Halfrauds Colour Match - any good?

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Need to get a can of spray paint made up to match the colour of my car and i'm going to be close to a Halfrauds later of today, is there colour match system any good and does their paint finish nicely?
 
Well the last two touch up kits I have bought have been awful from there. I bought a silver one for the 5 last weekend, took care to match the code and paint name with what I bought at Halfords and the match appears to be nothing like. I now have a large dark grey blotch on my paintwork where once there was just a small blister of rust. Not happy! Next time I will buy the manufacturer kit instead I think..
 
I had them make up a touch up pot for my saxo, seeing as they didn't stock the colour on the shelves. I used their colour cards and took them out to my car to match the exact shade.

Was spot on actually.
 
Actually I want to touch up a slight scuff that is to deep to polish out. Brilliant black... can Halfrauds screw even that up?
 
i have recently painted a new grille rail in schwartz met black for my car, i was very impressed with the colour match on my car. i got the paint from paints4u.com i think.
 
The stuff they actually mix to the colour code whilst you wait is pretty good in my exprience.
 
mattpc said:
I bought a silver one for the 5 last weekend, took care to match the code and paint name with what I bought at Halfords and the match appears to be nothing like. Not happy! Next time I will buy the manufacturer kit instead I think..


Only a few quid from MX5Parts for original Mazda stuff, not worth the risk imho ;)
 
As an (ex) employee of the aforementioned company, I feel I should mention that whilst it is possible to make up a damned good colour match, the computer system containing the 'formulas' (the quantities of each component part of paint) in some cases has multiple slightly different shades for what is the same colour - some suffixed with different letters or numbers, indicating a slight tint in a particular colour direction, supposedly to cater for fading/bleaching, but getting a right match for some colours, especially those which are prone to fade or get bleached in the sun is quite tricky. I recall being asked to mix a Ford colour to which there were 10 slight variations of the same black shade on the computer!

Its nice to have a bit of time to mix it up as well given that its 'mixed' by hand, not by machine as people always seem to think! Some of the formulas require some minute amounts of particular components so to follow it exactly to the nearest gram you're best adding it slowly drop by drop. When I worked in Halfrauds, we always had some customer who needed it mixed in 5 minutes and whilst it can be done, I always preferred to take a bit more care and really mix/stir it thoroughly!
 
I used their light sapphire blue spray on my focus and it was pretty much perfect, better than the ford paint I had. I guess they can be a bit hit and miss though
 
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