can you tint white car paint?
Yes you certainly can tint fleet white paint. But here is the problem. Most people think that (when it comes to paint) black is black and white is white. I will agree to some extent, that as long as black paint does not have any pearl or metallic in it, there isn't usually a ton of difference between most blacks. Yes, there are some blacks that have a bit of green or whatever in them, but usually there isn't a ton of difference between non-metallic/pearl blacks. This cannot, however, be said for white. There are a zillion whites. Who knows what tinting agents are already in the fleet white? You could probably start with a fleet white and get close to a few stock Mopar colors. It depends on what color you want. If you start with a gallon of white, you could add a bunch of red tint, but you will still have pink. You want a nice blue? To get anything other than a light robin's egg blue you would have to add a ton of tint. Light colors like beige, light blue, cream, pale yellow and pink would be possible, but I don't see it possible to get any darker colors. There are budget paints available. I HIGHLY recommend the Restoration shop paint from the Color Library at TCP Global. I used their paint on my Barracuda 6 years ago. The paint sprayed, covered and flowed out as nicely as anything I had ever used, and it was less than half the cost of PPG. You can't argue with the results.
Yes you certainly can tint fleet white paint. But here is the problem. Most people think that (when it comes to paint) black is black and white is white. I will agree to some extent, that as long as black paint does not have any pearl or metallic in it, there isn't usually a ton of difference between most blacks. Yes, there are some blacks that have a bit of green or whatever in them, but usually there isn't a ton of difference between non-metallic/pearl blacks. This cannot, however, be said for white. There are a zillion whites. Who knows what tinting agents are already in the fleet white? You could probably start with a fleet white and get close to a few stock Mopar colors. It depends on what color you want. If you start with a gallon of white, you could add a bunch of red tint, but you will still have pink. You want a nice blue? To get anything other than a light robin's egg blue you would have to add a ton of tint. Light colors like beige, light blue, cream, pale yellow and pink would be possible, but I don't see it possible to get any darker colors. There are budget paints available. I HIGHLY recommend the Restoration shop paint from the Color Library at TCP Global. I used their paint on my Barracuda 6 years ago. The paint sprayed, covered and flowed out as nicely as anything I had ever used, and it was less than half the cost of PPG. You can't argue with the results.
