GEN 2 Question for the mall crawlers out there....

19PANDA said:

You’ll never get an exact match with plastic (flares) to metal (fenders, quarters, bumpers) no matter how hard you try. We do our best to mitigate this by blending color when we paint vehicles. Adding to the issue of different substrates, each color code has a different set of variants. Your code for Leadfoot (JX) could have 3 or 4, or 15 different variants. When we do a job we get out our paint chips to match the closest variant we can then spray out a test panel to ensure we are as close as possible before we spray.

I think your truck looks great for what it is bud! Not many people besides yourself will see the color difference, and if they do, tell them you had the flares painted recently and your truck is 3 years old to explain the discrepancy.

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Eco-BEAST 28 said:

Thank you for the kind words and thank you for explaining the process, i honestly had no idea that much went into it. I might have expected a little too perfect of a match but your explination makes sense and at the end of the day i can live with it.

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Irwin Fletcher said:

I went with 3M wrap, cost less and can been undone for re-sale or trade purposes.

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19PANDA said:

Too many times the shops, to their own detriment, don’t explain the process and leave people with unrealistic expectations. In this case, I’m sure the dealer told you everything would be perfect without ever consulting the body shop themselves. I can see the difference you’re talking about but wouldn’t notice it in passing, I think your truck looks killer!

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Eco-BEAST 28 said:

Weirdly enough, just got an email from the GM of the dealership and THEY arent happy with it so they are taking it back to paint for me today to attempt for a closer match. Wasnt expecting that but im really happy they are willing to try.

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TXRaptor said:

That is great news! The lighter color on the flares would have bothered me every time I looked at it.

I had the fender flares, door handles, mirror caps and bumpers painted on my Tuxedo Black Metallic Gen 1 and they matched perfectly. I do not agree with the others who said it cannot be done do to different surfaces, blah blah blah. A good paint shop can make them match...

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TXRaptor said:

That is great news! The lighter color on the flares would have bothered me every time I looked at it.

I had the fender flares, door handles, mirror caps and bumpers painted on my Tuxedo Black Metallic Gen 1 and they matched perfectly. I do not agree with the others who said it cannot be done do to different surfaces, blah blah blah. A good paint shop can make them match...

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19PANDA said:

A good paint shop will blend adjacent panels to ensure color match. To just make a blanket statement like “a good shop....” won’t change the fact that material acts differently according to the surface that was painted.

Plus, “a good shop” can match black with black pretty easy, Leadfoot is a little tougher.

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TXRaptor said:

That is great news! The lighter color on the flares would have bothered me every time I looked at it.

I had the fender flares, door handles, mirror caps and bumpers painted on my Tuxedo Black Metallic Gen 1 and they matched perfectly. I do not agree with the others who said it cannot be done do to different surfaces, blah blah blah. A good paint shop can make them match...

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