I'm ordering a vista blue 06, but I'm wondering if I should ask the dealership for vista blue paint for my ducktail spoiler I am planning on ordering. I don't know if vista blue is a new color that will be hard for paint shops to match. I also don't know how much paint I should ask for. Any ideas?

 

I believe this is a color that has been used for mustangs in the past, but I am not 100% sure on that. Either way, I would think with the paint code, one could match it up pretty easily..............

A painter on these boards might be better at answering that one.

 

Just about any GOOD quality body shop should be able to match it. Of course I would take it to our body shop and have them paint it.

 

Vista Blue is a new color.

There's nothing special about a dealership body shop. They both probably buy the paint from same local vendor.

 

When your car arrives your paint code will be on your left door frame. That's what the bodyshop will use to match the paint. Don't worry about Fords paint being better than the PPG or Dupont stuff you'll get from a bodyshop. Most likely even the dealerships bodyshop uses either PPG or Dupont, I don't even think they can get paint factory direct. I could go on for a long time about how even factory paint varies slightly from car to car, blah, blah, blah, but the eye can't detect such minor differences. Anyway, there will always be a very slight difference and this can be seen on almost any car. Under the right light you can almost always see a slight difference in the paint from any steel panel (quarter panel) to a composite panel (bumper covers). The plastic absorbs the paint differently than the sheet metal, and your ducktail will do the same vs the trunk lid... but almost no one will ever notice and there's nothing you can do about it anyway...

Bottom line, don't buy the paint.