where to get a good Guards Red aerosol spray paint

HUBBA.HUBBA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:30 pm

Sprayed a couple of areas yesterday and no suprise the colour didn't quite exactly match the older paint. I'll have to paint wholes panels at a time, which I have no problem with. Only that the paint I got made up at halfords is not as deep as the original paint. Does anyone know where to get a decent colour from?

Eltel · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:01 pm

Take your car or a part of your car to your local bodyshop paint suppliers and have them match a colour for you and put it in a can,we have about 10 different shades of guards red that we can mix at work, my car is a 1986 model yet the best match we found was from 1983 model year and as you have stated the paintwork is quite old and faded a bit now and you will never get a good match painting edge to edge you generally have to blend into an adjoining panel to get the best results.

clinchy993 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:29 am

Paints4U Good match, I have had Guards and Ocean Blue from them

But Guards is awkward as there are many shades so you may have to experiment with different colour primer to get a match

HUBBA.HUBBA · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:53 pm

clinchy993 wrote:

Paints4U Good match, I have had Guards and Ocean Blue from them

But Guards is awkward as there are many shades so you may have to experiment with different colour primer to get a match

Thanks for that. Just ordered a can to test

HUBBA.HUBBA · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:56 pm

Eltel wrote:

Take your car or a part of your car to your local bodyshop paint suppliers and have them match a colour for you and put it in a can,we have about 10 different shades of guards red that we can mix at work, my car is a 1986 model yet the best match we found was from 1983 model year and as you have stated the paintwork is quite old and faded a bit now and you will never get a good match painting edge to edge you generally have to blend into an adjoining panel to get the best results.

Not that fussed about matching the old paint as I'll eventually do every panel. More that I want the next can of paint to match the proceeding one.

Waylander · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:34 pm

buy a lot of cans with the same batch number

AlpineTurbo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2015 7:15 pm

Go to a local paintshop with the car or a body panel and see if they can match it up ; I know that my local place can \

http://www.ibegin.com/directory/uk/warw ... store-ltd/

HUBBA.HUBBA · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2015 1:25 pm

HUBBA.HUBBA wrote:

clinchy993 wrote:

Paints4U Good match, I have had Guards and Ocean Blue from them

But Guards is awkward as there are many shades so you may have to experiment with different colour primer to get a match

Thanks for that. Just ordered a can to test

Yep, now tried it and that's the one for me. just ordered 8 more cans so they are the same batch.

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