quick question
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dimebucker
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- Location: Plymouth and Sligo, Ireland
can you get original e30 paint from a bmw dealer, or do you have to try and match it???
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mrLEE30
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you can go to Grevens (if theyt are sitll Plymouths dealer!) and they will have it. open your bonnet and on the passenger wing will be a sticker with the cars colour, there will be a 3 digit paint code on the sticker
alternatively you can take this code to any auto paint supplier and they will be able to supply you with paint.
If my memory serves me well (and it was ten years ago sinsce i left plym) there is a paint suppliers if you carry on down union street toward (tamar ferry) stay on the road till it comes to the area where they make those expensive boats (Stonehouse??), here the road bends right and close to this bend is a motorfactors that supplied me paint (they even put it in a spray can for me!)
alternatively you can take this code to any auto paint supplier and they will be able to supply you with paint.
If my memory serves me well (and it was ten years ago sinsce i left plym) there is a paint suppliers if you carry on down union street toward (tamar ferry) stay on the road till it comes to the area where they make those expensive boats (Stonehouse??), here the road bends right and close to this bend is a motorfactors that supplied me paint (they even put it in a spray can for me!)
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dimebucker
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- Location: Plymouth and Sligo, Ireland
hahaha...
thanks very much, didnt expect to get such a detailed answer!
very helpful
thanks very much, didnt expect to get such a detailed answer!
very helpful
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Graeme_W
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just to add to that, most colours have what are called varients.
These will be for example you have a blue colour, the standard colour/shade is called standard shade suprisingly, then you get variations of that colour (varients) and they will come with different letters so say L will be for lighter, you may have a few lighter shades so L1, L2, L3 etc or you could have a G which is greener and so on.
Its a real art telling what colours you are missing or what needs to be reduced and only comes with experience but most paint suppliers will have spray out cards/chips with the shades on and you can put them against the bodywork and see if they match.
But be warned, alot of paint manufactureres print the spray out paint chips so can not always guarentee that it will be exactly the same and also varies on the application of the paint to the colour you get.
Maybe a bit to indepth but there my 2p`s worth.
These will be for example you have a blue colour, the standard colour/shade is called standard shade suprisingly, then you get variations of that colour (varients) and they will come with different letters so say L will be for lighter, you may have a few lighter shades so L1, L2, L3 etc or you could have a G which is greener and so on.
Its a real art telling what colours you are missing or what needs to be reduced and only comes with experience but most paint suppliers will have spray out cards/chips with the shades on and you can put them against the bodywork and see if they match.
But be warned, alot of paint manufactureres print the spray out paint chips so can not always guarentee that it will be exactly the same and also varies on the application of the paint to the colour you get.
Maybe a bit to indepth but there my 2p`s worth.