i heard they were good, but im getting a bumper replaced and i wanted to know how good their color match is?

they say they are have computerized color mathcing or something also

i just want to know if anyone has had part of their car painted with dupont painters and if you can tell me your experiences

or.... should i just get my bumper painted at the dealership?

i want to meet the halfway mark of quality and price

 

well pretty much any place you go to depending on the color of your car the bumper will not match perfect. black is no problem to panel paint, but anything else will need to be blended out into the surrounding panels to get a perfect color match.
as long as the painter you go to picks the right variance for the code and does a spray out card to check the color before they paint the bumper, you should be all good.

 

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the color will be premium white pearl on a brand new bumper from acura. even from the factory, the plastic bumpers are still darker than the rest of the body. this is on a brand new rsx type s, someone hit my car and ran.

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so you mean if he gets the color code from the car? what is a spray out card?

 

 

dupont and all other paint manufacturers have several difference "basic" colors to choose from. they use a process called tinting to match it to the oem color code of your vehicle. there are several tinting agents that can be blended into the basic color to achieve this color "match." the ratios of the tinting agents is dictated by dupont of course.

the problem is many oem paint jobs have slight tinting differences associated with them based on what factory it was actually painted at. even if they were all standard its nearly impossible to match the color perfectly. a spray card is just a card that the painter sprays with the color he just mixed as a test. he will view it next to the actual color in the sunlight to see how close the match is. many good painters are able to "eyeball" what amount of tinting must be added to make an "exact" color match.

the problem is that since most body shops make their money by high volume not high quality, so testing the color before its sprayed on the car is a process that is often bypassed. the easy fix for this is to "blend" the newly sprayed paint onto an adjacent panel so as to conceal any "hard" color contrast.

edit: and to answer your original question, dupont is highly regarded as one of the best paint manufacturers both for their durability of materials and color match.

 

wow, that was very clear dude, thank you very much!

I agree that even from the factory the body panels will not match 100%. i didnt know this until the painter showed me and i was suprised that he could eyeball that, and i couldnt.

thanks though

do you know anything about computerized color matching? he mentioned it but i forgot to ask what it was

 

yes most major systems like ppg and dupont have their own proprietary color matching systems. basically they will use a device that takes a "picture" of the paint which a computer analyses. I've never seen it done, but I've heard that its reliable to a point and will give you a good starting point to match a color if you dont have the oem code.

 

thanks, that was all explained very clearly

i now have a newfound confidence in my painter lol

and this info is gonna be badass for future searches on the subject