PTS Colour Choice
Discussion
Personally, if I was choosing any colour for a car, That I intended to use and enjoy - PTS or standard - I would want a colour that looked good when dirty, or at least with a patina of use.
Some of these colours look vivid under showroom lighting, or, in “look I’ve just had my car detailed” pics, but unless it’s going to be a ‘garage queen’, medium tone colours that don’t reflect back too much depth, are a safer bet. Otherwise every finger mark, dust scuff, mud splash, surface squirl….. shows through.
I’ve done my time with black, navy blue and dark green metallics, to know the frustration. The best cars I’ve owned have been the ones I’ve wanted to use the most, not the ones that I’ve cleaned the most.
Some of these colours look vivid under showroom lighting, or, in “look I’ve just had my car detailed” pics, but unless it’s going to be a ‘garage queen’, medium tone colours that don’t reflect back too much depth, are a safer bet. Otherwise every finger mark, dust scuff, mud splash, surface squirl….. shows through.
I’ve done my time with black, navy blue and dark green metallics, to know the frustration. The best cars I’ve owned have been the ones I’ve wanted to use the most, not the ones that I’ve cleaned the most.
Porsche really need to change the name of these paints. They are not really paint to sample at all. Paint to sample is what they call paint to sample plus where you can take in your favourite bathroom tile etc and they will match it. This option should just be called extended paint range or something similar as BMW and MB do with Individual and Designo. There is nothing sample about it.
craigjm said:
Porsche really need to change the name of these paints. They are not really paint to sample at all. Paint to sample is what they call paint to sample plus where you can take in your favourite bathroom tile etc and they will match it. This option should just be called extended paint range or something similar as BMW and MB do with Individual and Designo. There is nothing sample about it.
But the colours have been derived from that PTS process. Each one came from someone’s favourite bathroom tile (or whatever), therefore as a library name PTS seems perfectly apt and from a marketing POV the term has a far more cachet than ‘extended range’Extended range! Lol.
julian987R said:
craigjm said:
Porsche really need to change the name of these paints. They are not really paint to sample at all. Paint to sample is what they call paint to sample plus where you can take in your favourite bathroom tile etc and they will match it. This option should just be called extended paint range or something similar as BMW and MB do with Individual and Designo. There is nothing sample about it.
But the colours have been derived from that PTS process. Each one came from someone’s favourite bathroom tile (or whatever), therefore as a library name PTS seems perfectly apt and from a marketing POV the term has a far more cachet than ‘extended range’Extended range! Lol.
julian987R said:
But the colours have been derived from that PTS process. Each one came from someone’s favourite bathroom tile (or whatever), therefore as a library name PTS seems perfectly apt and from a marketing POV the term has a far more cachet than ‘extended range’
Extended range! Lol.
What makes you say the colours came from someone’s bathroom tiles/wife’s underwear/sunset on the eve of their wedding/your baby’s first poo etc Julian ?Extended range! Lol.
My understanding is the same as Craig’s, that being they’re nothing more than period colours that Porsche have painted cars before, but no longer offered as part of their “standard” range. Rather they’ve made them available by “special request” and at a premium ...
Slippydiff said:
julian987R said:
But the colours have been derived from that PTS process. Each one came from someone’s favourite bathroom tile (or whatever), therefore as a library name PTS seems perfectly apt and from a marketing POV the term has a far more cachet than ‘extended range’
Extended range! Lol.
What makes you say the colours came from someone’s bathroom tiles/wife’s underwear/sunset on the eve of their wedding/your baby’s first poo etc Julian ?Extended range! Lol.
My understanding is the same as Craig’s, that being they’re nothing more than period colours that Porsche have painted cars before, but no longer offered as part of their “standard” range. Rather they’ve made them available by “special request” and at a premium ...
Nogaro blue is a relatively new addition to the PTS list. It was put through the validation process at the request of a customer a couple of years ago.
