Here's One For The Conquest Guys.

[Black97civic]

Originally posted by TalonTSiDude@Jun 1 2004, 04:02 PM
None of the blue SQ's are the exact same color. Mitsu kept slightly remixing the paint so each one was unique.


sorry for the 2 back to back posts, but this might be true. My friend tried to look up paint codes for me so he could use his school discount to buy my paint, and he came up with 2 or 3 codes.

The difference in the recipes was the amounts of silver, white and blue pearl tones, so they could definately have had 3 huge vats, each with one color, and load their spray guns up with diff ratios of the colors for each car.

He said he had never seen anything like that before, having so many recipes so similar.

Anyway, mine is a mix of the silver and blue pearl tones, so hopefully it will look like the stock color.

[MATCHBX]

If you want a true match to your stock paint, take off the fuel door and find a paint place that has an analyzer. They can analyze the paint that is on there and get an exact color match recipe for it. Then they will mix it up and it will match perfectly. I'm not sure of who has one around here but I remember there were a few places in St. Cloud that had one.

[FattyBoomBatty]

if st. cloud has one,then the cities area has got to have one.

[Black97civic]

Originally posted by awd1dr@Jun 2 2004, 05:42 AM
If you want a true match to your stock paint, take off the fuel door and find a paint place that has an analyzer. They can analyze the paint that is on there and get an exact color match recipe for it.
well, I already have mine mixed and everything, and my friend got a good discount on it by going through his school, so its all good.

But just out of curiosity, would that work on 15 year old, faded and oxidized paint, I can't imagine how it would "see past" all the imperfections and find the good color underneath.