Perfect Paint Matching…with the Progressive Dot Method After your blend looks good, paint on the clearcoat and you’re good to go. I usually put on three to five coats of the final pearl coat, blending out further each time (Photo 4). If you don’t have a good blend with the white-tinted pearl base, it won’t work. Start by fogging it, each coat going past the pearl-tinted-with-white base. When your blend looks good, switch to the pearl base. And you still have the other half of your true pearl to spray. This is how you create your blend: by adding white to your pearl base. Keep blending into the door and fender, going further and further by small, three-inch increments, keeping in mind that three coats equals nine inches of blend. If the door doesn’t start blending in after three coats, you’ll need to add some more white base to your pearl. You should be able to then take off the paper from the door and spray two coats right over the white base area and allow the overspray to go onto the door and a little past the white base on the fender (Photo 3).īe patient. Now you have a semi-opaque white base with pearl in it. Take your base white and pour 7 percent of it into one of the two pearl cups. Now here’s the real blending secret for all three-stage paints: mix up your pearl coat, then pour off half into another cup. Feather it out on the edges, keeping as far away from the hood as possible. Now spray the driver’s door and front fender with white sealer, keeping it down where the gray primer is (Photo 3). After you spray on your adhesion promoter over the areas to be blended and it’s dry, tape off the rear door. There’s not much room, but it can be done.įirst, prep the entire job and tape off. In Photo 2, you can see I’m going to blend my white sealer, white base and pearl clearcoat in the small area of the front fender. Now I have the best match possible for the white base on the three-stage pearl white. It started out too dark, so I kept adding white to lighten it up and let the dots dry until – bingo! – I got one that matches. Then, I tint my light base using my own “progressive dot” method. Now you have the exact factory white base in front of you so there’s no need to guess. I always go for the lighter-than-variance one.Īfter I sand down to the factory white base, I use 1000 grit and polish the area. In this instance, there are three to choose from: a lighter one, a darker one and one that’s more yellow. But with three-stage pearls, you can’t determine which white base to choose from – it’s all a guessing game. You could also just work on where the base is featheredged by the dent you’re repairing.Īs we all know, there are several base white options to choose from. I start by using an old piece of 500 grit to sand through the clearcoat and pearl coat and down to the base white that’s actually on this car. We had taken the hood off this car during a repair a month prior, so when the car came back after another crash, I knew the hood would match. Photo 1 shows my first step with a Subaru Forester that I’m blending with a three-stage pearl white. You have to tweak things here and there, but that comes with experience. It still looks like a pearl coat but you can actually blend it like a regular basecoat. Final results of Pearl White may appear slightly different than the rest of your vehicle depending on the lighting environment and application process used.The secret to success is to add white or red or whatever color your three-stage is and add 7 percent solid basecoat to your first pearl coat. White is not compatible with Pearl White paint. 1x squeegee (used for large application needs).When placing your order, please ensure to match the product four-letter paint code with the vehicle paint code located on the label attached to the driver side door. Please see the below detailed instructional video on this product. This process can be repeated multiple times to build layers of paint and fill in chips of varying depth per the desired results. This paint system is a two stage process of applying paint to cover the defect and then blending the excess paint to smooth the finish. Application is quick and allows users to easily fill in paint chips to a smooth surface within a few simple steps. Cover up paint chips from road debris and rocks with the Tesla Paint Repair Kit.
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