The ripples from the Japan tsunami are far reaching

Even American automakers are feeling it. Ford shut down the Mustang line. Some of the paint colors across their lineup they can't do because some of the tints and pigments come from Japan.

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by etc1006

Even American automakers are feeling it. Ford shut down the Mustang line. Some of the paint colors across their lineup they can't do because some of the tints and pigments come from Japan.

(rant) Since I fix cars for a living I am sorta glad to hear they have to pitch some of the colors. They have too many for pete's sake. Thousands of colors, and I have to match all of them using my trained eye and alot of guessing. I have about 10k color chips in packets hanging on the wall in my mixing room. It is just crazy, who cares what color your hybrid prius is. There are thousands of shades of white, why can't there be 1, white is white people (end rant)

Sucks to hear that Toyota is having issues... And they just got back in the saddle from all of those run-away cars...

Best of luck to all of those who are having issues due to the Tsunami. I feel your pain, the Democrats are doing the same thing to small business in America, so I do not feel left out. I would love to feel left out.

Originally Posted by lincpimp

(rant) Since I fix cars for a living I am sorta glad to hear they have to pitch some of the colors. They have too many for pete's sake. Thousands of colors, and I have to match all of them using my trained eye and alot of guessing. I have about 10k color chips in packets hanging on the wall in my mixing room. It is just crazy, who cares what color your hybrid prius is. There are thousands of shades of white, why can't there be 1, white is white people (end rant)

I used to work in the our mix room at work although I have no idea why they called it that. We never mixed any paints and they all arrived as they were used. ????? Anyway at times we would have a color change and that meant I had to flush out the whole system to make sure there was no left over paint in the pipes that were going to the spray booths. The process was very time involving and messy. One time I went home covered from head to toe in blue. I looked like a slaughtered a smurf. Anyway what used to have me scratching my head is the new color batch of paint would arrive and look exactly like the one it was replacing. Even after painting there would be almost no way for a human eye to tell them apart. I have no idea why they would make such minuscule changes.