This is my understanding of PTS. Someone asks for a new colour “to sample”, they pay for Porsche to do the validation of the colour, if it’s a success it gets added to the PTS list and made available to anyone that is prepared to pay for (and wait for) PTS.
This is my understanding of PTS. Someone asks for a new colour “to sample”, they pay for Porsche to do the validation of the colour, if it’s a success it gets added to the PTS list and made available to anyone that is prepared to pay for (and wait for) PTS.
paralla said:
Nogaro blue is a relatively new addition to the PTS list. It was put through the validation process at the request of a customer a couple of years ago.
This is my understanding of PTS. Someone asks for a new colour “to sample”, they pay for Porsche to do the validation of the colour, if it’s a success it gets added to the PTS list and made available to anyone that is prepared to pay for (and wait for) PTS.
indeedy. My understanding too, however it seems this PTS range is perhaps more of a release of historic colours and not solely as a result of that bespoke process. This is my understanding of PTS. Someone asks for a new colour “to sample”, they pay for Porsche to do the validation of the colour, if it’s a success it gets added to the PTS list and made available to anyone that is prepared to pay for (and wait for) PTS.
julian987R said:
paralla said:
Nogaro blue is a relatively new addition to the PTS list. It was put through the validation process at the request of a customer a couple of years ago.
This is my understanding of PTS. Someone asks for a new colour “to sample”, they pay for Porsche to do the validation of the colour, if it’s a success it gets added to the PTS list and made available to anyone that is prepared to pay for (and wait for) PTS.
indeedy. My understanding too, however it seems this PTS range is perhaps more of a release of historic colours and not solely as a result of that bespoke process. This is my understanding of PTS. Someone asks for a new colour “to sample”, they pay for Porsche to do the validation of the colour, if it’s a success it gets added to the PTS list and made available to anyone that is prepared to pay for (and wait for) PTS.
craigjm said:
You get asked when they match a paint to your wives knickers and whether you want it to be available to others. If you agree to it being available to others you get a small royalty each time someone buys it.
LOL - This line cracked me up...Also, aren't some of the colours other manufacturers have created. I'm sure a few in the Porsche PTS palette are BMW colours?
Schuey_911 said:
craigjm said:
You get asked when they match a paint to your wives knickers and whether you want it to be available to others. If you agree to it being available to others you get a small royalty each time someone buys it.
LOL - This line cracked me up...Also, aren't some of the colours other manufacturers have created. I'm sure a few in the Porsche PTS palette are BMW colours?
I do wonder what the most bizarre item is that they have ever been given to paint match to
apparently you can do leather to sample too craigjm said:
Yes they are but they will have been paint to sample plus first ie I want the Porsche the same colour as my M3 etc.
I do wonder what the most bizarre item is that they have ever been given to paint match to apparently you can do leather to sample too
Ah ok, that makes sense. I do wonder what the most bizarre item is that they have ever been given to paint match to
apparently you can do leather to sample too The brown ones are a bit suspect, one of them could be someones skidmark that he's getting royalties for! LOL
Nogaro blue is an Audi colour, first used on the RS 2 iirc.
It was subsequently requested/used on a 993 GT2 and renamed Audi GT blue by Porsche :
https://www.gtclassics.co.uk/porsche-993-gt2-3/
It was subsequently requested/used on a 993 GT2 and renamed Audi GT blue by Porsche :
https://www.gtclassics.co.uk/porsche-993-gt2-3/
Schuey_911 said:
craigjm said:
Yes they are but they will have been paint to sample plus first ie I want the Porsche the same colour as my M3 etc.
I do wonder what the most bizarre item is that they have ever been given to paint match to apparently you can do leather to sample too
Ah ok, that makes sense. I do wonder what the most bizarre item is that they have ever been given to paint match to
apparently you can do leather to sample too The brown ones are a bit suspect, one of them could be someones skidmark that he's getting royalties for! LOL
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