Have you ever seen a car dri­ving down the road where one door or fend­er is just a slight­ly dif­fer­ent shade than the rest of the body? It is a glar­ing eye­sore that im­me­di­ate­ly screams, “This car was in an ac­ci­dent!” When you take your car in for body­work and paint­ing, you ex­pect it to come back look­ing fac­to­ry new. But achiev­ing a flaw­less, in­vis­i­ble re­pair is ac­tu­al­ly a mas­sive sci­en­tif­ic chal­lenge.

Every ve­hi­cle comes from the fac­to­ry with a spe­cif­ic “paint code.” You might think that if you scratch your five-year-old red car, the au­to body shop sim­ply looks up the code, buys a can of that ex­act red, and sprays it on. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, it is not that sim­ple.

From the mo­ment you dri­ve your car off the deal­er­ship lot, the harsh ul­tra­vi­o­let rays of the Caribbean sun be­gin to slow­ly break down and fade the pig­ments in your paint. En­vi­ron­men­tal fall­out, salt air, and chem­i­cal car wash­es slight­ly al­ter the fin­ish over time. If a painter sim­ply us­es the orig­i­nal fac­to­ry paint code on a five-year-old car, the new­ly paint­ed pan­el will look vi­brant and dark, com­plete­ly mis­match­ing the slight­ly fad­ed pan­els di­rect­ly next to it.

To achieve a tru­ly in­vis­i­ble re­pair, elite au­to body shops no longer re­ly on hu­man eye­sight and guess­work; they use dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy. Mas­ter painters use a high­ly sen­si­tive de­vice called a spec­tropho­tome­ter. This dig­i­tal cam­era is placed di­rect­ly on­to your car’s cur­rent, fad­ed paint to scan its ex­act chem­i­cal make­up and light re­flec­tion. The com­put­er then for­mu­lates a cus­tom, mi­cro-ad­just­ed paint recipe that match­es the cur­rent state of your car, not the day it left the fac­to­ry.

Your next step

for suc­cess

Nev­er set­tle for a patch­work paint job. If your ve­hi­cle re­quires col­li­sion re­pair, seek out a cut­ting-edge fa­cil­i­ty equipped with dig­i­tal colour-match­ing tech­nol­o­gy and a so­phis­ti­cat­ed, in-house paint mix­ing sys­tem. Look for a com­pre­hen­sive garage that seam­less­ly han­dles every­thing from the ini­tial in­sur­ance claims as­sis­tance to the fi­nal, flaw­less paint­ing. Shops that lead the way in au­to­mo­tive aes­thet­ics will en­sure your re­pair is com­plete­ly in­vis­i­ble, restor­ing both your car’s beau­ty and its max­i­mum re­sale val­ue.

Pro­fes­sion­al Garage Ltd is a sec­ond-gen­er­a­tion, woman-owned au­to­mo­tive busi­ness based in Laven­tille.

Vis­it: 25 Pash­ley Street, Laven­tille

Call: 625-7725

What­sApp: 487-5047