Hey does anyone know how i can find out what colour my car is ????

They had stickers in the spare wheel well but most have fallen off or been painted over

Being abit less criptic and telling us what year and what the colour it was originally will help

Depending what model bug its pointless looking at overseas colour charts cos aus used their own colours, shared with nissans at the time

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Originally posted by Joel Depending what model bug its pointless looking at overseas colour charts cos aus used their own colours, shared with nissans at the time

its a 71 super but it not an original colour???

You could go to a panel shop and get them to match it.

Look here for the original Australian Dulux paint colours and codes:

http://www.clubvw.org.au/colour_identification.htm 

Look at out of the way places for the original paint - inside the front bonnet and front boot, inside the doors etc, places that would have missed a respray.

Yes Volkswagen Australia used Nissan colours after 1968.

You'll be able to find the original colour somewhere like back of the dashboard, under the rear seat etc

Colour range wasnt too extensive with 71 supers

If you want to make the colour to what it is painted now, not what it was originally.

Take the petrol flap off, and take it to an automotive paint specialist that has a spectograph to find colours. Not a lot of paint suppliers have them as they are expensive. The machine will analyse the paint on the petrol flap and produce a colour code that is as close as possible in the computer database.

The code found will not be 1971 VW, or any other old colours. It will come up with a modern code and formula available in the modern paint systems available now.

Lead used to be up to 30% in paint, and it is gone now, so colour formulations are very different due to there being no lead oxide tinters available. It would be like trying to buy leaded petrol. Just cant be done.

The modern code may be something obscure like Citroen 2004, or Daimler 1998, or SAAB 2009. Who knows until you go through the process, but at least you will have a code and formula to order any future paint.

The colour made will not be exact, and will still have to be matched.

Yeh spare wheel well.I think maybe on com plate as well.
Post a few pics ,i know a lot of folks on here will help to narrow it down.
Good Luck.

71 super beetle

Do like Helbus suggested and take the fuel flap or numberplate light to a paint place and they will be able to computer match it.

Works well, I had to get some paint mixed up I woulda sworn was candy apple red, turned out to be a citroen colour so you just never know.

Although it looks very suspicuously like a Commodore colour called Sherbrook green that was around VR or VS

awsome thax