Flat clear over metallic paint

i want to paint the hhr a 2tone with black like the wheels and the stock color on top. then use flat clear
 
i dont really want to pull the whole car apart, so would it look bad for the black on the bottom of the 2tone to not carrying into the jams?
 
anyone have some pics of metallics with flat clear. i want to make sure it doesnt look bad or unfinished.

wouldnt it pretty much look like silver before you spray the clear?

personally i don't think it would look "bad"... it's not the "right" way to do things but then again its your car.   and i got a pic somewhere of an old pickup truck i shot down in texas, it was a metallic blue with a satin clear. it reminded me of the Hot Rod Flats blue, but only with a lil more kick. looked sick as hell, and i honestly think the silver and black would look sick being satin. just make sure there is a lot of metallic in the silver, if not it'll prob end up looking gray and almost like primer... 

woooooooooooooooooooooooooow  dougy fresh, who the hell are you to tell him its not the right way?as far as the 2 tone NOT carring into the door jam, look at Most factory vehicles, they all do that!fresh boy is part right however, you do need more metallic than normal for it to show up with the satin finishfor it to come out best, i recommend you spray some test panels first to get the right finish your after

my bike was supposed to be a flat clear, but i dont think they mixed it right. when i sprayed it, it came out more of a semigloss so the metallic shows through good on it. when i do the car i want it to look like what base coat with no clear looks like after flashingill just have to spray some test panels like suggested. when i go to get the clear i think ill just get the flatening agent seperate so i can mix it how i want. i have pretty much decided if i do paint it i might as well do the jams. 

 ---------------------------------------------Originally posted by tukn22inchwoooooooooooooooooooooooooow  dougy fresh, who the hell are you to tell him its not the right way?as far as the 2 tone NOT carring into the door jam, look at Most factory vehicles, they all do that!fresh boy is part right however, you do need more metallic than normal for it to show up with the satin finishfor it to come out best, i recommend you spray some test panels first to get the right finish your after--------------------------------------------- Wow, i never said i was anyone special. Nore did i tell him there is a paint bible that says it's a sin to skip out the door jams... notice the "quotes" around the word "right". but even furthermore, you went on to compare a custom 2 tone paint job to a factory painted 2 tone, how are those even on the same page? Just because a dealership sends a truck off for a 2 tone and doesn't want to pay a premium to have it jam'd, doesn't mean they've set the standard for the "right" way to paint a ride. I myself along with many others will agree that to paint the jams would be considered a "right" way of doing things, but unfortunetly it doesn't always get done due to whatever reason. but on the same nore i'm not here to say that if a car isn't jam'd that i'm going to slander them and say they did it wrong, it's just prefered...  

Jam it. If you plan on keeping the paint on there for a while and take it to shows that way, That little extra bit of work will add a lot of detail to it. Make it look more finished. I had a car repainted a different color and didn't get the jams. Later I got the jams done. All the body shop did was take my seats out, fold the carpet back and masked off everything. Then they hung paper on the inside of the door area to keep the over spray out of the interior that much more. Came out great. They didn't get any paint where it wasn't supposed to be.

it should be easy on the hhr cause there is plastic trim all around the door that comes out easy.i wasnt gonna do the jams at first because i didnt want to take the doors off. when i did my ranger i had trouble with overspray in the jams. i cleared the jams the closed the doors and cleared the rest of the truck. i ended up having to buff out the overspray. but on flat clear you cant really buff it without it starting to turn glossy.any suggestions on how to keep that from happening?

paint your jambs first, then mask them off if your concerned with overspray.

ok thanks. i should be able to mask it from the weatherstripping in. that way there is no line in the clear