I got a in a fender bender during last snow storm. I stopped, he didn't. At least his 2 week old Camry looks worse.

Anyway, I am concerned that paint will never match factory paint even if I take it to the best shop.
Has anyone had any experience or problem getting shop to match the factory 3 coat 1997 arctic pearl white paint on their Max in one area on car? If so, please reply.
Thanks.

Check it out, I got a fender bender on new years eve, its sucked man. I had a nice sized dent, with the scratches and black paint all worked into my dent. I took it to a well known Auto body shop. THey were gonna charge me $600 for the fix, but they told me they had a guy who does work on the side, and was certified with them. So I met the guy and he told me he'd charge me $250 fixed and painted, plus $50 for the altezza painted. So I took it, from what he told me, they kinda of had to paint both doors, so it would match. ( I had some nasty scratches on the other door), It looks like new, this guy did a badazz job, they only difference I say you can see is the paint from the altezza's (alittle bit brighter) otherwise he matched the paint with the factory paint very well. Good luck

Do you have the tri-coat pearl white paint on yours?

Yup! Just find someone who knows what there doing. I was very pleased with this guys work. Pearl white is best color to get on a max, besides black of course.

It's a challenge for even the most talented of autobody/paint shops. I've had different sections of my Max repainted up to 4 times in order to get it to match. And even then it's not "perfect". It gets expensive real quick, especially with tri coat white pearl.

Pearl colors are matched with the pearl coat. It's the amount of pearl on the car that makes the match. Sometimes two coats is enough and sometimes 3 or 4 coats may be needed to get the match. A good paint guy can match and blend the adjacent panel so you don't have any panel to panel color differences.

Talk to the shop and stress that your concerned with the pearl color match, then let them do their job and hopefully you'll be a satisfied customer.

Had a hit n run back in 1995 on my artic white car. You can't tell they repainted the rear quarter panel after 8 years unless you look up very close and see some overspray. This was done at a Ford auto body shop.

I a lady hit my rear driver's side quarter and the body shop did an amazing jobof matching the color. I know that they blended the rear door to get the two as close as possible. I can't tell that the panel was repainted. The shop I took my car to does work on higher end cars and you can tell. They even wash and clean up the car after they painted it.

Look in the sticky for hte TSBs, look for hte one for matching tri stage pearl paint. print it out and take to shop