Color code variations

Nowadays, when paints develop quickly and the competition in the field is fierce. Car manufacturers want to stand out from the crowd, with the finest colors. Unfortunately, this makes the life of a painter challenging.

You've probably seen when the door or fender of a passing car is darker than the last car. This is usually because the car's color code variation is wrong. Although the color code is announced in the car, nothing is mentioned about the variation. Unfortunately, the variation is often noticed as wrong when the part has been painted and installed. Even we do not know, despite our long experience, which variation is correct based on the color code alone. Variations can only be determined by comparing the color model with the object to be painted!

Paint factories work hard to match the colors of the paint to the cars. Each manufacturer has so-called basic formula. Based on experience, the basic formulas of our surface colors match your vehicle with about 90% certainty. But a variation of mistakes is also possible, unfortunately. With this large percentage, we always choose the basic formula as a variation for the customer. The customer can, at his own discretion and willingness, check the variation before ordering. Then he can send us a small sample of the vehicle, e.g. a washer flap or a fuel filler flap.

Where do the variations come from?

There is a slightly disputed fact about the birth of the variation. We have seen a video from a car factory where robots first paint x number of red cars and then the same robots paint x number of silver cars. Thus, the first batch of silver cars are slightly reddish. This gives rise to the variation R, i.e. red. And this is repeated for different colors, but the pattern is the same.