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My old boss told me to never trust a paint code without a test panel first
Back in 2010, I was doing a respray on a red Honda Civic and just went with the factory code. The color was way off, a full shade too orange. He made me spray a test card and hold it up to the car in the sun, and it was a perfect match to a different, older code. I wasted a whole quart of basecoat. Now I always spray a test card, even on new jobs. How many of you still do a spray-out for every color match?
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west.claire1mo ago
My painter friend swears by test panels too.
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cooper.reese1mo ago
Your friend is totally right, @west.claire. It's the only way to really know how a color will look in your own light. I skipped it once and ended up with a whole room that looked wrong all day. Now I paint a big square on the wall and live with it for a few days. It saves so much time and money in the end.
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