What colour?

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What colour?

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Sorry for the daft question but how do I find out what colour my car is? Ok I know it's grey but I need a few rattle cans made up.

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There should be a sticker inside the boot with a bunch of codes on it (white paper with black text). The paint code will be two letters, a number and a letter e.g. LA7Y. If you have the original handbooks it is sometimes duplicated in the service book.

There are a few different shades of grey. This site might help if you can't find your sticker:

http://www.cybertects.co.uk/scirocco/pa ... /index.php


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Thats just what I needed to know. Thank you :-)


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Word of warning, don't use Halfords for mixing rattle cans, I tried once and the colour was so far out.
I got some from here in the end and the 4 different colours for different cars I've used have been spot on.
http://auto-paint.co.uk/carpaint/


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Cheers Mark, I try to void Halfruads if I can so I wont be going there for paint. I now know mine is Pewter grey so I'll use that site you recommended.


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To be fair to them, the quality of the custom mixed paint from halfords was very good, and not too bad on price if you've got a trade card. Just a shame the colour was a bit off
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It's a bit hard to see on my computer but linking the two tone door you have there :-D


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