looking for car in junkyard...

[BonzoGonzo]

looking for a dark green avy. looking for 2 REAL TOYOTA fenders (not floppy aftermarket garbage) and maybe a front bumper cover. will travel to get if price is reasonable.

anybody know?

[fourwheeler]

I would try car-parts.com. call and ask on colors. can search near you.

[fourwheeler]

Found 1 in Houston and 2 in the Dallas area, green in color. Just looked for the right. Good luck!

[Zembonez]

Sadly... even if you buy the right color, there is a very good chance that they will not match. Production runs of car color normally have have a range of about a dozen shades. Over time, the same color is slightly different, but we don't notice because the entire vehicle is painted at once.

Anytime a shop paints a panel, they tint the color to match as closely as possible and then blend into the adjacent panel to hide any color differential. A good painter can make it appear seamless.

[BonzoGonzo]

Originally Posted by Zembonez

Sadly... even if you buy the right color, there is a very good chance that they will not match. Production runs of car color normally have have a range of about a dozen shades. Over time, the same color is slightly different, but we don't notice because the entire vehicle is painted at once.

Anytime a shop paints a panel, they tint the color to match as closely as possible and then blend into the adjacent panel to hide any color differential. A good painter can make it appear seamless.

yeah. i'm a fair mechanic but i know less than nothing about body/paint...

my car is dark, dark green. iky color. now i have 2 original toyota fenders that are burgundy/red. i have a new front bumper cover. i'm getting outrageous prices (aka $400) to paint them and the hood off the car and when i say i want a good job done, they say they don't want to do it at all! i'm at a loss...

the hood on my avy - you can drive the car by the reflection in it, no problem. they want to put dimpled paint on it, and call it a job. wtf? i don't get it...

i already have like, $7-8000 in parts (and my work) in this 14 year old car. 2X what i could ever get for it, even if you count the work as without dollar value. i'm not rich. i'm a poor guy who can not afford a nice car, trying to drive a nice car anyway - lol

what should i do?

[fourwheeler]

$400 sounds like a cheap, quick, paint job. A good paint job might be $1000-2000. A painter will have a fair amount of prep work before painting and will then feather the paint to the other areas which don't need to be painted. Clear coat should applied. The paint should then be wet sanded and then buffed. I'm no expert, just dabbled a bit in the process. This would be the better method in my opinion than trying to buy green fenders and a hood and even then the paint wouldn't match.