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Well, the Iron Gunmetal Glimmer rims that turned out so nice? He HATES them and told me I need to redo them because they are a lighter color than the truck. Unbelievable. Now he's blaming my color samples (they're too small), and thinks I should be able to perfectly match a color no matter what it is. I explained to him...you can match paint to powder colors, but it is nearly impossible to perfectly match powder colors to paint, especially using catalog pictures and little swatches without the clear topcoat (which in the case of this particular color....lightened the final result considerably). He said now that he'd rather have black than a metallic gray that is lighter than the vehicle color. He did however offer to pay for me to redo them after I explained to him that HE picked the color from the samples and yeah, looks close enough, do them. Unbe-frikking-lieveable!!!! I am going to take one of the rims, shoot a translucent black topcoat over them and see how it comes out. If that works, its a simple matter of a final topcoat on all of them. Otherwise, blast them all off and start over. Can you feel my pain??? Did I mention what a p.i.t.a. 22" rims are? 
Makes me glad that all the wheels I've done so far have been black, don't have to worry about matching colors. I've had people ask me about matching paint colors and I tell them its very difficult to do and have it turn out right. They don't always understand why its so hard 
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