Need some names of grey paint colours please...

[VinceFox]

Going to order the paint for a bike tank and want it in flat grey. Does anyone know specific names of manufacturer colours that i can look at? I'm thinking the sort of grey you could get nissan figaros in, but the more choices the better.

[Hugo a Gogo]

that dark flat grey that Audi TTs came in was called Nimbus Grey, Porsche do something similar

I thought it really looked good

edit: the old Austin/Morris colour was Dove Grey

[s m]

Ford - Flint / Mercury
Peugeot - Graphite / Winchester

[Hugo a Gogo]

http://www.pre67vw.com/colours/default.aspx?p=2&am...

[Derp]

BMW Space Grey

[VinceFox]

Thx chaps, had been leaning towards nissan lapis grey but want to exhaust all options. I think to really do what i need it to it needs to be a warm grey rather than a cool one, if that makes any sense..

That vw chip page has some very good colours on it.

[VinceFox]

Nimbus and aviator are both good too, but hard to judge in pics, the tone seems to change massively in different lighting.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I think pre-VW Skoda had a colour called "Implement Grey".

[jds32]

Audi nimbus grey.

[VinceFox]

Nimbus looks dead sharp with gloss black...

[Doofus]

Humbrol Battleship grey

[Funk]

Derp said:

BMW Space Grey

Indeed.

[PumpkinSteve]

VW must have changed Nimbus Grey, because I have a new Polo in Nimbus Grey and it's definitely metallic.

[A.J.M]

Land Rover have, Bonatti, and Orkney/stornaway grey.

Both nice shades.

[jds32]

Porsche sport classic grey. Or have a look at RAL colours http://www.ralcolor.com/

[Dusty964]

Range rover classic-

Westminster grey

[VinceFox]

I cant really get away with it being a metallic, it really needs to be flat.

[CarlT]

Fontana Grey - an old VW colour

[jds32]

PumpkinSteve said:

VW must have changed Nimbus Grey, because I have a new Polo in Nimbus Grey and it's definitely metallic.

Nimbus grey was originally an Audi color. Alot of vw group cars have the same colour name but are completely different.

[carl_w]

Hugo a Gogo said:

that dark flat grey that Audi TTs came in was called Nimbus Grey, Porsche do something similar

I thought it was called Dolphin Grey.