Paint match

[charger01]

I  had my car painted two years ago, and Iam to the point it is driving my crazy.  It isnt real noticeable in the pic or to others unless I point it out, but the passenger side door and the passenger side rocker panel are a lighter shade of orange than the rest of the car.  Is it possible to have this resprayed to match, or will it screw up my entire paint job?

[68X426]

I vote to leave it as is. I have no confidence that a match can be made that would meet your expectations. It's just never the same as the original. Unless you just hate it now, how many do-overs can you have 3,4,5 ? until you feel like they got it right?

[charger01]

I dont like your response lol, somebody else?  Its not awful, but its noticeable and drives me crazy looking at it.

[hemi-hampton]

I vote to leave it as is. I have no confidence that a match can be made that would meet your expectations. It's just never the same as the original. Unless you just hate it now, how many do-overs can you have 3,4,5 ? until you feel like they got it right?

Being a Painter I kinda agree. LEON.

[charger01]

not the answers I was hoping for, but I very much appreciate your replies. 

[bill440rt]

Just out of curiousity, but if the car was painted completely then why does the door & rocker not match? 

If you want a better match, then the door & rocker cannot be "panel painted". The only way to "fix" this is to have the door & rocker resprayed, and blend into the fender and quarter. Of course, there's no break-off point on the quarter, so now the painter will be going up over the roof and down the other side. You'll essentially be respraying 80% of the car. 

Or, put the decals, door handle, and trim on. I'll bet it'll be less noticeable when you do. It's funny how those things trick the eye.

[Silver R/T]

You would have to blend into fender and quarter panel. You will never get it 100% same color, it will be blended/faded into an adjacent panel far enough so that it fools your eye to thinking it's all same color.

[charger01]

The car was painted apart and looks like the door is just a shade off. As for the rocker. It looks thin and not even shiny, probably low point on and passed over with the paint gun once.

[JB400]

The door I think I'd leave alone.  From the pic, I can't tell the diff.  The rocker on the other hand, I would have to agree that it just needs another coat of paint.  Being the car was painted disassembled, the parts were painted with different batches of paint.  Maybe your painter can paint the rocker and make everything look right.

[Mike DC]

IMHO there is no way to really call it without seeing the mismatch in person.  Some mismatches are minor and others are obvious enough that a respray would be a decent idea.  But photography isn't reliable enough for the rest of us to get a sense of how different the panels are.  Some pictures can make obvious differences disappear, other pics can accentuate differences that the naked eye hardly notices in real life.

[A383Wing]

probably not gonna matter once you get the numbers on the door

[bill440rt]

probably not gonna matter once you get the numbers on the door

That's what I'm thinking, too. 

From the picture that was posted I can definitely see a color difference between the two panels. And no, I don't think that's a photography glitch.
Putting the rest of the trim & stuff on will lessen the effect to some extent.
And for the rocker, have you thought about a set of repro rocker moldings? It's just a thought, and certainly cheaper and less labor intensive than having 3/4 of the car repainted. 

[hemi-hampton]

The car was painted apart and looks like the door is just a shade off. As for the rocker. It looks thin and not even shiny, probably low point on and passed over with the paint gun once.

I always paint my car all together & don't get tape lines in jambs. That way outside is allways even & no mismatch. When you do apart, &/or on different days & different times,with different temps & humidity & viscocity & gun distance & gun adjustments, ect, ect all this can give you a mismatch, even with same batch of paint. Sometimes it works & sometimes it don't but it's like playing Russian Roulette in my opinions LEON.

[Brock Lee]

The orange paint sucks to touch up. You may even get it close now and then because the paints are different batches and ages have them fade differently and end up looking different down the road.