A method for preparing a coating material composition or a precursor thereof that can be used in an automobile industry, the method comprising:
- (1) weighing out all required components for preparing the coating material composition or the precursor thereof into a container suitable for weighing them out by means of at least one metering valve of a gravimetric metering system,
- wherein the required components are mixed by means of at least one stirring body throughout step (1) and a continuous adaptation of a position of the at least one stirring body to a respective filling level within the container takes place throughout step (1), the respective filling level being predetermined by an amount and number of the required components that are weighed out into the container and the position of the at least one stirring body corresponding to a height of the at least one stirring body within the container, calculated from a bottom of the container.