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Have a feeling this is a controversial subject

Is there a ral code for this paint?

I need to paint over a replacement frame strut which isn’t seen although I’d like to get it right.

Ideally a rattle can would suffice.

Jason at Absolutely had a code. I used that to paint a Vega.

I also got a red GP repainted. The Lechler paint suppliers matched it by eye to a Jaguar paint. They showed me before they mixed it and it was very close to, if not exactly the same as, the original orangey red. I think it was called Jaguar Photon red, from memory.

Why don’t you buy a touch up pen in photon red to try?
Only about £10 on Amazon.

Jason used the correct formula provided by Humberside Paints; the UK Lechler dealer that helped me get a match for my original paint sample that I sent him, which was on support of my Scootering feature that I wrote many years ago.

The often quoted 8073 code is not a match for a single original paint example to date, although all of the original example match each other; no coincidence. The chap at Lechler said that, "8073 clearly wasn't, and never had been, a match for the factory Martian Red."

If you do a search on the subject, the formula has been readily posted on various FB forums.... and probably on here too over the years.

I would post it again but don't have it to hand.

Adam_Winstone wrote:Jason used the correct formula provided by Humberside Paints; the UK Lechler dealer that helped me get a match for my original paint sample that I sent him, which was on support of my Scootering feature that I wrote many years ago.

The often quoted 8073 code is not a match for a single original paint example to date, although all of the original example match each other; no coincidence. The chap at Lechler said that, "8073 clearly wasn't, and never had been, a match for the factory Martian Red."

If you do a search on the subject, the formula has been readily posted on various FB forums.... and probably on here too over the years.

I would post it again but don't have it to hand.

Humberside !!!! Wash your mouth out

I know it’s almost impossible to tell from photos and it also matters what colour undercoat is used but:

Yep, Humberside Paints sprayed test cards with different primer colours (wht, yellow, red oxide and grey) and then numbers of coats too.

They settled on grey primer, a certain number of coats and their own formular, which ended up being a very good match. A change to any of these factors would throw out the final match.

Toddy wrote:

Adam_Winstone wrote:Jason used the correct formula provided by Humberside Paints; the UK Lechler dealer that helped me get a match for my original paint sample that I sent him, which was on support of my Scootering feature that I wrote many years ago.

The often quoted 8073 code is not a match for a single original paint example to date, although all of the original example match each other; no coincidence. The chap at Lechler said that, "8073 clearly wasn't, and never had been, a match for the factory Martian Red."

If you do a search on the subject, the formula has been readily posted on various FB forums.... and probably on here too over the years.

I would post it again but don't have it to hand.

Humberside !!!! Wash your mouth out

Ah, North Lincolnshire then!

Thanks people I have ordered the photon paint in a rattle can. I’ll do a few coats of grey primer.