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Old 03-22-2011, 10:42 AM   #6
Russell James


 
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Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
Your seeing the difference in assembly process. All cars are painted with only the sheet metal installed. The fascias and other plastic/fiberglass/rubber pieces are added after paint. The fascias are painted at another facility and shipped to the assembly plant. It is impossible to have perfect paint match with these parts.
It is possible to perfectly match. They call it tuning the color in. If they don't spend the time and $$$ to get it right, you wind up with a piss poor match.

Many of the Camaro front fascia colors are a kinda match. I'd give that paint engineer a C- for a grade.
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