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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2013, 06:38:14 pm »
Though my DV was bad, yours is well f*cked. Mine felt like a new car, bet yours fells like a rocket now.  :pomppomp:
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2013, 09:25:48 pm »
Quote from: GTI-Ross on March 09, 2013, 06:38:14 pm
Though my DV was bad, yours is well f*cked. Mine felt like a new car, bet yours fells like a rocket now.  :pomppomp:

God yeah it was insane! Much nicer to drive now.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2013, 08:49:16 am »
So I got in contact with the guy who painted the parts on my car as they're not the right colour. I thought I would see if I could live with it, but a couple weeks on and with many comments from people about it, I can't. He seemed annoyed at me for bringing it up. The quality of the work is great, but the colour is just wrong... He said for me to take the car in this week... to do what I don't know, but I hope it can be sorted.

The colour is more pink than red, however it is hard to get a picture that shows this off.


I know matching colours can be hard, but he said the car had some paint work done before, not that I can tell as it all matches.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2013, 01:31:56 pm »
i think Tr is going to be the worst colour to match.
you'd have thought someone would have invented some techy light reflection thingy, that could print out the exact RGB colour of the paint on the car, and then automatically mix it up...
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2013, 01:44:39 pm »
Quote from: paulw123 on March 18, 2013, 01:31:56 pm
i think Tr is going to be the worst colour to match.
you'd have thought someone would have invented some techy light reflection thingy, that could print out the exact RGB colour of the paint on the car, and then automatically mix it up...

I heard Halfords do that, how true that is I don't know. Anyway, after a short discussion he gave me the colour chips and told me to match it, I found one that is almost exact and he agreed to respray. I wasn't expecting that, so I would say great service. He also said he hates Red.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2013, 02:56:37 pm »
yea I had some issue's with respray of parts in red.  Firstly I got a key mark re sprayed and although the colour match was spot on there was a different undercoat so when the sun shone on it it suddenly went another colour cos you could almost see through the paint.  They re did it for me and now the whole panel for me and now the shade of red is slightly out!

Nice car btw.  Similar colour wheels to mine!!
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2013, 03:36:40 pm »
Quote from: arthur on March 18, 2013, 02:56:37 pm
yea I had some issue's with respray of parts in red.  Firstly I got a key mark re sprayed and although the colour match was spot on there was a different undercoat so when the sun shone on it it suddenly went another colour cos you could almost see through the paint.  They re did it for me and now the whole panel for me and now the shade of red is slightly out!

Nice car btw.  Similar colour wheels to mine!!

God paint is a pain in the arse. I have a key mark in there, but I'm gonna save that for when I go about getting bits fixed or a full respray...

Thanks! Though there are lots of marks you can't see in the images...
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2013, 03:46:33 pm »
I imagine is hard to match the paint exact as the top part of the bumper is 7 years old now. Paint fads, changes over time. I know when I had my Mk4 golf their were 7 different shades of the paint code LA7W (Reflex Silver). Might be the same with TR.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2013, 06:25:39 pm »
Quote from: Simon_2.0t on March 18, 2013, 03:46:33 pm
I imagine is hard to match the paint exact as the top part of the bumper is 7 years old now. Paint fads, changes over time. I know when I had my Mk4 golf their were 7 different shades of the paint code LA7W (Reflex Silver). Might be the same with TR.

There are 11/12 shades of Tornado Red, so I am told... I know it is hard to match as it weathers and fades, but you can get close. The colour he painted it was a bit too far off for my liking, and he even agreed it looked off. In an ideal world I'd have repainted the whole car, but I don't have that kinda money... I know paint is not an easy business, but I'm glad he was willing to sort it out. Not many places would do that.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #24 on: March 19, 2013, 02:30:33 pm »
Wow, 11 shades!!

Sounds like he will give it another go for you. Worth getting the whole rear bumper done? Maybe he could blend it in then.

Looking to get my plastics colour coded soon.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2013, 03:25:51 pm »
Quote from: Simon_2.0t on March 19, 2013, 02:30:33 pm
Wow, 11 shades!!

Sounds like he will give it another go for you. Worth getting the whole rear bumper done? Maybe he could blend it in then.

Looking to get my plastics colour coded soon.

He said that if I were to get the bumper done at the same time it's another £150, and I don't have that... I'll just get the colour chip code off of him for future reference.
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2013, 06:19:53 pm »
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2013, 06:25:13 pm »
looks Sweet Dude
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2013, 06:36:49 pm »
Quote from: LukePraoline on March 27, 2013, 06:25:13 pm
looks Sweet Dude

Thanks! I still have a long list of things I want to do though... haha
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Re: My Tornado Red GTi (Pic Heavy)
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2013, 09:07:20 pm »
Looking good mate looks way beta colour coded  :smiley:
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