Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:18:09 -0500
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Westfalia Light Grey Paint Available M6062A
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It will not be exact. No two paints ever are, and even having the paint spectroscopically read at the time needed does not mean necessarily that it will match to everyone's eye. BTDT, though not with the camper cabinets. I have thought I could "touch up" or paint just one wall in a room by spectroscopic matching. Nope.
Recently, my house was seriously damaged by hail. The insurance company said it would pay for replacing all the damaged sections of siding and the garage door, and for painting everything on the front of the house and the west end where the damage was, including all contiguous parts, but not the east end or the back of the house, because there was no damage there. When the painters matched the paint spectroscopically at Sherwin Williams, then started painting, it was clear that it did not match. Sherwin Williams tried two more times. Then we went back to the insurance company and said the whole house would have to be painted. The insurance assessor had to come back and redo his work, then he had to agree, then the company had to agree. Finally worked out, and the company paid to paint the whole house.
Color matching does not always work out.
mcneely
---- Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I had the paint code for the light grey on the Westfalia cabinetry
> 86-91 spectroscopically examined (if I have written it right) and
> determined to be the following color: M6062A
>
> With that code, you should be able to match the paint. If you want to
> order just the paint, I arranged to have it added to the 86-91
> Vanagon section of www.paintscratch.com and you can order it there
> using their search methodology in which you search by vehicle (YEAR
> VW VANAGON) and then it shows you color choices and they call it
> "Light Grey Cabinetry (Interior)".
>
> Note that GoWesty also sells this paint in the form of laminate
> panels here:
> <http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4336>http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4336
> under their part number GVW-S .
>
> Note that this paint is the light color paint that is on the walls
> and not the dark accent color that is on the molding strips and
> cabinet handles. I think the darker grey paint is available in the
> Rustoleum Professional cans of paint commonly stocked at hardware stores.
>
> I had my own paint mixed at Sherman Williams, so I did not test the
> paintscratch.com variety, but it should be very close if not exact.
>
>
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> Derek Drew
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David McNeely
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