Help with Paint Matching

[Jpeterson]

Dear Forum, I have a 99 Ocean Blue Mettalic Boxster and I am putting a body kit on it. I have tried everything my local PPG dealer can think of and just cant get the basecoat paint to match. The car has never been re-painted and the rest of the paint is in very good shape. I have spent almost $500.00 trying different formulas of PPG basecoat and the closest I have gotten is by using the cheap "shop line" brand and adding my own green and blue pearls to it but it is still not a great match. Does any professional painter have the color code formula for PPG that I can have the dealer mix? I would really appreciate it as I am totally lost at this point. Something so simple can turn out to be so hard at times but I am sure that a forum member can help me. Thank you very much!

[Brad Roberts]

Did they not "flake off" a sample from the actual car itself? I'll tell you now, it is nearly impossible to match paint that is 10 years old. It fades, and metallics are the hardest to match :(

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[pk2]

Ditto, especially metallics.If the little metallic chips are not standing up at the exact a same angle as the original paint, forget it. You can screw around with the pressure and spray pattern but your really shooting in the dark. The other thing to consider is that the original paint was applied in a and, with a, totally different environment and process. With metallic that's a big diff. by itself.

I've seen good painters do it but you may be far more discriminating than I. Cheery little post isn't it.

Good Luck P.K.