Actually, the automotive industry has long been aware of the difficulty in matching paint colors between the metal of body parts and the plastic of bumper covers and other non metal surfaces.
Here's something you've probably never seen or heard of:
Some things never seem to change, I remember the days in the 70's when dealerships had to go through newly delivered cars and straighten misaligned bumpers, clean drips of glue, and make sure the doors and windows worked correctly. This is totally a quality control issue and not a particularly complicated one either. The difference in the 2nd and 3rd photo is so extreme that its likely not a problem with how the paint was mixed but that its a completely different factory shade.
Actually, the automotive industry has long been aware of the difficulty in matching paint colors between the metal of body parts and the plastic of bumper covers and other non metal surfaces.
ReplyDeleteHere's something you've probably never seen or heard of:
https://scrs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Recommendations-for-Handling-the-Plastic-Bumper-Color-Match-Challenge.pdf
And yes, I realize the title of your article says "the factory" and this article is in reference to collision repair...but it's the same issue.
and yes, I've been aware of the problem since the "elasometric" bumpers of 1970 at least.
DeleteBut that is beside the point.
50 years, and this bullshit color match is leaving the factory after meeting the QA and QC standard?
It's bullshit.
By the way, I love the Axalta company products.
But the title of the post is where I focused, and the photos.
What the aftermarket does to solve the problem of collision repair is another matter that I'm not going to cross contaminate my point with.
I'm simply appalled that new cars that cost over 30k look this ridiculous from the factory.
It's bullshit.
Some things never seem to change, I remember the days in the 70's when dealerships had to go through newly delivered cars and straighten misaligned bumpers, clean drips of glue, and make sure the doors and windows worked correctly. This is totally a quality control issue and not a particularly complicated one either. The difference in the 2nd and 3rd photo is so extreme that its likely not a problem with how the paint was mixed but that its a completely different factory shade.
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