What paint colour 1994 400 HC
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It's on the ID plate under the bonnet:
In this case P422-5WN3B = Imperial Blue
Some paint codes here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
In this case P422-5WN3B = Imperial Blue
Some paint codes here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Thanks Miniman - I appreciate your mega quick reply.
Mine is: P422 PT17B
From a search and author BarkyChoc:: R2747 Avus Bleu (Blue) -2002 - PT17B BMW 276
Looks like it is a BMW colour which is great - hopefully it is still available. I need to respray the whole car with the doors shut and want to use the same original colour so the engine bay and inside of the doors etc remains the same. I dont fancy messing about with removing doors etc
Mine is: P422 PT17B
From a search and author BarkyChoc:: R2747 Avus Bleu (Blue) -2002 - PT17B BMW 276
Looks like it is a BMW colour which is great - hopefully it is still available. I need to respray the whole car with the doors shut and want to use the same original colour so the engine bay and inside of the doors etc remains the same. I dont fancy messing about with removing doors etc
Spray with the doors shut? On a TVR? Are you sure? Who is painting it?
Any decent bodyshop is going to remove the doors on a TVR, paint them off the car, and then mask the door apertures. How do you paint the door edges with them closed and if you do, you will get overspray into the door apertures, and when you open the doors there will be a mess.
It would be like painting a door in a house when it was closed. No decorator ever does that.
As for the paint codes, do they really matter now. Most body-shops just scan the existing and then mix to that. It might be a BMW colour, but it wasn't painted by BMW in a BMW paint-shop, and it won't have been the same brand of paint the BMW used either. The name may have remained the same, but the paint colour may have changed over the years.
You need to match to what you have on the car and what you are used to seeing, i.e. TVR's interpretation of Avus Blue, modified by wear and sunlight fading, otherwise you may end up with a colour that is Avus Blue, but not what you are expecting.
Any decent bodyshop is going to remove the doors on a TVR, paint them off the car, and then mask the door apertures. How do you paint the door edges with them closed and if you do, you will get overspray into the door apertures, and when you open the doors there will be a mess.
It would be like painting a door in a house when it was closed. No decorator ever does that.
As for the paint codes, do they really matter now. Most body-shops just scan the existing and then mix to that. It might be a BMW colour, but it wasn't painted by BMW in a BMW paint-shop, and it won't have been the same brand of paint the BMW used either. The name may have remained the same, but the paint colour may have changed over the years.
You need to match to what you have on the car and what you are used to seeing, i.e. TVR's interpretation of Avus Blue, modified by wear and sunlight fading, otherwise you may end up with a colour that is Avus Blue, but not what you are expecting.
Just a word of caution ....
The body code on the under bonnet plate is not always correct, mine wasn't.
A decent bodyshop will get a sample of the paint and spray up some test panels for you.
Not sure of the official name, but they look like this.
https://www.paintwithpearl.com/shop-custom-paint/s...
When I had my car resprayed the bodyshop did several with differing amounts of flake and different lacquers.
The body code on the under bonnet plate is not always correct, mine wasn't.
A decent bodyshop will get a sample of the paint and spray up some test panels for you.
Not sure of the official name, but they look like this.
https://www.paintwithpearl.com/shop-custom-paint/s...
When I had my car resprayed the bodyshop did several with differing amounts of flake and different lacquers.
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