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Hi . My 1985 Caravelle is in need of a touch up along the seams and I've tried to find the paint code without much luck. It's a fairly common orangy-yellow on the bottom and cream on top. Can anyone tell me the location of the paint code label and how to make sense of it. Also , any advice on where to get the paint and what to pay? some internet sites seem to be asking silly money for small amounts of paint. Is a VW specialist best, or will any auto repair be able to match the code?
Don't want it like new, just not hamerite spotty!
cheers
Tom

http://brick-yard.co.uk/VehicleSpecific ... colour.htm
you have to remember your van will.after all these years.be a different colour than when it left the factory.best get yourself to a auto paints outlet and let them match it for you...

Need to find paint code too......where???????ANYONE...

Thats great thank yu

R0B wrote:http://brick-yard.co.uk/VehicleSpecific ... colour.htm
you have to remember your van will.after all these years.be a different colour than when it left the factory.best get yourself to a auto paints outlet and let them match it for you...

Matching a paint by colour code aint gona match it, nor will going to paint shop. When you have colour code you have to do test cards one with 1 coat of paint, another with two and so on. Until you get best match to the eye. The more coats you apply the darker it becomes. Same goes for laquer (which magnifys the paint underneath). Also if you look at a car with plastic bumpers. Thats say 5 years old never been resprayed, plastics fade at a different speed to metals. There are colour matching machines out there. Back street sprayers don`t use them. Too expensive. It`s no good taking a plastic petrol cap cover to get colour for that reason. Wet paint is a diferent shade to dry as I`m sure you know. There are over 20 shades of ford diamond white. Not that paint supplier will tell you that.