m4ever:
Whoopsy:
m4ever:
I heard recently that Porsche is planning to outsource PTS painting , anyone heard the same? (there is a precedent with very few 911 R which were painted outside, one of them was Dr. Piech 911 R).
It was never ever fully in-house.
For some quasi-PTS, like the optional Black/Yellow/Orange on the 911R, those are painted in-house as they are the regular production colours.
But for colours that are truly to sample, they always source it outside, easier for a outside paint shop to paint the body, bumpers and whatever trim needed to be painted the same colour at the same time than trying to match the colour from different suppliers of parts that were painted at different times.
Some out of range old colours are also painted outside for the same reason. Even when there is a strict formula, different pain shop will mix up the paint slightly differently, my Rivera Blue might be slightly off yours. One reason why it's a bitch to colour match colours after a collision and need repaint, the panels never matches completely. Heck, I have seen a Lava Orange GT3RS with the bumper slightly off vs the hood and that car came straight from the factory brand new.
One reason I love black, it will ALWAYS match! 
Not even white can be matched perfectly.
Thanks Whoopsy very interesting . When you refer to colors "truly to sample" are you referring to the ones on the Colors to Sample approved list or to the ones that need the feasibility test ?
As in you wife's favourite lipstick colour, your soiled underwear's hue, or whatever people dream of and wants to paint their car that colour. Or colours from other manufacturers for that matters. Porsche won't have the formula and has to be mixed from scratch.
The other so called PTS are almost always historic Porsche colours. Porsche have the formula for sure, but some are from the old days with solvent-based paint which are different than current water-based paint. They would come out very differently. Especially on modern car with 5-6 or more different material surfaces.
Some of those are already approved, Porsche had tested them and got on the approve list, and can be painted at the in house paint shop on the line.
I believe Porsche also has added few individual paint booth built to do some special jobs. See the videos on the Exclusive Series Turbo S, they are painting the golden yellow in-house for all the parts.
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