MINESAPINT Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 In the service manual supplied with my Defender just inside the front cover is a small blue piece of paper - looks like it has been torn off a roll. On it it has a code something like C46833H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MINESAPINT Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Computer has a mind of its own, posted the question before I finished typing it. Question is could this be the paint code. I had some paint specially mixed based on the name of the colour (Caledonian Blue) but I might have well gone into Halfords blindfolded and chosen a colour at random. Vehicle now looks like one that has had a replacement part fitted sourced from a scrap yard! MINESAPINT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Nothing meaningful. Land Rover paint codes are in the format LRCxxx where xxx is the code - normally if its on the VIN plate you only find the three digits e.g. on an Epsom Green vehicle you would find 961 on the vin plate etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Def Rich Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 If you ring lr customer contact centre the will be able to help, even for an old model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintman Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Land Rover rarely used to bother putting paint codes on. Perfectly good area on the VIN plate for a paint code which they never used. You will find paint codes in http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk. Land Rover codes - as opposed to LR part numbers can be found as both alphabetic and numeric, but always as groups of 3. Caledonian Blue is coded as both JUT and 507. I can tell you that according to the Spies Hecker paint formulations there are 2 shades of this. The original and a more green shade. It may also be that the new paint looks different as the old paint has been affected by weathering. In which case you would need to blend out onto adjacent panels or get paint eye-matched to your vehicle by a specialist Motor Factor. MF's can be found in Yellow Pages, but not all do paint so ring them first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MINESAPINT Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Thanks for replies guys, Story as follows. Vehicle is year 2000. Couple of years ago I bought 2 tins Caledonian Blue to paint bumper & rear cross member, one from a motor factors/paint shop specially mixed and one off the shelf manufactured by Holts. The specially mixed one was perfect colour & the Holts was pretty good. A couple of weeks ago I went to another motor factor/paint shop & bought a specially mixed spray can of Caledonian Blue. there was a lot of tutting at the time as I did not have the paint code but the disgruntled assistant eventually looked up the colour on the computer. Land Rover Defender Caledonian Blue and the computer advised JUT quite correctly as paintman pointed out. 400ml £13. When I removed the cap I noticed the assistant had had a spray with my paint & when I eventually came to use it, the nozzele was blocked. Fortunately I had some spares. The colour turned out probably to be the wrong shade of JUT as it is much more green/turquoise and totally wrong. Looked on VIN plate under bonnet which includes a place for paint code but it is blank. Phoned other motor factor where original Holts colour was purchased and they no longer stock Holts but he will attempt to find some for me. He phoned me next morning - the paint you ordered is in. Fantastic! £3.50. Colour is very good but noticable if studied. I have been touching up in a few places and have to say I am pleased with my efforts. Vehicle looking much better. MINESAPINT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Caledonian Blue is an awful colour for matching. I have seen a brand new Defender 130 which had three quite distinctly different shades of the colour on adjacent panels and this was all brand new sprayed in the factory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintman Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 As I said, you need the paint to be eye matched to the vehicle. That is very different from just getting an aerosol of paint made up in the shade. The matcher would require part of the vehicle & the paint would then be mixed to match. The one I use occasionally in Leicester has been doing nothing else but mix paint & eye match for the past 30 years (we worked for the same factor in the mid 70's & he's still there). Minimum quantity they do is 1/2 litre & its for use in a spraygun. And you still really need to blend it out. If you look around, you will see pale metallic (esp silver) cars where one panel is a slightly different shade from the rest of the car. Insurance job. They will only pay for the damaged area to be repaired & not for the necessary blending onto the adjacent panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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