which colors/color-no did lotus use for painting their cars?

amarshall · Post by **amarshall** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 14:09

Halfords can mix most colours as cellulose spray - touch up cans only.
paints4u.com are cheaper though.

83Excel · Post by **83Excel** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 14:15

If it is still the bumper paint you are after Halfords definately have it. I studies their book a while ago when we were trying to find the old Ice Blue (which they couldn't match). They will also do it in a tin if you want to use a proper spray gun.

I believe that the change over to acrylic paints is for Health and Safety, but understand that you can still get the cellulose paints, but only by special order and in small quantities. Certainly the guy who did my front clam managed to get the correct cellulose paint.

steven popay · Post by **steven popay** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 21:45

[quote="Tango190"]Cheers for that Steven.

I spoke to a bodyshop guy yesterday and he tells me that two pack acrylic is no longer used, he said everything is now water based sprayed as a colour with a clearcoat finish.

I dont Know who you spoke to but 2 pack acrylic is still used for direct gloss and clearcoat, only the basecoat is water based and you can still get solvent based for that. no one that i know of is using water based topcoats and clearcoats as yet.
i work in a toyota/lexus/peugeot/mazda reccomended main dealer bodyshop using all the up to date paints and materials

Tango190 · Post by **Tango190** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 18:18

Again, thanks for the info guys.

Think I'll get a quote to have it done "properly"

Anyone fancy taking a guess how much it might cost ?