MuffinMcFluffin
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- First Name
- Brandon
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- Elk Grove, CA
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- 1999 Honda Civic EX, 2019 Honda Civic Si
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So I own a 2019 Civic Si Sedan in Modern Steel Metallic, and although it is my color of choice, it just doesn't quite sit with me in certain lighting outside. It's a bit too bright, and in a weird way (compared to that of the PMM that the Hatch offers) it has a bit of a purplish tinge to it... and I mean it's ever so slight, but if you compare the two then you know what I mean.
Perhaps I can't do anything about that little purplish bit, but I did want to know if I can get it just a hair darker. Not black, not even close... just... darker. When you "build" the car on its website, it's significantly darker looking than the actual car itself.
I would like to find a way to get ever so slightly closer to that color. Not fully, but slightly.
Do waxes and polishes help out with this at all? Is there something else to the magic to make it happen? What exactly is paint correction, for that matter? I'm going to get that done before my ceramic coating anyway, so perhaps there's something to the light of: "Can you go a shade darker than what we're looking at here?"
If a repainting is the only thing that makes this possible, then I'm likely out of the game. Besides that, is there any other remedy that's possible?
And for the record, obviously the solutions I'm seeking aren't permanent ones. I just mean the darkened illusion, is all.
Thanks.
Perhaps I can't do anything about that little purplish bit, but I did want to know if I can get it just a hair darker. Not black, not even close... just... darker. When you "build" the car on its website, it's significantly darker looking than the actual car itself.
I would like to find a way to get ever so slightly closer to that color. Not fully, but slightly.
Do waxes and polishes help out with this at all? Is there something else to the magic to make it happen? What exactly is paint correction, for that matter? I'm going to get that done before my ceramic coating anyway, so perhaps there's something to the light of: "Can you go a shade darker than what we're looking at here?"
If a repainting is the only thing that makes this possible, then I'm likely out of the game. Besides that, is there any other remedy that's possible?
And for the record, obviously the solutions I'm seeking aren't permanent ones. I just mean the darkened illusion, is all.
Thanks.
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