TECHNICAL SERVICE CENTER VEHICLE 5 VIAL MAPFRE TESTING AND SECURITY

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Color adjustment processes
The color bias suffered by vehicles can occur during manufacture or as a result
of weather conditions. The need to adjust the color of a vehicle requires a meth
odology to speed and reliability to the process of color reproduction. Paint man
ufacturers are responding to this need with various alternatives, among the curr
ent cards are color variations or lozenges.
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The exact reproduction of the color of a car often involves the adjustment of co
lor formulas that the manufac-
Paint singing provides. On the difficulty of this process of correction, there w
ere several different
methodologies and new products that facilitate this.
Description of equipment
The traditional method for color matching in the repair of a vehicle includes th
e following steps: 4th. Locate on microfiche specific color formulation. 7. Prep
are a quantity of color, with full regard to the formulation chosen. 8. Catalyzi
ng and dilute a small amount of paint to apply on a test tube. This case is part
icularly important when the life of the mixture ready for use is critical.
1. Locate the identification code of the paint on the nameplate located on the v
ehicle.
Vehicle Identification Plate
Search formulation microfiche
2. Polishing an area near the vehicle to be painted, to really appreciate the co
lor. 3rd. Identify the reference color in the listings and microfiche provided b
y paint manufacturers.
5. Select the catalog of the corresponding color tablets and compare it with the
color of the vehicle.
9th. Painting a probe, following the manufacturer's instructions regarding the p
roducts, processes and parameters (air pressure, fan, nozzle, piezapistola dista
nce, time of evaporation, etc.). And under the same conditions in which to make
the painted the vehicle.
Catalyzed and diluted
Color Chart Catalogue
6 º. Prepare the color starting with the first formulation of the microfiche. Th
e following formulations are alterations, called variants.
Painted in a test tube
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10 º. Observe the drying time needed before comparing as many colors vary during
this time. 11th. Compare the specimen obtained with the color of the vehicle in
the area previously prepared for it.
Comparison of test with the vehicle
12. Adjust the color of the specimen, if it does not correspond to the vehicle,
or prepare a new variant, which may be already made. All these steps are carried
out considering the manufacturer's instructions, the influence of application p
arameters and the basic color adjustment.
Catalog of variants with pills
An important aid to this process are the tablets of colors, corresponding to var
iants made in microfiche. They provide a great saving of time in choosing the co
lor, since it is not required necessarily the standard color, as it directly par
t of the vehicle compared with the existing pads, including variants. We choose
the most appropriate and sets the color, depending on formulation.
Variants Pads
Catalog of variants with pills
Both the pills with standard colors such as variations have the same limitation:
the colors that are seen in them are made of printing ink, which can be approxi
mated to those found in the microfiche made for the products of the paint manufa
cturer, but in some cases, offer a high accuracy. To avoid this, the paint manuf
acturers offer color tablets spray applied and painted with the same products as
in the painting process. The color matching method using color pellets involves
the following steps: 1. Polishing an area of the vehicle to assess the current
color. 2. Select the appropriate pills and compared with the vehicle, finally ch
oosing one.
Color pads applied to gun
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3rd. Make this paint code on a formula, with the corresponding microfiche. 4. If
the color of the chosen card does not correspond exactly to the vehicle, the fo
rmula should be tweaked to be prepared.
Formulation of the color information of the tablet
Pills comparison with the vehicle spray
Comparison of different methods
Traditional method (Letter of colors) color pads applied to gun
Variants Pads
Find the color code
Find the color code
Find the color bar of checking the color of the vehicle
Compare the color of the vehicle with the pill
Compare the color of the vehicle with color pads (standard and variants) and cho
ose the most suitable paint the piece chosen formulation
Prepare the color chosen by the formula
Paint the piece with the wording chosen
Deciding whether to amend and adjust color
How to Observe a color
• Clean the areas to be watched. • Illuminate the area properly, without making
the light fall directly on it. • Adapt the color tablets, as far as possible to
the shape of the panel. • Check color pads on the damaged panel and the adjacent
piece, respecting clearance between parts. • Maintain a distance of 50 cm betwe
en the pad and eye color. • Vary the angles of vision to detect the flop or late
ral reflection. • Avoid reflections from other nearby vehicles or colored walls.
• Do not look for a long time the color charts in order to avoid eyestrain.
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