Rear bumper color difference issue

[classique]

My Golf is united grey and in some lights you can see the front and rear bumpers are a darker shade of grey and less metallic. By car was brand new and has not had any accidents etc, so thats just the way it is.

you really comfort my heart, btw mate if it is possible to post some pictures to have a look as the color difference on my rear bumper is very obvious.

[Lucas_R]

Interesting that the car is United Grey. That colour was supposedly unique to the Golf R in Australia (the GTI got Carbon Steel Grey instead).

You do see the odd united grey MK6 GTI around - certainly not common though. A guy i know on the central coast recently bought a UG Mk6 GTi for his wife. Kind of like Golf R's in red, there's a few about but not many.

[classique]

Interesting that the car is United Grey. That colour was supposedly unique to the Golf R in Australia (the GTI got Carbon Steel Grey instead).

that is what my sale consultant told me when I made the payment.
: )

[Lucas_R]

you really comfort my heart, btw mate if it is possible to post some pictures to have a look as the color difference on my rear bumper is very obvious.

If you click the link in my signature, it will take you to my car diary thread. Plenty of pics in there of the car that you can look at, although not sure if the camera picks up the differences in colour.

I find it most noticeable when parked at night in a carpark, and the fluro lights are shining on the car. Fluro lights are great for picking faults in paintwork. During the daytime, i cant see much of a difference, but in low light situations its more noticeable.

[QBDentFree]

A little bit off topic, but a couple things I find interesting-
When panel beaters are realigning the front of a tiida after a decent knock, they have to leave the front slightly out of alignment, or the panels don't line up. Sure enough, after measuring a couple brand new ones, it turns out the front is out of "square" from factory.

Also, one particular holden dealer I know of has a certain $$ amount allocated for repairs on each brand new car. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this were true for most, if not all, new car dealers

^ this is true. I worked at a Holden dealership about 12 yrs ago and it wasn't uncommon for bumpers/side skirts/spoilers etc to get scratched when coming off the car transporters. And sometimes larger items like bonnets or boot lids would have marks on them that couldn't be polished out, so had to be resprayed.

My wife's younger brother recently bought a near new (2yr old) Commodore SV6 in that horrible green that's almost fluro, and when he brought it around to show us, i could see immediately that the whole passenger side had been resprayed (i used to be a car detailer, so i have an eye for picking resprays/repairs). You could see the orange peel was much more noticeable, the colour was slightly darker, and the flaking/peeling clear coat near the mirror was a little bit of a giveaway. Also things like "fish eyes" in the clear coat.

And a friend recently bought a Nissan Tiida (shoot me now) for his fiance, brought it around and the rear end/rear passenger quarter panel has been repaired and resprayed badly. The bumper wasn't even aligned correctly. Once again the paint was darker, and you could see where the colour and clear coat was "blended" into the roof area. You could also see the rear quarter was warped if you looked at the right angle.

[Lucas_R]

A little bit off topic, but a couple things I find interesting-
When panel beaters are realigning the front of a tiida after a decent knock, they have to leave the front slightly out of alignment, or the panels don't line up. Sure enough, after measuring a couple brand new ones, it turns out the front is out of "square" from factory.

Also, one particular holden dealer I know of has a certain $$ amount allocated for repairs on each brand new car. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this were true for most, if not all, new car dealers

Interesting...crack up that the Tiida (bloody dreadfull car and stupid name isn't it) is out of whack from the factory. Why on earth you would go away from the Pulsar name that was so well known and highly regarded is beyond me. Not to mention the look of the Tiida....only a mother could love it.

[Tux]

When I picked up my Tornado red GTI after repairs due to it being 'two bobbed' I noticed a definite shade difference between the repaired quarter panel and rear bumper. Panel beater then an insurance assessor then a mate who 'knows cars' all told me it was due to the plastic bumper bars never matching panel work exactly. Really annoyed me then and still does that I have a two toned car. No one else seems to be able to see it btw.