Trabant Tech Forum

Its coming out as a Fiat colour and also pointing to Ral 7032 Pebble Grey.

Andy.

yes its a fiat colour its a dead match for my paint

Many thanks for the information.

Andy.

I hate to be late for the party and all. I'm not all that crazy about this color. I always referred to it as "dirty white". But that was the color mine was so it is what it is.

I had a local paint store aim their "gun" at the hood/bonnet and they matched it up perfectly. I couldn't find a color code anywhere on the car.

I told them this was just touch up paint I was going to apply it with a foam brush in the engine compartment and trunk. So they mixed some some acrylic enamel. It was still high at $50 a liter and I didn't even buy any hardener to go with it.

Someone did some welding on the shock towers and went crazy with flat black paint and some something I call "red stuff". So far I haven't found anything that will remove it. I've tried lacquer thinner (cellulose) and acetone. I've either had to scrap it off or paint over it.

Bottom right hand corner are the before and after:

http://s222.photobucket.com/user/turbofiat/library/Trabant?sort=6&page=1

It matched so well I used it to touch up the gouge marks in the Duraplast and the bumpers. Just to get me by until I found the time to repaint it. But that's been 4 years ago!

You can get somewhat of an idea of how it matched:

http://s222.photobucket.com/user/turbofiat/library/Trabant?sort=6&page=8

Speaking of which. Our plant just runs about half the time so in between if we don't have anything to package we paint doors, handrails, I-beams, ladders, etc.

The paint we use is this industrial grade urethane enamel. The paint is mixed at a 4:1 ratio. If you don't put hardener in it, it won't dry. It stays tacky. But if properly mixed dries rock hard, glossy and slick. I think because it takes a while for this stuff to dry and cure, it gives the paint time to lay down.

Some of my co-workers hate painting but I actually like to paint. If I wasn't doing it here, I would be doing it at home!

I don't particularly like getting paint all over my clothing and this paint we use is so volatile, it will make you high as a kite! Especially when thinned down with MEK. MEK is supposed to be used to clean brushes but it works just as well as a thinner.

I got to thinking, wonder how this would turn out if I shot it using a paint gun? I'm planning on shooting an old Yugo bonnet/hood with this stuff and see how it turns out.

I thought there was a can of white paint in the cabinet but it's gone. Someone must have used it or I misread the label. I wondered if I could mix a bit of gray with it and come close.

I got a few colors to choose from.

Bright blue
Fire engine red
Taxi cab yellow
Bright green
Light gray
Battleship gray
Dark Chocolate brown

I thought about going with Battleship Gray. Actually the light gray comes close to what's on the car now.

I'd have to repaint the engine compartment. I haven't done the trunk or door jambs yet.

https://www.ppgpaints.com/products/pitthane-ultra-gloss-urethane-enamels

My car is blue so i had nothing to match the paint to. I plan to paint it next year and put on the factory style rally decals that i already have. I will get a rattle can made up on friday with the colour that Kev the builder as found. I will then spray some scrap metal and see how it looks. If all is fine then next summer i will get a few litres made up, ready for my spray gun. I still have a few more welding jobs to do this year, so paint will have to wait.

Andy.

Had a aerosol of Fiat 047/A made up today. Sprayed part of a old Trabant roof and the colour looks very good. I can see why its very hard to see the colour when looking at different pictures. I've tried taking photos but i seem to get many different shades of colour. At different angles and different light, it can be a dark cream, a ivory or a light beige. Thanks Kev for the info.

Andy.

You're never going to match a color using a picture. Camera sensors, displays and monitors all have differences in how they render colors. Some don't even include the 'u' at all.

Yes, i agree with that. You put a RAL colour code in google and see all the different shades that are meant to be the same colour.
Its looks a very good match and will be good enough for me. Its not a show car. It will just be a very well used look a like.

Andy.

I had a papyrus white car and as I sanded it down to paint it himmelblau there was indeed himmelblau underneath!

For some dumb reason I took the car to Maaco's and they painted it decent enough but when I went back for touch up paint, it was slightly off...

Now I have so many scratches and Maaco orange peel that short of repainting the entire thing, I am just going to get a few cans of sky blue EZ-peel paint in a spray can and touch it up.