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 nath
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 08:50 AM |
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paint?
Hey does anyone know how i can find out what colour my car is ???? 
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 11:02 AM |
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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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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 11:37 AM |
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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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Would that have been Datsun's back then?
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 12:10 PM |
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its a 71 super but it not an original colour???
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 12:12 PM |
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You could go to a panel shop and get them to match it.
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 01:05 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 01:23 PM |
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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
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 07:15 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 27th, 2010 at 09:50 PM |
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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.
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| posted on October 28th, 2010 at 01:26 PM |
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71 super beetle
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| posted on October 28th, 2010 at 03:13 PM |
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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
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| posted on October 29th, 2010 at 09:09 AM |
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awsome thax
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