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The Renault painting thread

Oh....shitballs. Is there any way of knowing which variant I have? It's a 60-plate Clio i-Music.

Fancy painting a 60-plate Clio i-Music in Cassiopee grey for me? View attachment 147030
there's no way of knowing what variant you have, as it depends on what paint manufacturer your local supplier is using, best way to check is to take something off the car thats painted,(fuel flap is normally favourite) and get them to chip it up with their colour chips or if they have a spectro like clarky_gtt said they can use that for an as close as possible match.
think you might be a bit far away for me to paint a bumper for you 😄


if you have another other questions tho dave just fire away 👍
 
My mk4 Clio’s are the same colour and using them as a comparison that’s not to bad .
Go and have a look in a Renault show room you will be surprised what they are like new . I was kicking my heals waiting for my traffic van a few weeks ago wondering round the show room l was quite shocked at the paint finish and colour match .
 
all bumpers these days on new cars are a different colour, as they are painted in different factories than the main shell and panels so use a different batch code of paint, some are an absolute mile out and laughable to say the least but people dont tend to notice until they bring them in for repair and you point it out to them to cover you arse, and painted plastic always casts different than metal for some reason.

its not a million miles out there dave but if you where to do it again i would be looking at a reder darker variant
 
Colour match doesn't look that bad compared to some factory cars. Personally it's the orange peel from the primer not being flatted, not the top coat that's making it look worse than it is? Flat it with 800 and top coat/laquer it again.
 
Had to colour up 6 personnel doors last week to match the cladding In single pack cromadex paint , bloody brilliant stuff , the doors come in a primer , so a quick buzz of with the DA and clean and paint . 01C2AE26-FBD1-441F-8791-2948813F8049.webp
 
some 2k frozen white on the there will do the trick, and then polymask the walls, then when its covered in crap just peel it off and re do 😁
 
Looked the poly mask a while back but don’t use it on a day to day basis, few cars when I have to and mainly these personnel doors . How does cope being left for a while ? Does it need redoing due to time or use?
Might be relocating it slightly to suit bigger vehicles mainly as a garage .
Thanks for the advice on the product I had forgotten what it was called .
 
you can leave it stuck there till the cows come home, a full roll of it is about £25 (thats for 4m wide and 150m long) and that would last ages for occasional use, just once its stopped letting the white show through and the room seems dark just pull it off and stick some more up
 
The only Good tip I have to pass on came from the best Paint/body man I know and for the jobs I have done it has served me well
Use a good paint factor for materials, ask their advice, chances are they are supplying half the bodyshops around, so know their materials.
When ordering materials ask them to print off the data sheets for the products you will be using. Read and understand the instructions on these before going any further.
Stick to the manufacturers recommendations for mix/ temp /pressure etc. It is all on the data sheet.
Doing this will not give you great results, only experience will do that, but you should not have any disasters.
I do my own prep on my own cars, and with the Dauph, I did everything, but the last coat of wet on wet and the topcoat.
It is very rewarding to produce a satisfactory Job. Very Creative. As with all things if you want the best you have to use the best. Great bodymen are now an endangered species, my mate is in his later fifties now and his Ford F100 (1960's) has to be seen to be believed, the finish appears to be a mile deep. He is the only guy I know who is a body man by day and a custom bike/truck builder as a hobby, to most others it is just a job!
 
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