Any one know of a site that you can look at color chips and not buy the charts? I've been looking for a few weeks and the only thing I can find are places to buy color charts. I don't know what year the color I'm looking for was.......so I need to look at the colors til I find the one I'm looking for. HELP!...HELP!...HELP... OK, I feel better. Thanks for any help.
Color chips are not the best thing to look at online , your local paint store will have paint books that you. Can look at free
The color will look different on different computers and if you printed the chart it would be a different shade color that was on your monitor.
Here you go ............ http://autocolorlibrary.com/ as said before, monitors will of course vary colors.
Thanks everyone. I know what your talking about. I kind of know what I'm looking for, just need a place to start. Thanks again, Jeff
Some places will send you a book of chips for a fee when you are trying to choose or match a color. When you mail the chip book back they will refund the fee. Pretty painless.
It helps to look at them in natural light outside sometimes also. When we were deciding for my car our painter took the chips into the sun to show me. When we narrowed it down he sprayed some test panels to look at outside. Took us 10 of the 11 months it was in the shop then we went back to my original choice Grabber blue anyhow.
Update on paint chips. A friend of mine is a painter. so I went to his shop to look at some paint chips. You know, try to narrow it down to the color that is just right. After 3-4 hours of looking at books, fans, files, I learned one thing....I have very expensive taste. Every thing that I liked is 3 stage paints. They are amazing colors and I did narrow it down to 3 colors ......I think. Thanks for everyone's help. Jeff
One thing to keep in mind is future repairs/touch ups. How hard will it be to get a good match if something happens? 3 stage/pearls etc complicate things. This was one of the many reasons we stuck with grabber Blue on mine. I knew I would be driving it a lot. Being a solid color and in urethane it works well for touch ups etc. Trust me I've already done a few. One being the lower half of quarter behind the wheel. Got hit with debris. Fixed,painted, wet sanded and completely invisible. Even chips fix nicely with touch up with hardener. Wet sand, polish and gone. Its worked out well for me. Just some more info to complicate your decision. LOL.
Yeah, my friend told me the same things. I told him it was not my problem....he's the painter. lol All kidding aside, he is going to look for a color that is just 2 stage. Now that he has a idea of what I'm looking for. But WOW those 3 stage colors are amazing.
