paint question?????????

[plumcrazy]

dont know if this one goes here or not.


my buddie jason has a 2004 vette whick is black and is havin
problems with a repaint from the dealership where he got it.
the side had some paint problem (the car is brand new)
the dealer said it was from the factory but i just cant believe
that. this will be the third time for the respray and he is a little
upset which i and all of you could could understand
his car is black and he has the paint code but the dealer says
there are 19 variations of that color. is this true??? should the
paint code he has be the exact color to be sprayed on the car not
some variation of the color............

 

[Vette_Newb]

"A little upset" would be an understatement. He needs to quit messing around with this dealer and get in contact with GM directly.

 

[Yellow95]

The last time I checked GM's black there were at least 4 different variences on that color. I agree w/ vette newb, at this point he needs to contact a GM rep. Black is not always 'black" but 3 times?!!!

 

[plumcrazy]

he told me this morning they painted it last time and it looked brown and you could surf on the waves

 

[c4cruiser]

Some dealerships do not always invest in high-quality equipment for painting and the body shop people may not have as much experience as those at a paint and body shop where they do that work constantly. This sounds like a problem with poor workmanship at the dealer. Definitely contact the GM regional office and get it squared away.

OVerall paint quality at the plant is usually very good. The cars are painted almost exclusively by robots and if a painted part does not meet the standards, it is pulled from the car or the line the parts are on and another part is substituted. Sometimes a complete car will be pulled for repainting.

When I toured the Bowling Green plant last June, there was a complete Z06 in LeMans Blue sitting alongside the line that had what I thought was decent looking paint, but the car almost comletely failed the QC inspection. They wre going to remove as many of the body parts as possible and replace them and then re-spray by hand where necessary.

GM Black does have variations, but the RPO sticker on the car should have the correct paint code and the shop should have mixed the correct paint for the car based on that RPO code. It sounds like somebody grabbed a can of "black" without looking at the code.