USE THIS TRICK TO COLOR MATCH 

Great tips again! Your films are always informative and fun. Can’t thank you enough.

Love how real and simple explanatory you are

I would always go for the closer color match. That one looks perfect...perfect enough!

Great when the shop you work for actually gives you time to match a color correctly.

Hello braane! You are not just a professional you are a perfectionist and i just love it

Good point! You drove home thought on matching. That back bumper was 🫣 I liked your match much better!

Brian ...yet another great video mate, very informative, you speak and explain well....thanks again

great points on the bumpers. I think maybe I would want to do both bumpers to get them closer to the metal body, but i guess I can see people wanting to keep it looking like factory. I never really thought about the reason the color looks off is because of the difference in the reflection on plastic verses metal. I was impressed with how you could discern the green and red hues in the color. I didn't realize there was so many selections from the same OEM paint for a particular car. I found this to be a great video, and I agree that it can be more efficient to replace a bumper sometimes rather than try to repair it. some people are concerned with bringing the value of the car down with after market parts. Personally, I'm not so worried about that; at least not with my present truck; who knows, I get another truck and I may change how I feel about that! Great video, Brian! Thanks!

Very nice blend job!! Sorry for the posts on your other videos about wearing gloves, thanks for including it in this one. When I went to paint school there were only 2 types of paint but a new one was coming, Acrylic Enamel with hardener! Flows like enamel, hardens like lacquer! I went to school for painting way before you were born, LOL!! Clean, clean, clean was what the instructor preached and he was right. Keep the videos coming.

That's always the problem on a metal and plastic panel. Especialy the bumper. Thanks for this video. And keep making video like this. More power to you.

Can u make a video on tinting colors? Ik it takes a lot of experience to tint by just familiarizing what colors do with one another but would be very helpful!

Great explanation about why to use sealer and flex additive

Brian, after watching and listening to all your advice I painted my MG on a gravel drive in Cheshire England and I think I've pulled it off.....thanks to all your great tips and experience thanks.....at the end of the day its only paint ay..😁

We need more of these videos Brian. Color matching explanations for painters out there. You are professional and very skilled. We need your help. GREEEAAATTTT VIDEO!!!!!

Sending you love sir. I hope this information is beneficial to many. ❤

You gotta love Brian! Nice job!

Lookin' good Brian. Thanks for sharing your skills.👍👍

Although an experienced painter like yourself can make it work, I found color match with Axalta and Sikkens was already a challenge to begin with, thankfully now using Envirobase. Love Hondas btw, I sprayed at a Honda shop.

interesting comments from people seems like there is many different ways but your way I havnt seen before and I will try it thanks for the tips brian

Man, it looks almost perfect. I'm no expert when it comes to painting, but that match is spot on.

The temps and hints that you offer are awesome. I have a question for you. I have a Dodge low mileage wheelchair accessible van and have purchased replacement quarters as well as a replacement front bumper cover. Before I just repaint these panels to match the PRH code I was wondering if there is a way for the average person to replicate Mazdas soul Crystal red color. Or is that just way out in left field

looks great. when using a spray out card, make sure to check the "face"(the color 90 degrees straight in front of the eyes) and the "flop"(the color on an angle). the flop will show a different color than the face color. so for this reason when checking a spray out card, check the face and flop. you may get the face right but when you look at an angle the flop color maybe off. also check the flake size for metallic colors. this was a A+ paint class video

Using the paint code, whether numeric or desciptive, has always given me a perfect match regardles of whether the sub-strate is plastic or metal.

I like that! I was confused as to what you were doing. Now the only problem I see is that I don't have my own mixing station to add a little here and there. Maybe I can find someone who will. Great tip.

Great job explaining

"Much more better" is the best we can hope for!

Honestly, Brian!, you’re a master at your trade! You care more than most! If I lived closer you’d be my guy for my projects! I wish all shops had you! Great job!

Thanks Brian ! Can you tell me what is the brand of towel you are using with the prep cleaner? Much appreciated!

Love your channel 🥰... Sorry for contacting you this way, as a boomer I'm not really up on all the how toos of the web. 😁. That said... I'm in the market for a tier 2 gun/s... I was leaning towards the kiwami 4 until I say your review of the NoName base gun... Did you ever try their clear gun? They are comparably priced. I like that the NN has taken the guess work out for a base and clear gun as well as the local(FL) support and supplies... I recall you making similar comments about both Guns so I have to ask... Which set(base/clear) would you buy? And if the Iwata... What Needle and cap set would you choose since NN has already covered that in their set. Again I can't thank you enough for all of the wonderful information you have and continue to provide.... 👍👍👍

Hey Brian you talked about flex additive . Its only used in clear and sealer ? Can you do a video on flex additives ?

