Door panel repainted

I left the door trim panel and interior trims off, after I had fixed the sliding door, as I wanted to respray the damaged trim and could do that in my temporary spray booth (back bedroom!)

I'd already ordered a batch of paint and was surprised that it came as a base and top coat plus lacquer. It is a pearl paint finish, and apparently body shops hate trying to match it, so I wasn't holding out high hopes for how it will look, although it will definitely be better than the scratched affair shown below. Basically, because the rollers were missing off the slider, it was folding in on itself and scraping on the paint (for a long time by the look of it.)

I rubbed all of the scratched area down and feathered it in then applied grey primer, base coat, top coat and lacquer. It looked good - nice and smooth.

Refitting the panel the following day showed that it's not really a great match to the 23 year old faded paint, but it's actually not as bad in real life as it looks here. I may put a "van life" type grapic on it at some point to disguise it a bit. Or I might not be arsed!!