A friend of mine has had to get a ford door changed and some dents removed and resprayed under the insurance, and when he got it back the respray feathered edges stand out like a sore thumb as the flecks are lighter in colour than the old paint. Its gone back but this is not the first time I've heard how hard it is to get metallic effect paint fixed without respraying the whole thing.
Glad I'll never drive, honestly... Brian
Just be glad it wasn't the green/purple colour that Ford had as an option for a while in the US. Version are now available aftermarket, but can you imagine trying to repair damage to one?
Yuk!
My wife nearly went for the default bright yellow for her EcoSport. However, they gave her a good deal on the solid white, for which she was grateful (so was I). The yellow one was bought by a local estate agent whose trademark colour was that yellow.
Officer: "And what colour was the car that ran down that guy" Bystander: "It was red" Bystander 2: "no, it was green" Bystander 3: "no, it was yellow!"
All down to the skills of the repairer. My last car was dark green metallic. Got a scrape to the rear wing which the 'other' insurance company paid for. Whole wing was resprayed, and stood out like a sore thumb. Gave them the 'either you make that wing match the rest of the car, or the rest of the car match that wing'. And the second attempt was perfect. My guess is they tried to save money by using cheap paint.
What's the matter with yellow? Highly visible. White shown drips from overhead trees and the non-white components of bird s*it.
White is a bad colour, as we found out when using a loan car for some weeks that was white.
Mind you, the range of colours these days is piss-poor.
I guess you didn't buy a Mini :)
For a sign of how really screwed up the world of paint on cars has become there is now just one 'zero cost' colour on the Mini, a metallic grey, everything else, solid or metallic is £475, except for the solid blue or green which are £750.
I've found generally that light colours show up dirt less than dark. Did have a white car once, and nothing like so bad as black. But the once popular silver is probably best.
Or got the expert to do it, rather than the apprentice.
It was actually the base green that looked wrong - rather than how it was applied. It was a very dark green you could mistake for black on a dull day. Only in the sunlight did it sparkle.
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