Any infernos with mismatching paint?

Going off the MGM mismatched paint thread and asking the rest of the inferno owners.

My front bumper cover looks a little off compared to the rest of the car. IT's a little more lighter orange. I noticed it in person and it's noticeable in pictures. I couldn't seem to find anyone else with the same issue in the inferno thread. Also, this side of the bumper is slightly misaligned compared to the left.

There was a "hold up" for a few days, delaying my delivery. Possibly repainted or sourced a bumper from another inferno?

 

not me, but yea....hard to miss. Good excuse for a nice ARB plate bumper.

 

Could be a repair but also could be one is plastic while the other is metal. Maybe it looks a little different since it's different material???? I'm just guessing. Has anybody else noticed this? I've seen a few second gens when I had mine where the color matched portion of the sport grill looked like a different shade from the hood on certain colors. I just assumed because one was plastic while the other was metal.

 

That's what I'm guessing. But if that's the case, all inferno owners should have a slightly mismatched bumper. I'd like to see if anyone else has this issue.

 

That's normal for a metallic paint.

 

Different surfaces you'll notice this on almost any non-highline vehicle in colors that are hard to blend (pearl whites are the worst. Go look at any Altima/Camry/Accord/Fusion etc etc etc in pearl white and you'll see it doesn't match)

Bumper is plastic, fender is metal. Even if you paint them at the exact same time with the exact same paint they'll end up looking different because paint cures differently on plastic than it does on metal.

High end cars account for that and actually use a slightly different shade of paint on the bumpers that ends up curing to look more correct. But I used to sell BMWs and the lower models like 2 and 3 series still fuck up the bumper matching.... even on a $50k car

 

I have an Inferno and its the same story. They all have "orange peel" as well in all the colors, modern paint just sucks

I've noticed since the industry moved to integrated clear coat paint on lower end cars has gone to crap be it Honda, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, ALL of them suck now, some of them always did, but now its ALL of them

 

Hey, that's what I like about the Inferno.... It looks different from diff. angles and in diff. lighting .... !!

That's why it's THE BEST colour for 2016... if you don't believe me, just google it..!!

 

Another problem with a 3rd Gen... Who'd a thunk?

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But seriously, you're truck looks great. If I had overanalyzed and fretted over my truck with it's originally misaligned box, loose fender, rattling seat, tiny nick in paint, misaligned bumper, and generally little pita's here and there that I had to accept and fix, I'd have gone nuts.

Fix, tweak, learn about, and enjoy your new truck!

 

Yeah my white one has mismatch too. Doesn't bother me much.

 

This is the answer

Go look at any car on any lot, the bumpers do not match 100% they are a different material, painted off the car in a completely different area.
Rocker moldings, grilles, Mirrors ..all the same thing. Look hard enough and you can see it

 

Not a body shop person, but pretty sure the bumpers have a flexible additive in the paint to allow the paint to flex with the plastic. Likely impacts the color.

And I wonder if part of this issue is the mandate to water based paints by or gov'ment.

 

I noticed it right away on the fender flares (i have a sport)

 

The flex additive is only meant to flex for a short period of time to facilitate the installation process, it does not flex forever. If you paint the bumper on the vehicle you don't need it. $.02

 

The reason white pearls and white metallic paints are hard to match is not the material it's being applied to but rather the process. Those colors are Tri Coat Colors and not the simple base/clear coat 2 stage paints. First, they require the white base color, second, the pearl or metallic base which is transparent and applied over the white base, third the clear coat. Shops come close but not exact. Colors will look the same no matter what material it is applied to so long as the primer it is being applied over is the same color. If you apply color over a black primer vs a white primer it will shade differently and not match possibly.The reason the Inferno does not match is because it is probably from a diffrent batch of paint. Curing has nothing to do with color matching. $.02

 

My first color choice was Inferno, but when I saw it at the local dealership with the same mismatched bumper, I decided to order a 2017 in Ouicksand.

 

This is true my brother in law owns a body shop and he was telling me how ge started printing out small expection pamphlets for people with metallic colors. He said even if the paint was from the same paint can, out of the same spray gun, at the same pressure, in the same paint booth, at the same angle, and at the same atmospheric temperature. The paint would still look different with out blending because the stars, planets, and moons didn't align the same at that moment. What a pain

 

I'd be willing to bet the bumpers are brought to Toyota already painted. So there will be a variation with pretty much all plastic items. Bumpers side trim and painted door handles.

 

Most cars are like this but not necessarily from the material itself being being different but from what they need to do to the paint to have it stick to the different material. They use the same paint but they need to add a adhesive to the paint to make it stick better. Also they need to add a flex agent to the paint for the plastic pieces as well because the plastic parts move a lot.

 

I've literally watched my bodyshop guys respray a front end with the SAME batch of paint, at the same time, with the same primer.... and the fenders and bumper still turned out differently. They explained it to me as the way it cures on different material, so I'm curious in that case what the other explanation is??? I see it happen everyday I work at a dealer with a bodyshop on site, so do my guys just suck at their job?? Or is there another reason other than "different batch"?? Because I've sent cars out to other bodyshops as well and same story, bumper never matches the fender if you look closely enough.

I think you'll never get a bumper and fender to match perfectly even with the "same batch", I've literally watched paint dry myself and turn out differently.

Edit: sorry if I'm coming off as a dick I'm just genuinely curious to know if I've had it wrong this whole time, as I've been passing on that info for years, I don't mind being wrong but if I am I want to know so I can start giving people the correct answer

Maybe some else with bodyshop experience can chime in?