i want an aerosol paint spray

ron4haze

i want an aerosol paint spray for my 1996 toyota carina, paint code ,8k9. toyota dont make it any more, any thoughts please?

Nile

Hello ron4haze


Welcome to the MSE site.:wave:

If you've contacted only one Toyota dealer garage, it might be worth calling a couple more.

Failing that, you could contact the Toyota magazine 'If' for owners. Their e-mail address is [email="feedback@if-toyota.co.uk"]feedback@if-toyota.co.uk[/email]

Hopefully, they will print your letter/message in the If magazine and you will reach masses of Toyota owners. Either a Toyota dealer or a Toyota owner will contact your e-mail address if they can help. There's bound to be an owner with a can of spray paint they don't use anymore.

I hope that helps.

Regards

Nile

Pink.

Hi ron4haze,

Welcome to mse. You may get more replies on the Motoring board, so I'll move your thread over there.

Pink

northern_munky

Not sure where you are Ron, but have a look in the Yellow Pages for AUTOPAINTS, they sell paints to the car trade but will also mix up an aerosol can for you while you wait to the exact colour. Last one I bought was about 3 years ago and cost £6.99 for quite a big can. Halfords are also supposed to colour match but i have heard they aren't that brilliant.

molerat

Halfords will do a 300ml for £9.99. That is cheaper than the local motor factors do it to the trade !! Several used car dealers use my local Halfords for their paint so they must be OK.

skiddy2k

bare in mind that the car is 10 years old, the colour would never be perfect as your existing colour on the car would have faded due to the sun, weather etc.

always remember, any paint....regardless of cars, including housepaint always dries darker. dont think there's anything wrong with the halfords paint myself but you may need primer aswell which halfords also do for £5.49 i think. this is an undercoat and you would put this on your bodywork first then spray the colour onto it.

have a look at this link, it tells you the basics of preparing bodywork on cars and spraying.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HalfordsProductRedirectionURL?storeId=10001&REDIRECT_URL=/268.asp

Skiddy

ron4haze

thanks to you all ive tried halfords, and the match was the wrong spec right code, but it would nat match ..........................ron

skiddy2k

lift up the bonnet in the car, and look for the chassis plate(vin plate), at the bottom, there will be a group of numbers and this is grouped by a black bracket like sign under these numbers.

the colour code for your car will be the first set of numbers.

skiddy