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All these clean G's are making me jealous. I unfortunately had a water line burst in the slab of my house a week and a half ago, so my garage is currently torn apart during the piping reroute. And the worst part is that my car has been sitting outside for the past couple of weeks and is now absolutely filthy. I might just have to go home early and wash it tonight, just so I can keep up with the rest of you!
Originally Posted by Rochester
IDK about that, lobuzz311. 100% match is a difficult thing to insist on, particularly comparing painted plastic to painted bumper skins to painted sheet metal. I say that in order to maintain my sanity, because 3-stage White cars almost never match everywhere after the car ages. Doors look different than the side-sills which look different from the bumpers and so on.
At some point you have to accept that perfection is the enemy of the good.
I do have to agree with John on this one. The multistage paints these days are almost impossible for any body shop to match perfectly without fading the paint into other panels. Even the best shops (and I've been to two of the best in the L.A. area that regularly do SEMA vehicles) will tell you that even the slightest variance in the application of one of the coats can vary the look of the paint and if you repaint a single panel it will hardly ever match the adjacent panels. Like Rochester's Midnight White, my Ivory Pearl paint is a 3-stage application each stage has to be applied in the exact amount as the factory paint in order to get an identical match and the guys painting my car didn't paint the car from the factory, so what they will always suggest is that you fade the paint into the adjacent panel so you can't see any line of delineation between the new and the old paint. This technique has worked great with my car on a couple of different occasions.
Incidentally, do you know what that black box is that's adjacent to your driver's side intake filter? My car doesn't have that.
I believe it's for the factory alarm system. I didn't even know that my car had it until I tripped it putting my bumper on after installing my gen 3 intakes.
I believe it's for the factory alarm system. I didn't even know that my car had it until I tripped it putting my bumper on after installing my gen 3 intakes.Attachment 119898Attachment 119897
Very true sir! I still don't know what the parameters of this alarm are (i.e. is it shock sensor based or whatever). That being said, I'm just going to leave it because it's outta sight 99.9% of the time.
Looking good sir! The beauty of the KAD color is that cars come out looking clean in pics whether they are or not. Side note, I've never been a fan of the vinyl wrapped diffuser. A better option is an actual diffuser like Carbon Signal or Autokits-X. But that's just me! Vinyl wrapping the chrome trim on the decklid looks good! I did that before my CF spoiler so the chrome wouldn't show through.
Looking good sir! The beauty of the KAD color is that cars come out looking clean in pics whether they are or not. Side note, I've never been a fan of the vinyl wrapped diffuser. A better option is an actual diffuser like Carbon Signal or Autokits-X. But that's just me! Vinyl wrapping the chrome trim on the decklid looks good! I did that before my CF spoiler so the chrome wouldn't show through.
I agree an actual diffuser looks better. That will probably come next year, as I have already put in so much money this year.... This vinyl will do for now
04-18-2016, 06:01 PM
I might just have to go home early and wash it tonight, just so I can keep up with the rest of you! 
