Wheel Paint

[ambermarine]

The nightmare scenario as arrived ,I have just been trying to get a colour match for the wheels on my Mark 4 I acquired two years ago.The centre cap lacquer lifted on what were pristine just refurbished wheels when I got it .Apart from that the wheels are in the same condition as when I bought it.

it seems that when the wheel refurbishers do the wheels they just mix up a silver that is as near to the colour that is there .

I sent the cap off to a paint supplier to be spectomertered analysed and they say it will not read it as silver paint as that much metal in it the wavelength reading is all messed up .So they can't match the paint with a computered mix all they can do is guess at it.

The other aspect of this is that if the wheels are done properly the paint is baked on but the centre caps are made of plastic so that paint as to be sprayed cold hence lifted lacquer because of the possible time lapse between lacquer and the silver paint.

On my Mark 1 The clown of a company that refurbed those wheels refused to spray the centre caps after he had taken the job on and done the wheels and could'nt give me a colour code for the paint he used on the wheels .I ended up finding a Aerosol that was as near as we could get.

Why the hell don't Lexus give a colour code for the wheels so we can keep to a set regime and illiminate this hit and miss scenario .At this time I am trying to find out from the previous owner where he had the wheels done and hope they kept some records but I am not betting the farm on it.