I think the bumper covers and the rest of the body on vehicles age (ie: fade) differently. If you need to replace a front or rear bumper cover, I'd point out to the customer that you're planning to match that to the rest of the vehicle and do they want you to repaint the other one to match as well? Most people don't notice any anomalies, until after a body shop has touched their vehicle.

Hi ,can you make a video for the beginners regarding what to do with leftovers primer .... basecoat.... laquer after a respray? Do you bin it? Do you save it on special container's...? Can basecoat already thinned can be store and for how long and what is suitable to store it with? Thank you

Great idea putting part of the bumper back on to colour match,I kind of agree what your friends customer said but I would have asked the bodyshop to give the rear bumper the new paint and usually rear bumpers are much easier to remove and paint than front ones so a bonus from the labour point,I guess your friend learnt a lesson...... its like me I used to say would you like me to do so and so and customer would respond.... well if you want to,....... no sir I dont want to I'm being generous so I don't ask anymore I just do as asked and usually no more

small advice from my workshop.we always hunt daylight for checking spray out card's.we do have different sun guns for bad weather and winter,3M,scangrip...but most important is that always 3 people watch the sample's in the same time.people have different quality of eyes,the one who hold sample only see the face while those looking aside have better picture.on light metalics spraying samples with one or more layer of clearcoat will change ton.wet and 1 day dry samples will differ!force drying samples with IC drayer can change ton especially on dark colours(avoid it)never trust light in spray booth(neon or led)....if customer take the job with sunglasses ,don;t worry😀

I hope you will answer this for me. I had a friend paint a 1986 trans am silver for me. Base clear coat. I built up enough confidence to paint the ground effects my self. Charcoal gray. He was not there for advice. I mixed my paint flex additive which had me guessing just how much hardener I should add. The paint came out beautiful. But as time went by. It started looking more like chip gard . That was many years ago. I'm now thinking of buying a wreaked mustang gt to rebuild and you have given me the confidence to try again. Please help me this question.

i had guy from the paint shop came scan the color spend the whole day in the shop mixing an spraying using fast drying clear just to get the front bumper to match color was Toyota Prado 070 white pearl a brand new vehicle an yes the rear bumper was the color of the vehicle , so i had to get the front bumper to match the vehicle some times you don't have a choice but to get a perfect match to the vehicle

Brian.. Great work/teaching as usual. I have a general question, After your'e done spraying material through your gun, what do you use to clean the gun insides?

thanks for your videos, all those tool boxes look the same, does the shop supply those? and yes wear a glove when cleaning a panel,them chicken wings from lunch play hell on the fisheyes, and the finished product looks better than the start for sure

If you don't have a "sun gun", can you use those low profile LED lights for home ceiling installs with the adjustable frequency to match as close as possible with sunlight?

very nice color match. another tip is to record and keep your spray out cards for future jobs. It will 100% save u time and u can also improve on ur color matches for the next time. i have a painter friend who flat out refuses to keep his sprayout cards. 4 years later and hes still wasting too much time everyday tinting colors.

Good video. You know your stuff.

I just did a spot in on a 09 ranger with Omni paint for a paint store and it looks like the paint was from the same batch as the truck was painted with new. Excellent match.

Hi Brian love your videos can u tell me what 3m pps adapter can work on iwata bellaria gun

A quick comment from an automotive coatings specialist. Bumpers will always be difficult to match E2E especially colours that travel a lot (large differences in face to mid to flop angles). Some have said in the comments that it's down to substrate (plastic vs metal) whilst true to a certain degree, is not the major factor. A phenomenon called geometric metamerism plays a huge part in perceived poor colour match. Put simply, its the slight difference in angle where the parts meet. That's why even when you blend in to the wings, a difference is still observed. A little trick that I used in the field demonstrates this perfectly. Take a painted thin metal test panel and flip it over paint side down on a surface with a little give. Next lay a ruler or straight edge over half of the panel and lightly scribe with a biro to make a slight crease in the panel. Turn the panel back over and see the effect. I used to align the crease where the bumper meets the wing to illustrate to customers the real issue.

such a great story

Brian, being in Florida the sun has damaged the top of my paint on my Pontiac fiero. My issue is that it's a pearl white and i don't have a paint code to match. My other issue is that my car has four different types of materials to paint over, sheet molded compound, reinforced reaction injection molding, reaction injection molding and thermo plastic olefin. Even though you say not to overthink it you can see why this makes me nervous lol. The car is very small so just doing the top won't require a lot of work but I'm not opposed to just paint the whole car in just a basic white but with all these different materials I just don't know. What do you think?

