What colour (white) is my camper

[JerryMaidstone]

Hi all, I have a 1984 T25. It is painted white with a slight creamy tint. I cannot find any paint code on a vin plate to obtain the original paint code. Does anyone know what the name/code would be. Many thanks

[jrt]

Have a look under the passenger seat for a sticker
David

[JerryMaidstone]

Ok thanks, I will look when it's daylight

[jrt]

It was the only place I found the colour code for my van [Pastel White vw L90d] 1983 1.9 Autosleeper wbx
David

[a1winchester]

Remember that Pastel White comes in various shades of cream depending on the year of the van. Best to get it colour matched if you want an exact match I reckon.

[123-jn]

Hi, when you say different shades depending on the year are you saying L90D is not always L90D or do all the shades have their own number?

[New Kentish Campers]

The majority of car paints have different shades. It's much down to the mines used for the various pigments used in the paint ( I was told this by a paint rep.many years ago when I had my own bodyshop and asked the same question)

Usually, the parent shade is No.1, and the variants go no.2, and so on. We used to mix a 10th of a litre of each variant when there was more than one shade and sprayed them on special cards and then compared those to get a decent match. We then kept those in a large folder so we had our own colour library that was built up over the years and that saved us a lot of money in not mixing incorrect colours.

Paint factors should have a colour swatch - or perhaps a local bodyshop with their own colour library like ours - with the various shades on so as to get a match. Best clean off a section of the original paint on your an, like the inner A post for example, with some cleaning compound and get the colour compared to that.

[peteandnero]

Hi from my internet research I think I'm right in saying the L90D paint colour changed dranamaticly around 1979/80 ish. It went from a buttery creamy white to a much more green tinged white more similar to vw alpine white. Halfords sell vw "pastel white" in rattle cans and it is the older version. I had this catch me out having done a 50% body respray a few years ago after ordering the L90D paint mail order and have spent 4 years with a two tone van. Actually 3 tone as the sliding door was a later L90D but a slight variant from the main body. Kentish Camprs suggest the best approach and get a match.
Pete