Florecent lighting..Question

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rundatrack

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Does it really show everything...I mean there are times that you think things are fine under certain lighting and you go in the sunlight and your like :beat .....

I am getting three 8 footers for my garage and I wanted to know if the car looks good under that lighting then the sunlight will not have me wanted to jump off a bridge...?
 
I think the general rule is more light will allow you to get a clearer picture of the actual surface of the paint. For some reason whenever I go to the gas station at night my truck looks flawless, although I'm not sure if the lights are fluorescent or halogen, but I suppose they're both a white-ish light so it wouldn't be a big difference.
 
The more light the better, IMO. This past summer I rewired and added lights to our detatched 2 car garage. There is a total of 9 4ft. doubles, 18 bulbs in all. Great environment to work in, shows all.
 
I don't think they show everything. Sometimes, when I had my black car, it would look perfect under all of my fluorescents and then under my halogen work lights or the sun I could see things I missed in the garage. There is supposed to be a certain bulb that works great though for fluorescent fixtures but I forget what it was called now.
 
Different lights will show different things, sunlight shows swirls, flourescent shows scratches, night makes cars look amazing. I like night, but having each kind of light available really helps.
 
What Bob said is correct they don't show everything. I have 6 twin 8 footers in my 2 car garage and also incadescents. The incadescents will show swirls that I don't see with the florecents. You can't just rely on florecents for spotting all flaws.
 
I have also seen a special light used whenever I took my truck to the dealership when I first got it because it seemed to have heavy scratches on the door (there weren't; I was just paranoid). The guy had this pen light with a really bright, although not white, light on it that highlighted all the imperfections on the paint.
 
Bob said:
I don't think they show everything. Sometimes, when I had my black car, it would look perfect under all of my fluorescents and then under my halogen work lights or the sun I could see things I missed in the garage. There is supposed to be a certain bulb that works great though for fluorescent fixtures but I forget what it was called now.
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Hopefully the person at home depot knows the light that your talkiong about..even though I know that they are going to yes me to death :angry :angry
 
rundatrack said:
Hopefully the person at home depot knows the light that your talkiong about..even though I know that they are going to yes me to death :angry :angry
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I just tried searchign and can not find it now. If I do I will let you know.
 
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