Re: [T3] type3 Digest #341

[DGaries808@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/02 12:59:57 PM Central Daylight Time, 
FiestaCranberry@webtv.net writes:

<< Subj:     Re: [T3] type3 Digest #341
 Date:  10/4/02 12:59:57 PM Central Daylight Time
 From:  FiestaCranberry@webtv.net (Fiesta Cranberry)
 Sender:    type3@vwtype3.org
 Reply-to:  type3@vwtype3.org
 To:    type3@vwtype3.org
 
 >You should use standard colors, 
 >too.<snip> If I had used the L-codes, 
 >everyone could have matched the paint all 
 >of the time. 
 
 Ummm...sorry to be so ignorant.  What are "standard colors" and "L
 codes" ?  You mean I can go to a store and buy spray paint in Marina
 Blau?  I've never seen it.
 
 Lori

Standard colors are original VW colors, such as L-41 (black as I recall, not 
up to date on the color codes). Everyone knows how to make L-41 paint. Go to 
any paint
supplier, and they will tell you. There was an article in VW Trends, I think, 
about 1.5
years ago that had a copy of all of the standard colors plus their L-codes. 

If you have the L-code, you can have any paint supplier make up your paint 
for you. Some even stock spray cans of L-coded paint. It's for touch-ups. 
There is an outfit
called Wolfsburg West that has a list of the L-codes. And. yes, you can buy 
Marina
Blau (marine blue) paint at any supplier. Just ask for Marina Blau paint, and 
they will
tell you the L-code for it. Look at a sample of it. If it matches your paint, 
that's what you are looking for.

Don Garies
dgaries808@aol.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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