What colour for my e30

[ed325i]

Going for the euro look and its nearly time for the re spray but I am not sure if to keep the lach silver or go for some diffrent. I like the beige the primer is down the side.
What colour do you think ?

[Sharabi]

What color will the interior be, as this makes a big difference.
If light then go for a darker colour.
if dark go for a lighter colour.

[ed325i]

The interior is black leather.

[Giggz]

Blood red or jet black! Im going for 'euro look' to.Going for black myself with black leathers. Would love to change the interior with grey leathers though!

[ed325i]

Blood red or jet black

Nice colours but I want somthing diffrent e30's come in them colours.
Got any pics of your car?

[hairypete]

hmmm, like i could possibly comment on this! Lmfao!!!! but try something a bit bifferent, go on try it, you might like it! hehe,

afraid im not up on the euro look, but im sure whatever you go for it will be a killer ride. personally what i went for with mine is black, but with a bit of something else in there for when the light catches it. my sig pic is a very rare sight! hardley ever see it showin its colours off that much, but most of the time it does just look black. but as you turn a corner it glints off a bit of violet or green and does make people look back a bit harder!

but i know its not to every zoners taste, and its not the look your going for, so what the hell was all this about? hmm, i think it was a stab at " dont follow a trend, set one!" if you get me.

[TW166Y]

calypso red

[dazleeds]

pea green mettalic

[cliffybabe]

Got to be black

[ed325i]

I like flip paint but it will cost me to much to have sprayed. Nissan done some primera gt's with it

[ed325i]

Sorry like this

[TW166Y]

Sorry like this

in a strange way, thats quite nice.... R*E*T*R*O

[dazleeds]

Sorry like this

errrr noooooo

i meant a bit darker
something like this maybe

[mattG]

white pearl

[ed325i]

i meant a bit darker
something like this maybe

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I like that

[dazleeds]

i meant a bit darker
something like this maybe

I like that [/quote]

me too mate
betty looks the knackers in that colour shame its shopped

but oneday i will build a beast and get her sprayed that colour one day

always had a thing for pea green type colours

cue billgates who hates that colour on an e30

[bmwe30mtech]

Going for black myself with black leathers.

An awsome combination if i may say .

Strangely i like that green also daz!

Maybe metallic dark red, not many e30's this colour.(so i dont have any pics!)

[hairypete]

lol, likin the green dude! that is awesome!

and mine isnt totally flipped paint, its just the base black, with a dusting over with a couple of pearls, bit more subtle i though than going totally pearl. but thats just me, subtle with a little surprise here and ther!

[dazleeds]

if i didnt have a tech 1
and just a normal 325 i would do the green but dnt wanna spoil the sports originality

black and black leather
mmmmm

will have the black leather to go in tonite yet again lol
second black leather interior in last 3months lol

hairypete realy like the look of your green too

[E30_Aza]

im with ti66y on this one and say calypso red!!!! that colour is bad ass.
doesnt have to be the standard red, you could do a little someting to it with some silver flake!!!!!

[ed325i]

If you go on this site and click on pale yellow (primrose) what do you think ? my car is a cab so it has a black hood.

http://www.armfield.freeserve.co.uk/car/car_colour.htm

[dazleeds]

If you go on this site and click on pale yellow (primrose) what do you think ? my car is a cab so it has a black hood.

http://www.armfield.freeserve.co.uk/car/car_colour.htm

thats just nasty mate

sorry but i really dnt like that primrose

[ed325i]

If you go on this site and click on pale yellow (primrose) what do you think ? my car is a cab so it has a black hood.

http://www.armfield.freeserve.co.uk/car/car_colour.htm

thats just nasty mate

sorry but i really dnt like that primrose

So I take it you don't like it.

What about the lichfield green ?

[dazleeds]

If you go on this site and click on pale yellow (primrose) what do you think ? my car is a cab so it has a black hood.

http://www.armfield.freeserve.co.uk/car/car_colour.htm

thats just nasty mate

sorry but i really dnt like that primrose

So I take it you don't like it.

What about the lichfield green ?

to be honest mate
theres not a single colour on that page i like

dnt think any of them are really an e30 colour

but its not my car fella
so im happy to be proved wrong
but they really ate classic car colours ie 60s/70s etc

[ed325i]

The colour makes the car so I need to get it right. Going to get some colour charts from dealers to see what I like.

[gareth]

something subtle is the way to go imho. silver / anthracite / black. it won't date unlike a colour that seems very cool at the time of respraying.

the biggest thing to ensure is that all the door shuts and underbottet areas etc (inc behind grille) are the same colour or it will ruin the car. i assume with your M30, you'll be showing people under the bonnet a lot and old non-matching paint will look sooooo bad.

this is why i'd most likely stick with a fresh respray in the original colour (silver?) as it's classy already. unless cost is no object of course but for the extra money, i'd spend more on the rest of the car and driving it!

[e36boy]

I was gonna say white pearl but MATTG beat me to it, Would look cool with the black leather.

[ed325i]

What about this

[placey]

ed

gareth has made most sense here i reckon. unless you're back to a shell a colour change is very difficult to pull off completely, so i'd suggest sticking to lachs.

or else cadburys purple. bmw's take on this was burgundy red matallic - a rare but very beautiful colour. (check out dave waldon's hartge for an example) and it could have been on your car from the factory - bonus.

paul

[dark_sounds]

placey,,, do you have a picture of this burgandy to hand??

sorry off topic..

[placey]

no i don't. dave waldron's hartge was featured in total bmw october 2004 and he is a zone (at least was) a zone member. do you want me to take the mag along to gaydon?

paul

[Giggz]

Blood red or jet black

Nice colours but I want somthing diffrent e30's come in them colours.
Got any pics of your car?

Yeah i know what you mean keeping it subtle is the best way forward i reckon. But its your car dude so whatever takes your fancy really. Im sure you will make the right choice.

I have not got any decent pics of my car at the moment as its being resprayed AGAIN as we speak but i will be posting up pics in my 'respray in progress part II' thread.

[E30_Aza]

if you wanna go a different colour that stands out i would suggest checkin out 'HOUSE OF COLOR' .
an american company that do some gorgeous colours. my old man sprayed his harley candy apple red with some extra fancy bits. but they are a fantastic company. they are the paints that they use in the likes of american hot rod the program. worth checkin out mate

[dazleeds]

if you wanna go a different colour that stands out i would suggest checkin out 'HOUSE OF COLOR' .
an american company that do some gorgeous colours. my old man sprayed his harley candy apple red with some extra fancy bits. but they are a fantastic company. they are the paints that they use in the likes of american hot rod the program. worth checkin out mate

also check out

http://www.alsacorp.com/paints.htm

youl be amazed by some of there paints

[eldarvanyar]

What about estoril blue?