[OAC_Sparky]

smith21,Apr 1 2006, 03:22 PM Wrote:i work/worked in a body shop..and 25$ for a spray bomb is pretty much a rip off...my store sells them for 19.98 a can, and also, you were doing it the hard way for the paint and for a "near" match..if this was a good auto body paint shop, they would have a scanner which would give you pretty much the exact match..i have a friend of mine who redid his interior with parts off of a less beat up s-10, and he scanned the colours then used vinyl paint, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference enless if you knew he did the job himself..just my 2cents :D
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$19.98 + PST + GST = $22.98
So I may have got burned for a two-ny.

I'm sure that the NAPA had a scanner also. The point was that they have the paint codes. It is an exact match, the only difference at all isn't the colour of paint, but a difference in the "grain" pattern/texture between the OEM A-Pillar and the grain of the Autometer pillar pod.

Most people think it's stock, you can't really tell mine was painted either. Mind you, my car was only a month old when I put the pod in, so the interior wasn't faded at all.

As for other body shops, around here the next cheapest option was buying a pint of plastic paint for $35, and buying my own sprayer (which I don't have yet) .