Why Does White Pearl Cost Extra? #automobile #car #automotive #manufacturing

Interestingly enough my first two cars were white pearl.

Beautiful kine is Eminem purple white

That's a Jetta

Now the reason white pearls cost more is because there are three layers so you have a ground layer of white then you have the second layer which is translucent Pearl, and then you have the clear coat on top so effectively you’re using twice as much colour to paint the car and three layers can be matched exactly if the effort and time was put into matching

Mica = child labor mining.😢

I painted alot of cars Wimbledon white, and alot thought it was pearl, cheap, looks like a pearl job, easy to match.

It's only one reason that color is popular.

Metallic is in the base coat not Metallic spayed over the color

So its much better a straight color paint.. than PEARL ONES.. ITS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN STRAIGHT COLOR ONES..😊

Esto es un comercial de tv 📺 ke. No

My pearl paint just chips right off the car.

Do Mazda soul red next

im actually a spray painter ..just did a Mazda color code 43k white pearl it has white pearl and a gold pearl in a clear binder its a horrible color putting the 2nd layer over the ground coat color ,,,always is impossible to match perfectly ..thats why i do blending or a complete side blend .i hate being a auto refinisher ..everything needs to be perfect .

Are you dm?

As a car detailer, I hate this colour so much. It's easy to burn through when cutting/polishing and colour matching is near impossible. I now quote impossible prices so I don't have to touch them.

Free on BMW

"Metallic flakes over basecoat "
Before your post videos, learn WTF you're talking about first!!

Because they made it so you have to special order it , then they can charge you what they want for the paint lol

This color is expensive because pearls are expensive 😊

So where’s the difference with a black pearl paint ?

When doing a touch up it's the ground colour that you blend because the pearl is so transparent it's not that hard to do

The video and comments are all bullshit. People who don't know anything outside of a Google search need to sit down and keep to playing with their crayons. "pearls" are nothing compared to the quad coats that are out these days and I'll take a pearl to paint any day and have perfectly matched thousands myself

Bought a Sienna with blizzard pearl, just $500 more. The paint looks indeed MUCH better than the basic white.

Cool

Mercedes calls it diamond white. It's beautiful, but I took the polar white. It cost 2K less and with all of the touch ups and bumper painting, the match is fine. I got over it.

Your wrong about everything. Nice job

Why do floor mats cost extra?

See all the people painting that car this is simply because it's cheap labor to get those robots to labor for less coinage

My wife hates white colored cars. We already have one. When I bought another (used) car, much to her dismay, it was also white. I was a little disappointed because I know the car I bought was available in pearl white but ours is ice white, just like our other Volvo. As an amateur detailer, I would have loved to have the pearl white to polish and wax.

And the best part is white paint on cars is one of the most common colors to flake and peel off.

It's because of demand 😂
There are lots of white options before but people prefer other colors, that's why other colors back then is expensive than white, now too much other colors surfaced, so they came back to wanting white 😅

bullshit. a dozen or so years ago white was the cheapest color and no one had any theories about it. now for unknown reasons it has become fashionable and so many fairy tales are invented. the same with physical buttons on the cockpit. they used to be the norm, then tablets and screens appeared, they said, oh god it must be more expensive... recently NCAP confirmed that physical buttons are safer and many people want them, and what? corporations are playing fools out of us again and saying, yes, ok, but buttons are costs, it must be more expensive.

Good to know, now I'll avoid white pearl.

BMW did use real mother of pearl from abalone and took too many threatening the species

Jokes on you, i know a paint shop that knows their stuff

Pearl also requires a different spray technique even for robotic manufacturing so there goes extra costs.

Fun fact: purple and blue colours used to be expensive.

So pearl paint will eventually become cheap😅

You mean, rat flakes?

I was a ase painter years ago. Seeing robots painting is odd. Still cant match the human. Orange peel still on new vehicles 😢

As a former owner od a pearl car, i can say FACTS!

Thank you

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The reason glitter once used by little girls at parties are no longer around is because the car industry uses them in car paints to make their paint shiny.