I do have a question about painting a bumper with some chips in the paint, should i go and repaint the whole bumper or go a cheaper route?

Dude honestly, they could use your videos at trade schools to help supplement the hands on training, beats the hell out of I CAR training videos any day. I wish I had these videos when I was coming up in the trade, would've solved alot of rookie year headaches lol

Really looking good color match. When u mentioned adding a little blue n green toner, is it ure trying to reduce the more reddish color from the spray out card sample? It seems by color wheel tint guide, by adding the opposite color of the color wheel, it will reduce the color hue of the red. I think we need a white board and marker pen to understand basic of color wheel 🤣. Anyway great job always Brian.

Do they still make flop adjuster. I quit painting for a living in 2000. The ppg global, dbc and dbu line had flop adjuster in many metalic colors. If they still use it, a show on flop adjuster would be great! I got close matches using it.

This a very usefull content like me. Actually im new about spray painter.

Good to see alot of Acura/Honda cars there is this a Specially shop?

There were 15 variants on my most recent car. Guy said just bring in the gas flap. Since I had it off anyhow, I strolled in with the whole front fascia. 😁

It's great that the shop you work for has the time to spend to do all that. The reality is (at least in my area) shops don't have the time to do this on every car. Keep in mind these are shops that have one guy who only preps and paint bumpers all day and at 10+ bumpers a day, they just pick the standard formula and roll!

I got the message 😁 thanks brian

Question .. so I’m about to spray clear and I’m using the 2.0 3m cups but before I shoot the clear spills from the lid of the cup did I close it wrong or is it something else ?

Good work

Personally I like to use epoxy primer as a sealer on all plastic parts. Flexible with great adhesions and you don't have to worry about spots that burnt through the factory primer.

I asked many paint shops how to match the factory paint Alabaster Silver Metalic NH700M and the answer was that the plastic and the metal surface absorbs and reflects differently that silver colour it never comes out 100%, this is the only colour that is very hard to match almost impossbile if you are lucky enough to get it right because there are so many variants air, humidity, temperature, additives, thinners and so on !

Worst cases I have are when customers come to the paint shop, asking for a color match and they bring me a piece of the bumper, and they tell me they're doing a bumper cover, fender, maybe a hood. I have to tell them that if we "match" this plastic piece it wont match the fenders. So I have to walk them to their cars and show them how the bumper is a different shade to the rest of the car lol.

My local Macao paint shop quoted me $1900 for a paint job on my 2012 Nissan Altima it has a few dents but mostly the clear is peeling off from the sun here in California..is the quote a good price for a urethane paint ?

I had my rear pumper replaced and painted recently by a local body repair shop. The paint came out perfect, but they did not install the nuts back, only 2 rubber brackets. I'm a home mechanic so I just install the nuts myself and be done with it. I was a bit unhappy about it.

After working in this business for so long I have yet to figure out what is going to blow it with a customer. I would have thought they would have been thrilled. But at the same time the shop estimator should have had that conversation up front and discussed options so that double work wasn't done.

How do you match aged paint? thanks!

Great content! But I’m going to challenge you on the “don’t sand the sealer” comment. You can correct a lot of minor issues by sanding the sealer rather than the base. It’s a little faster and helps kick the problem that needs attention a little easier. Try sanding the sealer with 1500. I think people say not to sand sealer because it doesn’t sand well with anything more aggressive than 1500.

not being a painter, the transparent toner is added to the clearcoat?

Brian you are doing a great job with the videos keep it up. My question is what if I am a DIY home painter and don't have all the luxuries of the color matching equipment you use or a local paint shop for chip cards? Also, should you use a flex agent in the basecoat too?

lol 2:00 “Ghost busters!!”

Looks great.... As far as the story you told, I would have paid him to match the rear bumper instead of redoing the front on an off color. Thats just me. 😁

I noticed u don't use a blow gun to dry cleaner. Do u think blowing it dry could leave dust ? I use to just dump cleaner on one rag then follow with another to dry then blow over all.Now I like spraying cleaner on surface then drying with rag.like I learned from u. Seams easier thanks

Where did u get the thing that compares the chip and car ?

Did you check both fenders?

