for starters, I didn't mean to come off that way...sorry, but it sounds from YOUR posts that you somehow believe that the car was painted some other color. and BTW, YES I do know my way around paints.........your car was painted on an assyembly line....not just some arbritary paint shop.....there were LINES of cars getting painted, all the SAME color,....so YES...the code is correct.
the FACT is...there is only ONE way that you can absolutely, without any doubt, 100% have the EXACT same chemically mixed, duplicate color....and that is if the paint that shop gets and repaints your car with is from the EXACT same batch of paint that was made, mixed and used to paint your car, kind of doubtful......considering the car is a year old, and the car was made in japan. HOWEVER, a compitent paint shop could obtain and match the color so that it can not be told to be any different....but they start with the paint code...its a code that give the paint manufacturers a FORMULA to make the color. is it possible that the BATCH of paint that your car got painted with was SLIGHTLY different? sure.....but I doubt that it was so different that you could tell when they were new.
so....can your car be slightly different? sure....for starters...depending on how much your car sits outside....how much it has baked in the sun, subjected to acid rain, and a whole host of other environmental elements...it could have faded slightly, or a dozen other things that could make the CURRENT color of your car slightly off from the NEW paint.....
so what it sounds like to me is that the body shop and the paint rep don't know their asses from a hole in the ground when it comes to paint......it seems that they are stuck in the all to common way of "well, thats the code, it must be the right shade" and have NO skill in the old school of matching colors, for a body man worth his salt would know that with time, the paint DOES change slightly...and he can't just pop the stock paint out of a can and spray it and expect a good match.
good luck at convincing the paint rep that THEY screwed up.....I believe you just ended up with your car at the wrong shop...they don't seem to have YOUR best interest at heart....they have their customers....THE INSURANCE COMPANIES!
so there is your help.....you have a uphill battle, good luck.
OH....and IF you can some how PROVE ITS NOT painted the VIVID YELLOW (code HZ)....I hope you can find some documentation and hold on to it tight...for YOU have a ONE OF A KIND Mp3 that is truely a different color than any other out there. AND worth a mint.
jk7d said:
Nuke,
I usually respect what you say but I don't think you know your way around paints based on your posts. I stated that the color code is INDEED HZ, but that I don't believe it is correct. I say that because the paint that was used was brighter than OEM paint. In any case I am not the only one to believe the Mp3 and p5 are different yellows although they share HZ as the color code. These days paints come in so many variations that picking the right variation is key. It's not as simple as going to a shop and saying this is my paint code - get me a close to perfect match. If it were I wouldn't be in this predicament as the body shop did use HZ as the code.
In any case im trying to just get input from fellow members so I can better argue my case tomorrow (i malke it sound like a trial)when I meet the shop and and the paint rep. I can tell you that your post with its air of authority, and the presumption that you can just close the discussion about something you know little about was of ABSOLUTE ZERO HELP. So next time please check that pompous attitude.
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but he exceeds in his actions."
Peace out,
JK