Base coat
Base coat is the pigmented layer of automotive paint that carries the colour, applied between primer and clear coat in a respray.
What it means
Modern car paint is built in three layers: primer, base coat, clear coat. The base coat is the layer that gives the car its actual colour. It is sprayed in multiple thin passes after the primer has been applied and sanded smooth, then left to flash off briefly before the clear coat goes over the top. Base coats today are usually water-based or low-solvent solvent-based formulas, depending on the brand and local environmental standards. The base coat itself has very little gloss; most of the shine you see on a finished respray comes from the clear coat applied over it. Getting base coat colour right is the hardest part of any respray, which is why computerised colour matching against the existing panels is now standard practice in any quality bodyshop.
Why it matters in Singapore
Singapore conditions, particularly UV and humidity, slowly shift the colour of original factory paint over the years. A respray that uses the manufacturer's listed paint code without scanning the actual car will almost always end up a visibly different shade than the panels next to it. For Singapore owners, this means the colour-match step is more important than the application step itself. A perfect spray of the wrong shade looks worse than a mediocre spray of the right one.
How Revol Carz handles this
Revol Carz uses Spies Hecker base coat across every spray painting job, mixed against a digital scan of the existing car so the new paint matches the actual current colour rather than the original factory code. The mix is sprayed in our Italian Saima dust-free booth, then clear-coated and oven-baked.