In regards to “matching the front bumper to the factory color.” My OCD drives me crazy when I see mismatched bumpers, so, I prefer to see them match the body of the car foremost. Otherwise, great job Brian 👍🏽

Is it necessary to use only Sikkens paint, and other brands not good? And what clear coat is best, can we 3000 sand a existing old panel and do only clear to restore some look without paint... Also do you know of single stage colors which have clear already in them, like lacquer

Hi mate! I hope you notice me. Have you ever used the lesonal 288hs clear? Just wanna ask if 2:1+10% is enough to flow properly. Or do I have to add more thinners to it

Do u know if theres different variants of chrysler PA4 im trying to color match and the paint im using looks darker..

Awesome stuff some how don’t think I will be able to do that at home. May just have to do the whole car. 😂 I’ve watched enough of your videos so I’m good to go. 😂😂

how do you do the headlights?

Man I Love your videos. Can you guys paint my car.

plastic primer after paint or before paint

Love your channel... BUT, not sure if you noticed that the majority of people on RU-vid don't do body paint for a living and may not have the funds to purchase all of those products that you have at your job (very convening). Im a big DIY and currently fixing my back bumper and the only thing I can do is sand, prime, base and clear coat and that's all I'm able to do and purchase without being licensed. The amount of people that are subscribed to your channel may be the ones that do paint and body work for a living as well.

In our town body men tell the customers that if they want it looking the same then it requires a whole respray. It shuts people up quick.

Did you clear coat the cut bumper piece? I remember on a previous episode, that you said to clear rather than prepsol for a good reason, but never ended up telling us why.

"I got a funny story to tell ya.. sad actually" 😂

Hey man, nice job. I need information on where to buy some of the tools you use, I'm starting a workshop in Nigeria. Can you help?

I have always been told that white bumpers will never match exactly because the flex agent added to the paint. Is this still true?

I ordered small bottles of paint NT2 and it didn’t match, I talked to them they have a guarantee. But is it user error is there something I could do to make it match better? When you buy these paints as a DIY it comes pre mixed. And I don’t have the ability to mix and match the paint.

I actually do this .. all the guysthought I was nuts.. I use ppg water and another trick I do is when doing a white tri coat I leave out 10% of the white and it’s usually really close.

Is 1k sealer good?

As a finish color, over sanded primer, has anyone sprayed gloss hammered black for two light coats, and finished it with two medium coats of satin dark or navy blue? I want to have the hammered texture, but not so shiney, and I can't find hammered blue shades either. So I thought this would do. Both colors would be Rust-Oleum 2x brand laquer paints. I'd apply each coat about 20 to 25 minutes apart in the shade of an open carport so each layer wouldn't be wet, but just slightly tacky to surface feel dry.

Hey man what do you use for a paint suit in this Florida heat? I hate painting with short sleeves but I don't wanna die from a heat stroke lol

Having a Master's Degree in fine art helps me with color matches ..........love painting canvases , but autos are my bread and butter...lol

I got a question why does the paint job I just did gets darker depending on what ange I'm looking at it? So at certain angle it looks darker than the cars original color at just the right position it looks like perfect match and at certain angle it even looks lighter! Is this a common phenomenon in car painting?

for starters this is what you wanna do I myself made alot of mistakes in the past with color matching now the eyeball does the trick without doing a spray out

Man.. all I'm gonna say is we work in a tough industry. We recently painted the side of a metallic red Mazda (replaced rear door, blended into front door and rear quarter) and then they proceeded to complain because the already mismatched front and rear bumper didn't match the fresh paint that we did. Needless to say that was a nightmare and we ended up making little on the job. Also just wanted to say that I love these vids and have personally learned a lot from them but as a ppg deltron user I had to figure out how to do certain things with our own system ( like how to make clear base). One thing I find that happens, and I'm not sure how to really correct it, is that when you put fresh clear onto a panel you're blending in to it seems to make the color look darker than it originally was. I try to always 800 panels down to eliminate most of the original clear but it still happens.

I find Honda's and Acura are some of the most difficult matches. Darker charcoals have been a pain for me lately.

What brand paint do you use when spraying color?

I bought the color code for my car its molten orange from ford, now the problem is that the red underneath the metallic looks like its to dark, what does that mean? Wrong color red or not enough metallic?

Brian is correct. Bumpers never match the rest of the car. I use to work at a car plant and we use to see that all the time coming down the quality line

Larry at AmnoNYC says to bring your gas door to a paint shop to match. 😮