I recently bought the spray paint to touch up my Pearl White 99' Max. Its tricoat so i've been warned about it being hard to match. In my ignorance I spray painted a small part and my to result it didn't match and it looks bad. Im going to try applying different coats on a piece of metal or plastic (which is what Ive should've done first) to see how many coats of each to make it blend right. But, I'd like to know if any of you have already tried that and now how many coats to apply to get White Pearl paint match.

 

Depends where you go. You're gonna have to get two different stages. (3 including the clear) you can't use one can that includes all stages. Anyways. I have a can of base, can of pearl, and a can of clear. Mine matched up almost perfect. With only a few coats

 

Don't bother. Chances are it'll never match.

 

I have the '98 Artic White (I think they changed the name). I bought the original paint QNO, and was warned by the parts guy, this is the base coat, they don't make the second coat, so it will not match. Do you still want it? I got it and had to verify for myself it wouldn't match. It didn't.

My wife's car is also a tri-coat GM and they sell both coats in touch up bottles--it makes a world of difference. Sometimes, the chip is only the top coat, so you only use the tint coat. If it's down to metal, you use the base and tint....fyi....

 

^qn0 at qt1 are different colors or pearl white

 

Mine is actually QT1. I Bought the primer, base coat, mid coat, and clear coat. The first try I didn't get it to match but, Im gonna try different coats on a piece of plastic or metal to see how may it takes to match. If not I could take it to a shop and see how much would it take to paint it.

 

its called a let down panel. you wanna do atleast 3 different coats and mask the paper off as such. even body shops need to do it in order to see how many coats of midcoat were applied.

spray whole paper with base.
divide paper into 3 sections.
mask off all but one section. spray midcoat.
mask off less of the paper, two sections revealed, spray midcoat
dont mask anything, spray again.

you will then see the different levels of coverage one after the other.

 

I WAS WAITING FOR GGENIUS to rear up and throw down here.

 

and i actually mean a posterboard type paper, or metal if youve got some spare. regular absorbent paper will yield pretty unreliable results.