Pickup truck primed and masked for paint inside the brightly lit downdraft paint booth at Clairemont Collision in San Diego

The Art & Science of Auto Paint

A great collision repair is completely invisible. The structural work underneath keeps you safe, but the paint job on the outside is what you see every day. At Clairemont Collision, we treat auto painting as both a precise science and an art form.

Paint mixing room at Clairemont Collision in San Diego, with shelves of tinting toner cans, a color formula computer screen and wall-mounted 3M dispensers — Our in-house paint mixing room, where each color is mixed to your vehicle's factory paint code.

Factory Color Matching with PPG

We use PPG paint systems for factory color matching. Every color is mixed right here in our paint mixing room, starting from your vehicle's factory paint code and fine-tuned so the new finish blends into the original paint.

Our Adjuster's Eye for Detail

During our years as insurance appraisers, we rejected plenty of "good enough" paint jobs. We know exactly what orange peel, improper blending, and mismatched clear coats look like. Because we've inspected vehicles with a highly critical eye for years, we hold our own shop's paint technicians to an incredibly rigorous standard.

Complex Metallics

Whether it's a deep, multi-dimensional shade like "Infinite Deep Sea" or a bright metallic silver, our computerized mixing systems ensure the metal flake lays perfectly to match the factory finish.

Premium Protection

We use Marquee-quality paints and high-grade clear coats that don't just look beautiful—they provide essential UV protection against the harsh San Diego sun, preventing fading and oxidation.

Rear view of a primed pickup truck, masked with tape and plastic sheeting, inside the downdraft paint booth at Clairemont Collision in San Diego — A truck masked and primed in our downdraft booth, ready for color.

Our Paint Process:

Computerized OEM Color Matching using digital spectrophotometers
Precise panel blending for seamless transitions
Controlled environment bake booths for a hardened, factory-like cure
Final wet-sanding and polishing for a mirror finish

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Expert Paint Matching