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Old 03-11-2015, 11:36 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BuckeyeZ View Post
It's a tri-coat metallic. The metal flake that is added is very difficult to match when the car is not all painted at once. The metal flake will lay differently, especially when the car is painted at the factory with electrostatics. The pearl white is the only Z color like that. They will be able to get close, but it will never match exactly.
Sapphire black is the same process. My wife hit a deer in her Murano Platinum. Local body shop matched it up beautifully. The only part that prevents if from being a perfect match is that their paint job has no orange peel effect like the rest of the car.
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