I bought a body kit last week and it arived today.. Nissan dealer one says the PPW is NOT pearl and the body shop i took it to said it was... what about you guys? did you have any trouble with this?

 

I am taking mine to get my door repainted and they listed the paint as pearl white...

 

Yeah, it definately has pearl in it.

 

the paint on our cars is 3 layers... base, top coat of white, and then a pearl coat... so yes... its pearl white.. hell even the touch up paint kit comes with 2 cans... one white, and one with the pearl in it..

 

u can clearly see the pearl on the PPW! thats why its creamy white at the sun..and brighter white at nite..its DIFFENEITLY has PEARL! that dude must be color blind at the nissan dealership...

 

Don't be concerned about the name of the color. Call it whatever you would like. The paint code is important. Its on the metal plate under the hood.

 

thats exactly what i was thinking..... thanks guys guess ill plan to spend a grand to paint my kit haha

 

What's the difference. It doesnt mater because paint works by a specific code of alfanumeric characters. If they think is pearl or not, that should not impact the color output of the body kit.

 

Sorry Davidv. Didn't see your post, guess I repeated the message.

 

well they were trying to tell me that painting pearl would be 3 times more expensive and the doubted that nissan would use that as a factory color.... what little did he know...

 

I had my car painted about four times now. It's a three stage paint. the pearl is added after the white coat, then the clear goes on the pearl coat. the traick is to try to get the right amount of pearl mixed, because you don't want to have to much pearl or not enough pearl.

My paint guy does a great job matching up the paint.

 

if only i could find a decent paint guy around here, seems everyone wants to do a maaco job..

 

The paint code is QX1. It is definitely pearl. Good luck....

 

qx1 it is.... ima drive around tomarrow and get quotes.. what kind of numbers should i be looking at?

(just a front bumper that needs no prep)

its FRP so it should be like painting an oem one.