red paint match

[lewdon]

Hi I'm a visitor from the S series forum. Has anyone bought touch up paint which is a good match for P420/KV52. I have searched the forums and checked the FAQs and I have had some excellent advice from Topton who I found here on the Wedges forum (We assume TVR will have used exactly the same colour for code KV52 on his 400SE as they did on my S2). He tells me that after much investigation he eventually had to send his fuelcap to Autopaints to get a good match. As there is nothing small enough to post on the S2 I propose to use a tank cutter to remove a disc from behind the front number plate to send as a sample. (Topton very kindly offered to lend me his fuelcap to use as a sample but I really don’t want to put him to the trouble or to risk the responsibility if it got lost or damaged in the post etc).
But before I start cutting bits off my car I thought it a good idea to have a last check with the accumulated wisdom on here in case someone has found a source for KV52, which actually matches the TVR paint, without having to send a sample. (I am in the process of Tcutting the existing paint so I hope fading will not be too much of an issue). Any advice will be very gratefully received.