I need help matching paint to my wheel. I have been to every paint shop, had paint distributors take picutres of my wheel to pull the paint code, and I have been to every dealership trying to get the closest match possible, and nothing looks right. I have used the net as my resource checking webitsites, doing searches, and even using paintscratch.

I have the gunmetal Work RSZ-R. I attached an image of the wheel. I have a 96 Civic EX Coupe. Help me out!!

 

plenty of view, but no suggestions, help me out, the car is in the body shop completely taken apart.

 

So you want your car to match the color of the rszr? why dont you get a color close to it? i mean why be exact?

 

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because that is what he wants.

 

i want exact, but if there is something that looks good and is close to a match, then i might have to go for that. thanks eg6sir-s


Modified by 6gencivic at 5:48 AM 1/6/2007

 

Did you try home depot?

 

Contact Work and see if they'll give you some sort of color code.

 

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It is impossible to get info from Work, I have tried.

Leo what would Home Depot do for me, they don't sell automotive paint?

 

Get new stickers and paint the Works to match your car!

 

it seems slightly lighter than a phantom gray, try phantom grey and see if they can lighten it up a bit. but if anything paint the wheels to match your car.

 

best thing you can do is to get some samples and match it up from there.

 

i have tried the samples, but it is so hard to match it, the tones are either too blue, too purple, or too brown. hard to find something that matches it close.

i thought about painting the wheels, but they are mint, and it takes away from the originality of a discontinued jdm wheel.

keep the suggestions coming! thanks for all the help!!

 

I'm pretty sure Sherwin Williams can match ANY colour?! Thats what our Sherwin dealer told me?!

I dunno.

 

did they use a spectrophotometer? ppg claims to be a 99% match. ive used it on a milano red ej8 to paint the sideskirts and it matched exactly.

 

go to a paint shop and get some sample chips

 

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lol

 

All auto body shops have a huge book with basically every car color, code, and sample in it. I would find the closest one you can and start modding the weights of each paint. Its going to take some time and cash. Good Luck, this will look insane!