Anybody know if it's ture that PPW is very hard to paint?
I am going to have a fiber glass kit for the Z and the paint shop said that the PPW is a pearl metallic paint, so it's impossible to match exactly to the factory paint. So after the kit has be painted and install, you will notice the kit's PPW a bit different from the body's paint. Also paint shop said that fiber glass absorb paint differently, therefore the color difference....
Is it true?

 

WEll....all of the Z color;s have a Metallic look to them---its weird...but as long as they use a really good paint--and Prime the surface---it will match pretty well---now if the car was say 2 years old...then matching the color gets harder...but I have PPW as well...and they damn well better match my **** up--**BY the way** I mix paint for a living so...I can see the real deal of a finish and tell ya whats up!

Good luck...lets us know how it goes!

 

maybe you can take it to a certified Nissan dealership and see if they can paint it for you or have their body shop paint it for you. just a suggestion.

 

Kaikai,
I would take it to another body shop until I found one that would match and stand behind the match.

Too bad you are not in Austin. I had a White Pearl Solora that had damage on both quarter panels. The body shop matched the color very well. You could not tell where the damage area was and where the old (2 year old) paint started. This Solora was fixed at a Buick body shop, co-worker pointed me in the direction.

The Toyota Pearl White is similar to PPW. Keep on looking and ask around town. Toyota and Infiniti both have this type of white finish ask them to see who they use to fix their cars.

 

I own a PPW and have had to have the quarter panel painted.
!!!!!!!!BEWARE!!!!!!!!

Yes I am a little **** about the paint on my car but I didn't buy a two-tone, even if I am the only one that noticed.

First I bought an aftermarket (Nissan Style) spoiler. It is painted QX1 like the color code calls for. It is a little different color. Noticible on a very sunny day to me.

While I was having the spoiler installed at the Nissan Dealer the person that drove it around the building had some guy back into him and damaged my right quarter panel.
The body shop that the dealer uses acting like they could handle it so I left it there. One week went by and they couldn't match the paint. They kept saying it wasn't QX1 but that Nissan had changed the paint.
I drove the car for 2 weeks with the paint wrong until they could get the code (which by the way IS QX1. I had to involve NNA and Dupont Paint Company. When they re-painted the car they couldn't get it right and kept it another full week.
It took the dumb a$$e$ 4 weeks to get it right.

I would insist on checkin the test panels YOUSELF before they decide to paint. Get it in writing that they will match the paint PERFECTLY and will not require "feathering the paint into other body pieces. In my quest I spoke with several people in the business that said "you should NEVER have to feather PEARL into other parts".

GOOD LUCK
Clayton

ps: here is a thread (unansewered) I posted in February when I believed the body shop that it was Dupont's fault. Should have smelled a rat then. THREAD

 

Was your spoiler ALL from the factory or did you order it painted from someone else---my Replica NIssan SPoiler from spoilerdepot.com is a little whiter then my car---sometimes you can't tell but others you can---BIGTIME---but I will have the paint shop that does my stuff---they will get it right or it will take them 4 weeks as well!!! My ***** gotta match---Not too big of a deal on my Factory Spoiler(its so small)--but on a front bumper----its gotta match!

 

Yep, front bumper is where I worried the most. If the color couldn't be matched, everyone will notice since it's such a big area.