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sbm paint

Post by sockett 1962 ][ » Sat Jun 04, 2022 9:05 am

can anyone tell me i been to buy some paint for my light blue sbm probe code zn but they telling me that code is graphite night mist code is zn and year is 1996 also correct but because of age of car no colour chips are available has any had this before thanks john

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Re: sbm paint

Post by Kit » Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:17 am

Try CARS on Canvey Is

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Re: sbm paint

Post by mojo98 » Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:37 am

Yes it is Graphite Night Mist, but over here it's SBM,

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Post by sockett 1962 ][ » Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:38 pm

thanks its just they have no colour samples to compare the colour and if it was mixed and wrong could end up in a problem

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Re: sbm paint

Post by Kit » Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:34 pm

sockett 1962 ][ wrote:
Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:38 pm
thanks its just they have no colour samples to compare the colour and if it was mixed and wrong could end up in a problem
I’ve taken the petrol flap into CARS ‘s , mix/match rattle cans to suit. To get the perfect match.

May be you could find a local supplier to do the same.

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Re: sbm paint

Post by Scooby » Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:29 am

Having tried to respray a SBM in the past, it's not really even the colour that is the problem. With the colour flip component, you have to spray the paint in the same direction as the original paint was prayed otherwise it won't match.
Don't get me wrong, I loved my SBM but trying to do small area repsrays is virtually impossible to get a "good" match. I got "passable" matches but they were obvious.
I did as others have, I took a body panel to a paint shop and got them to mix it from that reference. It looked great in the pot (I had a compressor etc) but totally different on the car.
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Re: sbm paint

Post by Sunfly » Sat Jun 11, 2022 1:55 pm

That’s interesting paint related info Scooby. The colour is silver blue mist but the info (if you have an sbm) is gold😎

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Re: sbm paint

Post by Scooby » Sat Jun 11, 2022 9:49 pm

I get that. The flip was blue, pink, gold on mine.
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Re: sbm paint

Post by mojo98 » Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:57 am

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As you can see mine is a flip to slight pink
But I'm hoping it will make me plenty of Gold when it goes up for sale, :D :D
still only got 19991 miles on the clock, that until Castle Howard show in the 19th June

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Re: sbm paint

Post by Kit » Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:56 pm

mojo98 wrote:
Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:57 am
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As you can see mine is a flip to slight pink
But I'm hoping it will make me plenty of Gold when it goes up for sale, :D :D
still only got 19991 miles on the clock, that until Castle Howard show in the 19th June
So, you have 6 days, to make Mojo, an offer on a car with less than 20,000 miles ;)

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