repairing and painting car
04-21-2014, 06:57 AM
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04-30-2014, 09:35 AM
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After having a blistering issue with a repair to the front of the hood we switched to a filler called transtar 1738. It wasn't due to shrinking but rather a reaction between the chemicals and the smc. So went back through and redid all three holes. Almost done with hood. We'll see how the ghost stripes look today in the sun.
04-30-2014, 05:46 PM
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Well thanks to gm and their **** up of the paint code on the rpo sheet I now have 200.00 of useless paint. The rpo sheet show U9259 91u for the paint code. When talking to the paint store that code came up as a silver. So called dealership and gave the vin they said u9529 was the correct code. Well that's polo green that came on c4 cars.
Found this thread too late.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/1583973979-post16.html
now I have to redo hood with correct paint code wa9539. Here's a pic of my rpo sheet showing their **** up. And I am not the only c5 with this mixed up number.
Found this thread too late.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/1583973979-post16.html
now I have to redo hood with correct paint code wa9539. Here's a pic of my rpo sheet showing their **** up. And I am not the only c5 with this mixed up number.
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05-01-2014, 11:09 AM
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After much discussion with the local gm dealership body shop the guy looked through the manuals to tell me this dark bowling green metallic paint does not exist. I told him my window sticker says it right on it. He said aybe customer special ordered it by giving them a paint chip. I replied well someone else did that because my fuel door is from a different car.
Either way this is proving difficult to find. Next step is to scan the paint on the car to match.
Either way this is proving difficult to find. Next step is to scan the paint on the car to match.
05-01-2014, 05:53 PM
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This is solved. It is a wa9539 paint code. Gm 47. Talking with the local paint supply place they had 5 versions of wa9539. So the first paint chip was slightly brighter. The second one was dead on with the door jamb. The explanation he gave which makes sense is at the plant they don't necessarily flush the lines between painting cars. So if the previous car was black then there will be some slight pigment left over thus mixing with the new color coming through.
Here's a pic of the paint code on the can. It is a dupont brand called diamont.
Here's a pic of the paint code on the can. It is a dupont brand called diamont.
