All "scanned" samples end up with a "formula". I describes which vehicles and pigments, from that manufacturer, will provide the closest match. So, you can get a "formula" from any of them. Unfortunately, that "formula" only applies to the specific manufacturer's pigments and vehicles. It can't be used by another who uses a diffeernt set of pigments and vehicles.
Make sure you pick the vendor and type of product you want, and let him do it. If you want a DuPont Enbamel, then that's where to go for an enamel formula. If you want a PPG Polyurethane (and they have 4 grades), then go there, pick your grade, and get your sample.
Tower Paint actually has the original Rootes formulas and makes up spray cans for about $9. They have been mentioned here before, and have an internet connection. This is, as was the original, an enamel. It comes with a code number from Chrysler UK, and most major manufacturer's have the equivalent in hteir pigments and vehicles. BTW: a :vehicle:, if you are not familiar with it's use here, is not a car but a basic liquid, to which the pigments are added, to make the can of paint. This can is then mixed with other ingredients before it ever gets to a spray gun. Each manufacturer has their own "system", and each body shop is usually equipped to only handle one of them, as the inventory and equipment are not cheap.
The "reference" that each manufacturer will get, from the Rootes code (like on the Tower can, not the sales brochure, will say "lighter", or "darker", or some other qualifying difference other than "identical".
While Tower may give you the Rootes number over the phone, or even sell you the gallon size containers, it is going to be enamel. If you want the latest color danded hardened polyurethatne, you need the "equivalent", or a "match". You could order one spray can from tower, spray a 6x8 checkerboard test panel and half of an other, and have the dealer scan that. Then he can spray the other half of the second panel with his "formula" and you can see how close it gets. That's what I did with PPG, and it works just fine (if you get competent support).
Steve
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