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Hey Y'all, I've recently unwrapped my car and found some damage and incorrect coloring on the rear bumper of my c63s. I'm trying to find a specific answer on how hard my paint is to match to the body. My paint is the Designo Graphite Grey Magno (Matte) and I've been given the run-around about how difficult blending is for a close to paint matched or paint matched rear bumper. I'll include some pictures of the damage on the rear bumper, in all honesty I just want this fixed and if it isn't possible to 1:1 paint match the bumper to the rest of the car I'd at least want to get the damage fixed. Thanks for the help in advance.
So this was hiding under the wrap, or removing the wrap ripped some paint off? As I understand it it's the former. That explains why it had been wrapped by the previous owner. Magno paint is pretty much impossible to match w/o repainting the whole car. If just one panel is repainted, you'll see it. If you find an experienced person with Magno paint, they may get it close, but many resort to repainting at least the whole side where the damage is on, so in your case that would be the whole rear, but then the bumper would likely not match the rear quarter panel and so it goes from there. The previous owner likely found themselves in the same situation and ended up wrapping it.
So this was hiding under the wrap, or removing the wrap ripped some paint off? As I understand it it's the former. That explains why it had been wrapped by the previous owner. Magno paint is pretty much impossible to match w/o repainting the whole car. If just one panel is repainted, you'll see it. If you find an experienced person with Magno paint, they may get it close, but many resort to repainting at least the whole side where the damage is on, so in your case that would be the whole rear, but then the bumper would likely not match the rear quarter panel and so it goes from there. The previous owner likely found themselves in the same situation and ended up wrapping it.
Yeah I’m assuming that instead of painting the area(s) affected to blend it they instead went with wrapping the car, most likely a more cost effective route than paint. Honestly the bumper looks repainted already and the wrap might have lifted the paint up from it. The bumper is a lighter color almost like a bumper you’d get from MB in white. I have a shop that’s going to repaint the bumper as well as they can and see where it goes from there.
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