Male Speaker: Yesterday Devin showed to you how to prepare a fender for paint but today we're going to show how to find a paint code and how to mix the paint.
Male Speaker: Alright, today we are going to be showing you how to find the paint code and mix paints like we explained earlier. A lot of your cars between various places between on your doors that can be in the trunk underneath the spare tire, in you glove box. Today though for the Ford Focus, it's really easy to find they are grounded on these around the door. So you just kind of look through on the sticker and right here it says exterior paint and the code is TS. So we'll take that code and use it find what color of paint this is, and what we need to mix it.
And since, we are just came from the car and we've our paint code in the TS and we come in and we get to our PPG color chip books, and use this all the different color chips for all the different years, and our year is 2002, so we go to 2002, we find Ford and right here, it says TS which is the paint code that we need. The PPG number is 4987 and what you use this for just kind of verify that you have close to the same color which -- this is a color we are using, it's a silver frost metallic and after we found this, we can type it in our computer that we have and it'll actually give us the formula that we need mix the paint.
Now, we have our computer and this is what will give us the formula for our paint come over here. We do our code search, type in the brand code 4987 and we'll search that it gives us right here, two different options, we want the Ford North America option and we change this to DBC which is our paint that we use and here it shows us that we have quite a few different variances in the paints, the difference is like on this one, it's your regular prime color, this one has little bit more blue tint to it, your lighter flop, a darker coarser face with the light flop red, yellow, and then what we'll do is since we've variances we'll go to our variance chips and look through those and then go to the car and see which one matches up with this.
Over here, we've all the different mix of cars, different companies right here, we have our Ford number 5 which is grace, we pull that out and this kind of shows you all the different colors and shades, and tints from all the different colors so what we are going to do is find a odd number which is 4987, and we have these three right here and the variances. You can kind of see little difference in them so what we'll do is we'll take these over to the car and we have a sunlight from 3M that helps reproduce like the actual sunlight what it look like outdoors. So we'll take this stuff and go over to car and see which chip matches up best with the car.
And on this chips, they have holes in them and that's to kind of help figure out which one matches the best. This one is a little bit yellow, we look at the next two, and I would say that this would be the one that we need, and looking at it, it's 4987 it's got red to it. So we'll have to go back to the computer and find which pink code on the computer has the red tint to it and that'll be the one that we mix up.
And since we determined that's the one we need has a reddish tint to it. We come back here, we find which one is 4987 with the 'R' code which is right here, it says redder and that's what we need, so we double click on it. Right here it shows the manufacturer of the OEM code, the brand code, the variant that's in it, and here is the formula of what we need to be able to mix this tinted color for the car, and we come down here and we just going to mix up 8 ounces right now, and once you got everything that you need, you just come down and click on the label. It'll print aside the label and on this label, it shows us, of course, you got the brand code, the color and all that and then on this side it will show us the formula to mixing up the paint which product we need to mix it and how much we need to make it, we will go over in the mixing room and mix this up.
Alright, now we are back here on mixing area, we have two different mixing stations that we are using. We've a PPG and the Deltron and then we have back here. We have a PPG -- which is just a little bit cheaper product line. These both are PPG products that we carry and today we'll be using our Deltron products and so we come back out here and look at those.
And you always want to make sure that you got your paint mixed thoroughly, you got to get all your metallics and the coarse parts from the paint mixed thoroughly through so you get the right color, and you don't mix them -- you might land up having a different looking color than what you need. So I will use our label here that we got. We have got our choice right here, all the product number that we need, the product number and what color it is and how many parts we need of that certain product.
Now that we have it mixed, we are going to go ahead and put it on the paint shaker here, mix it up, make sure that it's all thoroughly mixed, get all the metallics and the flattener and the flop in it, all mixed thoroughly, just set it down in here, tighten it up. Close the lid and mix it.
Alright, now that we have it mixed up, you can see our color here, our next step to be -- we'll get it ready just to be painted, so check back next time.
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