Ultra 9K Refinish System Helps High-Volume Auto Body Shop Get It Right the First Time

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Faith Quality Auto Body in Murrieta, CA, matches colors the first time every time with Sherwin-Williams’ Ultra 9K® Waterborne Refinish System.

The shop tells customers on its website it takes special pride in its ability to match factory finishes as the final step in the restoration process, and Saunders said Ultra 9K makes that easy.

Ultra 9K is a waterborne basecoat system, with 63 pigment rich toners, that gets the right color, the first time---even the most difficult---and is OEM-approved.

“It was a real easy transition,” Saunders said of the switch to Ultra 9K.

Sherwin-Williams provided two weeks of training for the shop’s technicians on the system’s new equipment and software, he said.

“The biggest worry when you switch paint is the colors won’t match or look good,” he said. “This paint lays down nice. It’s very user-friendly and the color match is terrific. Saunders said all systems have a color eye camera to help match paint, but the Ultra 9K system’s camera seems to work especially well.

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The base coat goes on “super smooth,” Saunders said, so the clear coat does too.

“Normally, the camera selects a chip that doesn’t match exactly,” he said. “But when we spray with this one, it matches.”

Saunders said the ease of color-matching in particular has improved the shop’s productivity.

“Formulas are only as good as they can be,” he said. “That’s why color matching is so important. People don’t want so see their car looking like it’s been repaired.”

Saunders said more complicated modern finishes—in particular three-stage pearls—have always been the hardest to match.

“It’s just phenomenal with this system,” he said.

The system’s base coat lays down super smooth, Saunders said, leaving no texture, meaning the clear coat goes on smooth too.

In addition to the great product and results, Saunders said Sherwin-Williams always provides terrific support to the shop.

“The people representing Sherwin-Williams have good knowledge,” he said. “If you have any questions or issues, they’re always really close by.

“It’s just a really good company,” he said.

Sherwin-Williams® Automotive Finishes
4440 Warrensville Center Rd.
Warrensville Hts., OH 44124
(800) 798-5872
www.sherwin-automotive.com
Facebook: @SherwinWilliamsAutomotive
Instagram: @swrefinish
LinkedIn: @Sherwin-WilliamsAutomotiveFinishes
YouTube: @SWAFC

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Abby Andrews

Online & Web Content Editor
Abby Andrews is the editor of Autobody News.

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