Commercial Vehicle Painting & Fleet Color Match in Austin, TX

Fleet White Is Not One Color

White is the most common fleet color and the least forgiving one. There is no such thing as "white." Ford's Oxford White, GM's Summit White and the Sprinter's Arctic White are genuinely different colors, and a shop that treats them as interchangeable hands you back a panel that does not match the one beside it.

Age is the bigger problem. Texas sun oxidizes paint, so a five-year-old van no longer matches its own factory paint code. Mix strictly to the code and you get a panel that is correct on paper and obviously wrong in daylight next to the panel beside it. We match to the vehicle in front of us, then blend the new color out into the adjacent panels so the transition lands in the middle of a panel where the eye cannot find it, rather than stopping hard at a seam.

Some whites are a pearl or a tri-coat rather than a solid, which is a different process with more steps and more cost. We identify which one your vehicle carries at the estimate, so the number you are quoted is the number you pay.

Matching One Van, or Matching the Fleet

These are two different jobs and it is worth being explicit about which one you want, because the right answer changes the work.

Matching the vehicle means the repaired panel disappears into the rest of that van. That is the default and it is what almost everyone wants. Matching the fleet means the repaired van has to sit convincingly next to your other vans in a row at a job site or in a photograph - and if those vans are different ages, matching this one perfectly to itself may still leave it looking newer than the rest.

Tell us which matters more at the estimate. If it is fleet consistency, that is a conversation about how much of the vehicle gets refinished, not just the damaged panel.

What We Need to Quote a Paint Job

The more of this we have up front, the closer the estimate is to the invoice.

• Year, make and model, plus the paint code from the door jamb sticker if you can read it
• Whether the finish is a solid, a pearl or a tri-coat, if you know - we will confirm it
• Photos in daylight, including the panels next to the damage, not just the damage
• Whether the vehicle carries lettering, a wrap, decals or graphics over the area
• Whether racks, shelving, ladders or a partition have to come off to do the work
• Whether it lives outside, and roughly how long it has
• Whether it needs to match your other vehicles, not just itself

Rebrands, Color Changes and Resale

Two things reliably send a fleet to a paint shop that have nothing to do with a collision. One is a rebrand - the company name changes, or the livery does, and the vehicles have to follow. The other is resale, where a van full of decal shadow and mismatched panels sells for meaningfully less than the same van looking straight.

Both are worth asking about rather than assuming. A color change is a much larger job than a panel repair, and on an older vehicle it is not always the right call financially. Bring us the vehicle and the goal and we will give you a written number and an honest read on whether it is worth doing.

We do not produce wraps, lettering or vehicle graphics in house. Where artwork has to come off for the work, we note it on the estimate so replacing it is part of the plan rather than a surprise at pickup.