Either a cult color of the 90s or a individually created color, whereby the color is trying and painting to try plus programs, customer ideas have practically no limitation.
To order a new sport in the color of our favorite bag, a special furniture or a miniature model of childhood? Or maybe in a cult color of the 90s?
When a customer configured his new Porsche, he has practically opened all doors in the world of colors.
You can choose between numerous predefined tones and create a completely individual color for the areas 718, 911 and Taycan, including the color name itself.
A great growth of the demand for Porsche vehicles with personalized color, so that the company further expanded its extensive range of standard and special colors, was recorded years ago. In the new model year it will be possible to implement more than 190 in the entire area.
The main aspect is the availability of typical colors of the history of Porsche, the so -called color. In addition, there is the possibility for models that are manufactured in the Auffenhausen plant to develop completely individual creations according to the customer’s request for a new vehicle.
Trying these colors of the color and programs are a sovereign option in which imagination knows almost no limits. In any case, a technical check is required to decide whether the idea can come true.
In the case of special request vehicles on the customer’s property, a posteriori personized to transform them into a unique piece or in the context of a factory conversion, inquiries of the color, for example, plus program can also be made for models that do not consist of Zufenstrenhausen.
Color creation, a high degree of manual work
Painting different vehicles in special colors with the high quality of the Porsche is expensive work. A lot of manual work and specialized employees are required. “Each sound must be rated as suitable for many different surfaces and materials.
In short, the color application has to be perfect, ”explains Boris Abanbrink, director of exclusive manufacture, limited series and Porsche options.
“For this reason, we have produced an exclusive process from serial production. This causes customers to benefit from exceptionally high color quality in addition to the large number of nuances.”
The main plant of Stuttgart-Zuffenhaus is specialized in individual paintings. Schatzhäuser The largest collection of color samples in Porsche and prototypes that were painted with the color for the sample program.
There is also a colored mixed bench in which the painter experts with millimeter precision combine the desired tones for the 911 and Taycan models from several ten components.
Each lot is divided into two color boats, for the body and for the complementary parts. The surfaces of the vehicle that get it are mainly aluminum, plastic and fiber optic or carbon compounds.
“This mixture of materials and the various methods of application and drying temperatures must implement minor differences in the composition of the paintings for every component,” explains Abanbrink. “In short, you have to be identical regardless of the material.”
For this purpose, the so -called stack comparison samples are painted and used as a reference pattern in the final approval of the vehicle. In the case of a weather simulator named Wetter-O-Meter, the samples are exposed to the powerful ultraviolet light radiation for 3,200 hours. Theoretically, this corresponds to direct solar radiation in Florida and serves as a guarantee of color resistance.
In addition, the tests cover differently check Fire protection, stones and salt water effects. This is the general technical process, but the more individual it is a color, the more complex it is its implementation.
Paint an example: cult colors on request
The model program for color contains predefined tones, which have already been technically authorized by Porsche painter such as Maritime Blau, Ruby Star and Mint Green. In the Porsche community, these paintings of the nineties are considered a cult.
The offer is very different and depends on the area and the production system. For 718, 911 and Taycan can be selected from more than 130 additional paintings. With Panamera, Macan and Cayenne, these are more than 50 options.
Painting is available as a configuration for new cars and a delay within a delivery period of about three months compared to serial colors. For individualized people according to the customer’s request, it takes even more.
Painting for example plus: custom image
As part of the special request program, there are always customers who have very personal expectations of their new painting color. In order to meet these exclusive requirements, Porsche continues to implement.
In Paint to Sample Plus you can choose practically with the overall freedom for new vehicles in areas 718, 911 and Taycan. For the factory -individualization a posteriori, ie vehicles that are already in customer properties, this is possible with all areas.
The procedure is to first deliver the sample with the desired color to a Porsche center. Everything can be imagined, from a handbag to a nail painting. This sample on Porsche and the review of the viability and the development of the color begins, which, depending on the difficulty, is usually delayed on average for nine months.
Experts work first in the formula and then create the sound based on the available color components. Next, the sound develops in several phases until it corresponds to the sample under different sources of lighting, such as: B. natural light or artificial light.
“Regardless of the sample that customers bring,” says Boris Abanbrink, “your expectations are clear and the final color must be the same.” Then the livelihood in the body and in the complementary parts are checked under real production conditions. In this sense, painting must of course also be identical in all substrates.
On the other hand, it is important to define the layer thickness that enables a color with a stable, reproducible and without errors, adds parentbrink. Before painting the customer of the customer, the corresponding sound is applied to at least one test body.
If the desired color of the sample is found accordingly, it is approved in coordination with the customer. Finally, a personalized name for color is selected. If it cannot be implemented in accordance with Porsche’s own quality standards, the company assumes the costs of viability.
Therefore, the variety of colors is huge and there is practically no limits to individual creativity. Either a cult color through the color to try the program or a sound that tries through color, creates a sport as a personal footprint as a digital footprint and therefore unmistakable as a lifestyle.
