they don't manufacture Kandy Colors anymore. So I'm stuck with my paintjob and all the damage I've received can't be fixed because I can't repaint anything anymore! Anyone know anything about this or know a place that sells it still?

 

i just went and bought house of kolor kandy yesterday for my car so it better not be going out of style because it cost be all most $1000.00

 

that sucks man...

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you know if you get any damage you have to repaint the whole car right? buy candy paint that you can actually repair

 

Damn, i hope that isnt true

 

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Not true bro, you will always be able to get House of Kolor paints its just like ppg, dupont and so on just they make all custom colors instead of OEM... just learned about all this today in paints class

 

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you know if you get any damage you have to repaint the whole car right? buy candy paint that you can actually repair</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think you can just paint the whole pannel. as long as it's painted at the same temperature and pressure you should be alrite.

 

It's very hard panel painting kandy . . . when a kandy car needs an entire panel repainted, it's best just to repaint the entire car. I have helped paint two seperate cars kandy (my wife's Protege5 and my brother-in-law's Tacoma) and the thing about candy is that you have to spray it from front to back with even pressure and paint flow. Any varation in the base, drying times, and actual kandy will have it looking unmatched. There's a few Expeditions rolling around NW Louisiana that have been painted like this and it's just horrible to look at . . .

 

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I think you can just paint the whole pannel. as long as it's painted at the same temperature and pressure you should be alrite.</TD></TR></TABLE>

doubt it, you wont be able to color match that to be that perfect

 

candy paint is very very hard to rematch.. even if its from the same batch if its sitting and you reuse it at a later time there are a lot of variables that come into play and not allow the paint to match.

as mentioned, temperature, pressure... and hummidity as well. you can get it to match "close enough" but it will never be perffect unless the whole car is resprayed

 

I never knew this, so it seems like an impractical choice when it comes to paint..

Good to know..

 

Kandy is pretty, but it's a lot of work. My wife's Protege5 is painted a kandy purple (black basecoat with a red wine kandy) and when it's washed and waxed, it's unbeatable. You just have to be prepared to spend if you ever need repairs.

 

HOK still manufs Kandys. i am personally not a Kandy kind of guy

it's not THAT hard to match. as long as the same tip/technique/painter is used, it will be very close. probably so close that most people couldn't tell the difference in that panel

 

i have kandy on my car and just buy the over spary on the doors was more then the car because we painted them face up made them not match i did repaint the car now and the car matches fine and we did not have to paint the whole car but now i have to do some more patch work and we are going to have to do the back 1/2 of the car because i did the car seimless bumbers and skirkts

 

hmmm........

 

yes kandy paint jobs are almost pointless for daily driven cars.
i wouldonly paint a car that color if i lived in the boonies where there are no cars, or it was a trailor queen.

 

that paint looks realllly nice