Information on paint for the Spyders

[Pennyrick]

We have a Lava Bronze '12 RT on order for my wife. Rather than buy another 622 trailer to match the new Spyder we decided to have her current blue one painted. The Lava Bronze Spyder isn't here yet but I have been trying to get a paint code so I can get the trailer done before the new machine gets here.

Today I discovered that the Spyders are painted with water-based paint and the body shop that gave me the best price on painting the trailer isn't set up for water based paint. In fact, there is only one shop in our area that is, and they are very expensive. The paint guy tells me that Canada has almost completely eliminated anything but water based paints due to federal environmental regulations.

So, it appears that buying the paint from a dealer isn't going to work for us unless we want to go the expensive route.

Another option is to leave the new roadster with a paint shop for a while and let them try to color match it with a custom mix.

Has anyone had any experience with this approach?

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

I have had pretty good luck with this especially when the the painted parts are not actually touching each other. Most auto parts shops that sell auto paint have a spectrographic ? type device that will analize the paint you have and color match it. They can come very very close to exact. Go and shop around talk to them see if that's how you might want to go. Mike

[tofriendscreek]

Had a fellow employee back into 09, scratching up the frunk.
The paint shop matched the color perfectly.
They match paint colors all the time.
In my case I know they used the water based variety.