I am absolutely LIVID!

[flyboyron]

I recently had my truck repaired from an accident and finally got the upgraded grille and front of the truck painted all white that I have been wanting for many years.

The grille alone was over $400.00 and took 3 weeks to get it from Michigan. I wanted that LTZ grille more than anything.

When I got the truck back, I noticed the hood color did not match the drivers side fender that hadn't been damaged and the new grille. Those were the factory color Summit White.

I discussed this with the owner and even explained to him and showed him with actual pictures of the truck of what I thought would be the easiest and cheapest way to fix this.

They worked on the truck a few days and I got it back. The paint still does not match.

I talked to the owner again, and he said he painted the grille and the drivers fender to match the hood.

I went out and looked real close at the truck just now and I can see paint runs and tape marks on my new $400 grille.

I am so upset. He ruined a perfectly good grille.

He just painted more of the wrong color on more parts so it would match better.

OOOOOOOHHHHHH. I am so mad I could scream!

 

[CamGTP]

Hmm.

[Colossus]

well you win some and you get screwed some..

[carkhz316]

You need to find a better body shop. My brother is a PPG and I-CAR certified painter and he has no issues with paint matching. He said only a few OEM colors have some difficulty, but none are white, contrary to popular belief/ myth.

[tmo]

Doesn’t white kinda “fade” over time due to pollen and other chemicals that get on the paint. I feel like every white truck no matter how clean it is never looks as white as the ones that come off the lot. I wash mine with the 2 bucket method and polish it once a year after clay, and it still doesn’t seem as “fresh” as the new trucks. If this is the case then maybe you just needed to buff and polish the older paint.

[Colossus]

Ditto.  Good point, Trent. 

[flyboyron]

7 hours ago, tmo said:

Doesn’t white kinda “fade” over time due to pollen and other chemicals that get on the paint. I feel like every white truck no matter how clean it is never looks as white as the ones that come off the lot. I wash mine with the 2 bucket method and polish it once a year after clay, and it still doesn’t seem as “fresh” as the new trucks. If this is the case then maybe you just needed to buff and polish the older paint.

But for some reason my truck hasn't faded. The stock color of the fender and the new grille matched. If he would have painted the truck the stock factory color there would have been no problem. The paint color they used had a yellow tint to it and I think it is because they figured the truck had faded and purposely painted it as if it had faded.

So their solution in fixing that was instead of trying to feather in the edges of the parts they painted with the correct color paint, (which would have cost them more money to mix more paint) they just painted more parts with the left over faded color paint to make it match.

If this guy is too cheap to paint the front section of the hood to make it match the grille, he is definitely not going to spend $400.00 on replacing that grille that he half ass painted and ruined.

Now I am wondering if I spend the money and buy another grille and install it, will it be more noticeable that it doesn't match  because now both fenders and the hood are a different color.

[intheburbs]

I think you need to find a better body shop.  As a father of three college-age kids, I have a little bit of experience with body shops from the past 5-6 years.  The shop I use has what seems to be a color-matching camera.  They place it on the body panels adjacent to the ones to be replaced/repainted, and it matches the color perfectly.  They've done four of my vehicles - white, red, blue and black - varying years from 2001 to 2015, and the paint has been matched perfectly every time.