A Guide to Sherwin Williams Automotive Paint
We know the name Sherwin Williams well. Not just because they've been selling paint for home improvement since 1866, or because their paints have been used around the world by manufacturers and home owners alike. It's the quality that makes them so notorious.
It's unsurprising that this quality in interior and exterior home paints also extends to other products as well, including:
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Car paints and coatings
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Wood stains
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Faux finishes
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Siding stains
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Solvents and removers
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Caulks
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Masonry restoration and protection
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Brushes/ rollers/ spray equipment
Here we'll explore their automotive products and why they make a great choice for anyone renovating, fixing, or changing the color of a car.
What's Different About Their Brand?
Sherwin Williams had already expanded into every other facet of our paint lives before expanding into automotive paint, bringing their centuries of experience along with them to create one of the most efficient and consistent paints on the market.
Because they provide their paints to manufacturers, you're receiving a manufacturer worthy paint. This means unparalleled consistency in color, optimal efficiency, reduced waste, faster dry times, and reduced need for buffing.
Sherwin Williams Automotive Paint Supplies
As you know, there are different types of automotive paint, each having their own purpose. This brand offers not only finishes, but undercoats, clear coats, and more.
Undercoats
Undercoats work as a primer that provides body shops and DIYers a smoother surface to apply paint to and allows them to achieve more consistency in paint color, with reduced likelihood of chipping and rust.
They do this by etching the metal body to fill scratches and imperfections and create a smoother, more adhesive surface for other layers.
Sherwin Williams offers a premium urethane primer designed for high build and excellent filling of repairs.
Hardener
Primers typically require a hardener be mixed in with them and have a specific ratio amount needed. The Sherwin Williams primer we mentioned above requires the Finish 1 Hardener. The mixing is 4 parts primer to 1 part hardener.
Adding too much or too little will alter the recommended curing times.
Clearcoat
Clearcoat is a glossy, transparent coating that forms a barrier against the environment, protecting the paint and the deeper layers of the automotive body.
This is sprayed after the colored basecoat, and is usually the last coat of the painting process, which means it must be durable enough to resist abrasion. Sherwin Williams offers clearcoat options including the ATX Overall Clearcoat product.
Sherwin Williams Automotive Paint Colors
One thing that sets this brand of car paint apart from other providers is the ability to achieve a factory color match. Because they supply manufacturers and production lines as well as retail customers, you're able to replicate factory results.
If you're not looking for a factory color match, they also offer a muscle car series, classic series, and custom series.
Muscle car series
Sherwin Williams teamed up with Barrett- Jackson to create the muscle car series of finishes, to provide DIYers and auto body shops with a perfect match to the vibrant colors of the old classics as well as the more recent muscle cars.
This series stays try to the 1960's and 70's muscle car era and includes colors such as:
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Spicy Merlot
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Yellow Jacket
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Spearmint
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Sand Drift
Classic Series
The Classic color series is hand-matched to the most popular vehicles in the 1950's through the 80's. This was possible because they retrieved the original OEM color standards issued during that period of production.
This means you can get the exact color code for any specific car throughout a thirty year period.
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Dodge Brite Blue Metallic
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GM Light Yellow
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Dodge Bright Yellow Green
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GM Dusk Blue Metallic
Custom Series
The custom series is comprised of colors that are reminiscent of both classic muscle car colors as well as some of today's top custom builders. This series contains colors such as:
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Antique White Denim
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Black Denim
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Charcoal
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Sand Storm Pearl
Metallic and Solid Colors
Sherwin Williams car paint colors don't stop with those specialized series' above. Not only can you get a custom blend of metallic oranges, or match the factory racing green of a 1967 Jaguar, but solid colors are offered.
Why This Brand Stands Out
Whether you're searching for the best products for restoration or simple collision repair, Sherwin-Williams delivers a quality paint with a glossy, outlasting color that can be factory matched for the most desirable look.
Their formulas are easy to mix, fast drying, require minimal sanding and buffing, and are designed to spray beautifully from both HVLP and gravity feed sprayers.
If you want to see what centuries of experience creating some of the finest paints offers, check out Sherwin-Williams automotive paint products at Auto Body Toolmart.
