Thread: If you had a chance to change your Rangie's colour...

Originally Posted by Mercguy

BRG or Mosswood? (pic taken before I purchased)
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That's not Mosswood. It doesn't look like BRG either. I wonder if it was a new colour for 93 model year (soft dash)?
Just checked a paint chart. Could be BRG Metallic or perhaps Caprice Mica Metallic.

Originally Posted by Mercguy

It's made me think about changing the LSE colour from BRG to something else.
the 92 is Ardennes Green and I actually prefer it's slightly more subdued hue, but I don't see it as being a 'better' or 'nicer' colour than BRG - which incidentally is apparently a quite rare colour on the MY93 LSE. Apparently only a 1-year option on hard dash LSE's and yet... I dunno. Something propelling me to a warmer colour.

Pity I can't find accurate period correct swatches from the LR options catalogue. Spent all morning googling and everything is earlier or later MY and inaccurate for AUS market.

Perhaps I should paint it a Mercedes colour and suffer the wrath and expense of having to spray Glasurit clear over base.

Actually no.... I drive this thing offroad so it really needs to be a solid colour.... but not Sahara yellow or trocadero red or tuscan blue, even though I don't mind those colours on other peoples vehicles

It's really much harder than it sounds.

Maybe I should stick to the RAL colour codes and use a heavy industrial colour, just not CAT yellow.

When I was repairing some rust in the alpine windows of my sons D1, I went to the local paint place in Wangaratta, general paint, not an auto paint specialist, with the paint code and name. He pulled out a set of Land Rover colour swatches with 4 variants of the colour, he let me take then home to see which was best, then mixed paint in a spray can for me.

Would you like me to go and see what greens they have?

Tony

If it was for an L322, I could help. I have a dealer’s display case which has samples of all the colours sprayed onto metal panels, all the carpets, and all the trims.

Originally Posted by TonyC

When I was repairing some rust in the alpine windows of my sons D1, I went to the local paint place in Wangaratta, general paint, not an auto paint specialist, with the paint code and name. He pulled out a set of Land Rover colour swatches with 4 variants of the colour, he let me take then home to see which was best, then mixed paint in a spray can for me.

Would you like me to go and see what greens they have?

Tony

That's an awfully kind gesture Tony, but I can't ask you to go out of your way just for the sake of a colour swatch ID

I was told by the P.O. that it was BRG micatallic - and it was only on the 93 model and difficult to match.
- hence my hesitation to do anything.

when parked beside the ardennes green MY92 it looks a LOT brighter - a bit like comparing astroturf to real couch grass.

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Originally Posted by Mercguy

That's an awfully kind gesture Tony, but I can't ask you to go out of your way just for the sake of a colour swatch ID

I was told by the P.O. that it was BRG micatallic - and it was only on the 93 model and difficult to match.
- hence my hesitation to do anything.

when parked beside the ardennes green MY92 it looks a LOT brighter - a bit like comparing astroturf to real couch grass.

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Any good paint shop will look it up for you and match the colour with there colour chips. They are quite amazing. I always go to J&D auto paints in ballarat. They are usually very busy, but just wait your turn and they'll match any colour you like. If your really stuck, pull the fuel filler flap from the car and leave it there with them. They will scan and match it (and no doubt tell you the exact colour code and factory paint mix). The back of the fuel filler flap should have good paint with no sun damage

seeya
Shane L.