Thread: Help with paint code for D1 respray - Green Met Carrigada

Hi all,

Ive been searching around for this one and seen some mention towards this, but havent come to a definitive conclusion.

I have a 1993 2Door 200tdi D1, which has a paint I really like; labelled Green Met. Carrigada.
This D1 has unfortunately seen heavy roof and bonnet paint fading, as well as some recent rust repair, so I have opted for a full respray. I am therefore trying to match the same colour. The resprayer didnt see the colour code under the bonnet and tried to 'match' it and came up with an 'emerald green'. I am glad I caught him before the respray, and pointed him in the direction of the colour code.

After looking it up, I am struggling to see a solid answer to obtain this exact paint. It appears that the name 'Carrigada' got replaced with 'Ardennes', which is also the same paint on the Range Rovers.

After much searching, I have found the following:

HUL Ardennes, Carrigada, County Green Mic 2ct Code: LRC.413
HUL Ardennes, Carrigada, County Green Mic 2ct Code: LRC.413(L)
HUL Ardennes, Carrigada, County Green Mic 2ct Code: LRC.413(Y)

Does anyone have a clue what the above codes wiith suffix (L) and (Y) are, and how they differ from the first code?

Also, as my colour code states MET, all the above state MIC, which I believe is slightly different.

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Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you

I recently did some repairs on my young blokes D1, that required paint.

My local paint shop, not automotive, just general paint, but they do automotive paint in rattle cans, had a book of Land Rover paint swatches. This had 4 versions of the white from the name and paint code.

They lent me the book and I picked the closest one, it still wasn't a great match to the 25 year old car.

Tony