RC 4 stage paint madness

[andrey77]

Hi, got story and question!

My cards  in red and spoiled completely by the painter.  

The car needed to be spray only on the  front wing and passanger door but  it has to be respray almost whole by now.

First time painter spray it with a  big blends without prior try cos he mix the paint by the code and did not expect anything bad painted the car, paint was wrong tone.   Garage went to the car paint specialist with proper equipment to mix again, painter painted second time with even more blend, paint better but still wrong tone so the car exterior is ruined, I'm in big shock.

I brought the car to the company called  PaintChip in Brent Cross, Wembley today where the painter worked for 10 years. They quote me £2300 to correct their ex employee job, gave me 400 quid discount because of him. So the car will be resprayed with blend to the places where original paint left.

I just search online about this Lexus new paint and found that paint is 4 stage coats   so I scare they won't be able to match it again.

Should I stop them and pull it to Lexus?

 

 

The luminous red paint is achieved through a meticulous paint process using four base coats of paint which are then baked twice. Layers of colored and clear coating are used to control some of the color’s reflections and establish a balance between the brightness and depth – two elements that traditionally work against each other.

For the red exterior, the factory starts with a base coat of silver and then applies a clear coat.

Then, the clear coat is covered by a translucent red coat, which is then topped with another clear coat.

The four coats of paint are baked twice to set the color.

As a result, light hitting the paint reflects off the red layer and also off the silver layer below, which adds depth and a metallic highlight to the red coloration.  Prior to this new, two-color base process, the factory used base coats with the same color tone (red and red).

[DavidCM]

Andrey -- I too have a(sonic) red RC.Somebody drove into the back of me last year,damaging mostly the plastic bumper.The body shop replaced the bumper and a few other minor parts.The main effort and expense went into the repainting of the car.Even though only the bumper was replaced,the rear third of the car had to be resprayed in order to get the paint to match.

They did this perfectly.I used the Lexus body shop for Lexus Reading(it's actually at Jemca Bracknell,part of the same group).It was expensive..about £3500..but paid by the other person's insurers.

So if they do a good job,then their figure of£2300 is probably about right.. assuming they do a perfect job.

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[DavidCM]

Correction..it was £5100.That included about £1200 of parts and about £1200 for paint materials.If you went to a Lexus body shop they would be used to blending Lexus paint colours.

I suggest you get a Lexus quote to compare and make an informed decision.

[NemesisUK]

I was quoted £1200 to correct a stone chip on the bonnet on my sonic red RC. The 5 stage paint is expensive to repair! 

[andrey77]

When bought the car from the auction I did not count that expensive repainting job and don't expect the painter would damage paintwork even more.

While do this post I spoke with those guys from PaintChip and they said that to paint this colour with blending  is very very risky and for the quote they gave me earlier  they decided to paint whole bottom except the roof. I believe the painters on the side was scaring  to spoil something again I heard their conversation when brought the car.

Will update

[andrey77]

The car is fully painted and awaiting polishing. The job is 10 from 10.