Morris Minor Owners Club

The welding's done, underneath waxoyled and the interior refitted (it has a "new car" smell ) I've now got to get the MoT and fit new bumpers and....paint the 4 new wings.

I've got a can of spray from BM, and used it to spray the sill finishing rail as a bit of an experiment. It looks a bit different to the rest of the car, lighter. The car has been resprayed at some point and I'm thinking it may be a slightly darker shade of green (it's a '69 four door, they've also put a red rather than green coachline on).

Could it be that the paintwork has just aged? The old paint seems darker, but only slightly. Would T-cut "lighten" the old paint, or just make it shinier?

Not sure what to do, but desperately fighting the urge just to flatten and spray the whole car. Maybe get a paint factors to match the colour?

Andrew

If it has been previously re-sprayed it may have been painted in 2pack. This does seem to come out a shade lighter than celly. If you're going to a paint factors take a bit of old paint (old discarded panel) He should be able to tell you which paint was used. Some paints don't "mix" and you may have to use a sealer primer.

The old paint is darker than the new, but good point about different paints, who knows what it was painted with

I'll just have to take a bit of the wing in with me when I go for paint.

Andrew

I also have a similar problem, I am repairing a scrape on the car. I have applied the final coat (almond green spray paint) but the new paint is slightly darker, is there anyway of getting round this problem.

Thanks in advance
Phil

If it were me I'd spray the edges of the repair taking the new paint over into the older colour thus avoiding a hard line ( doesn't stand out as much) Wait until the paint is hardened (a week) and then a very gentle application of T-Cut may take the new colour down a little.
Was the paint from a touch-up can? these can sometimes turn out to be a bit brighter than that mixed from a paint supplier.

See here

http://mog.myfreeforum.org/about60.html

Mine was from a touch up can, (from BM) and indeed was brighter. I'm going to hack a bit off the old wing to take with me to the paint supplier

Andrew

Re-sprayed round the edge, etc.
What a difference !



Thanks for the help.

Phil

Paint tends to get lighter with age - and as Phil has shown - the new spray can paint comes out darker. One answer is to respray the whole panel - with a very light primer/undercoat of white - which will lighten the final colour coat. And being a complete panel ant colour difference will not be so noticeable anyway.

my car's paint is darker than the can, so using that logic, if I u/c in a dark grey I could darken the final tone.

I think I'm going to get it matched, though, with a bit of the old panel. As soon as I have time