Basecoat doesn't match. What would you do?

In the body shop they usually leave you alone while you are in the mixing room. A lot of jobber stores only have a couple guys working. so in the middle of your mix the counterman answers 3 phone calls and looks up parts. Then rings up the guy standing at the counter with a gallon of antifreeze. Then tries to remember if he poured the 3 grams of red into your paint or not.

Modern mixing systems don't work like that, and even if they did, he should be able to read the scale and compare that to where he was on the formula. No excuse for it.
And like my friend TK stated above, it's a hell of a lot harder to mix in the Shop when you've got the phone ringing, Customers waiting for an estimate, it's 100 degrees in the shop, and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Somehow we manage to not screw it up and get the correct mix, because we have to. I can count on one hand the number of mixes I screwed up in the last five years or so.
Oh and if you are getting your base from a place that also sells antifreeze......it's time to look for a new Jobber.
 
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