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How to Blend automotive paint to match an existing color

Blending automotive paint on a vehicle panel.

If you're thinking about making some minor paint repairs on your vehicle, getting that paint to match the color on your car can be a difficult task. This video will help you out by showing you how to blend your automotive paint to match the existing color.

This is the process of spraying new paint and blending it into the old color to produce a color match. Ideally, you want to mix a color that is a blendable match. However, in this video we are mixing a color that is too dark, which will help us demonstrate the concept of a blend. Perhaps, you want to do a fade job of fading one color into another color! You could use this technique or tip to achieve that result.

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