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26th November 2014, 10:28 | #11 |
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I may get court-martialed for this but if the colour from the body shop swatch is accurate then does it really matter what shade of blue it is?
I know we all like to know the accurate colour of our cars but there are so many variations to paint shades that even if you buy the correct colour touch up it stands a chance of being wrong, the only way to get an accurate match for a touch up is for a specialist paint blender to look at your car and match manually to a mixed palette. I had a new VW van not long back and reversed it into a post I brought the colour match to the vin plate, a simple white colour or so I thought ... the same colour had a different shade depending on a lot of factors apparently, luckily there is a very good paint specialist about a mile from me and they matched it by blending paint and testing it to the van - perfect match in the end and to this day I still don't know what colour it was |
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26th November 2014, 11:32 | #13 |
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I remember a video call Icelandic Blue.
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26th November 2014, 12:45 | #14 |
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I remember one called The Blue Lagoon, but that's a horse of a different colour
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An interesting site for the history of Rover /MG paint schemes
http://www.mgfcar.de/vin/mgfcolours.htm
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I have a Rover 75 in JEL and need a RH wing.
I can get one in JBH, but am afraid there will be a difference in colour What do you think? |
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Yeh the colour is very different.
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Too true trikey, they look the same if viewed separately, but put them together and it's like night and day................
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Yep, spot the difference
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