Getting Blends Right The First Time
Monday, May 24th, 2004 AutoThat‘s a Match! Because nearly every repair ends up needing blended, you need to get it right the first time or you can kiss your profits goodbye. Aahh, the good old days. Remember when you‘d get a body job - like replacing a hood? You‘d order the hood and call the local paint store to order the paint, usually acrylic enamel or acrylic lacquer. After installing the hood, you‘d mask off the fenders and paint the hood. Of course, 90 percent of the time, it didn‘t match. The good thing was, it wasn‘t expected to match. If the customer complained, you could always blame the paint company. "It‘s the only formula they have," you‘d say. If you were lucky, you‘d have stripes on the fenders so you could at least paint over the top of the fender to hide the mismatch. Yep, those were the days.
