Worst week I ever had on the floor started with a misread paint code on a 2023 Honda Civic

Customer brought in a pearl white Civic for bumper repair, I mixed the paint based on the code under the hood, and after spraying it turned out the driver's side door had been resprayed by a previous shop using a completely different variant, so I had to strip everything and start over with a tint match that took three tries and cost me an extra five hours of labor anybody else run into two different whites on the same car like that?

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mitchell.mark29d ago

Two different whites on one car? I'd have just walked out and let the car sort itself out.

rowan26229d ago

Whoa, hold up - that driver's side door was already resprayed before you even touched it? That's the kind of hidden surprise that makes you want to just walk away for a minute. In my experience, those mismatched panels from other shops are the absolute worst to deal with, especially on pearl whites.