Paint job crisis (please help)
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Paint job crisis (please help)
I own an '09 Mellow Yellow Mini, and my dad hit a cat or a dog when he was driving it. We took it to the Mini of Monrovia Dealer and they sent us to Custom Auto Craft Collision Center to get a new bumper and repair the radiator damage...When we got it back, the paint job looked great, but that was during the day...at night, it's a whole other story. My bumper looks like it matches up just fine during the day, but at night it goes from mellow yellow to lemon yellow... im super pissed! i expected the repair shop to give me normal Mini Cooper paint, not some glow-in-the-dark/color-changing paint! That's cool for crayola and painting f***king butterflies, but not my car. Anyone know why the paint may change color??
Im thinking it's because it's not Mini/BMW paint, but I'm not sure.
Im thinking it's because it's not Mini/BMW paint, but I'm not sure.
#2
That's unacceptable. Wow.
Take your MINI back to them. If they don't believe you because they're looking at it in natural sunlight, tell them to pull it into a dark bay and turn on an artificial light. They'll see what I'm seeing and they should be ashamed of that paint job.
There's no reason they can't match up the paint perfectly. Appears they mixed the paint wrong.
Take your MINI back to them. If they don't believe you because they're looking at it in natural sunlight, tell them to pull it into a dark bay and turn on an artificial light. They'll see what I'm seeing and they should be ashamed of that paint job.
There's no reason they can't match up the paint perfectly. Appears they mixed the paint wrong.
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I own a 05MCS and i have a minor paint crisis myself. while spraypainting a lamp outside, my dad got overspray on my roof and a little on my sunroof. I have a black roof. its not too bad. but you cant tell from far away, but once u get closer it looks as if my roof is sparkley. does anyone know how i can get this overspray out? i tried waxing but that didnt touch it. please help, im open to any suggestions THANKS
#7
I own a 05MCS and i have a minor paint crisis myself. while spraypainting a lamp outside, my dad got overspray on my roof and a little on my sunroof. I have a black roof. its not too bad. but you cant tell from far away, but once u get closer it looks as if my roof is sparkley. does anyone know how i can get this overspray out? i tried waxing but that didnt touch it. please help, im open to any suggestions THANKS
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My Husband got some overspray on my BLACK '01 Dodge Durango (used to be my Pirde & Joy), I called a Mobile Detailing outfit, told them what had happend, they them come out, detailed the Durango to look like new!! It did cost me $275, but it was well worth it, your MINI being smaller it shouldn't cost that much.
Good Luck!!
Good Luck!!
#9
My son's MINI is Mellow Yellow. He got hit twice in a year. Both times we played with the color over and over. DuPont has a slight issue matching that color. It was close, but by no means dead on. I could tell, but most people couldn't. After some vandalism we just reshot the whole car with a really neat pearl yellow. I can forget matching that no matter what!!
As for the over spray, Yep, Claybar!
As for the over spray, Yep, Claybar!
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My son's MINI is Mellow Yellow. He got hit twice in a year. Both times we played with the color over and over. DuPont has a slight issue matching that color. It was close, but by no means dead on. I could tell, but most people couldn't. After some vandalism we just reshot the whole car with a really neat pearl yellow. I can forget matching that no matter what!!
But if they'd given me a car that turned blue-and-purple at night, I definitely would not have been amused!
Enough story time. Good luck with the re-painting!
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