I need to do some touching up on my 2001 sapphire blue coupe. When I’ve bought car paints before (Toyota celica & Mazda mx-6) the suppliers had different shade options for paints that were the same code. This was because the cars were known to come out slightly different shades from the factory.

Are the Jaguar colours reliable?

If not I have to put the wheels back on and take the car with me to the paint shop.

thanks
kevin

 

The colors change with age, but I'm not sure if they can get a perfect match with the clear coat on. My 06 is black and that was easy.

 

Matching is always tricky with metallic paints. You might get lucky buying paint from a touch up supplier. Depends on the area of coverage needed too.

I have had good luck with paints from this source. Cheap enough to give it a try.
https://www.automotivetouchup.com/to...01/all-models/

I recently bought some of their Stratus Gray metallic to paint the plastic plugs I used to fill the holes in the front bumper of my new acquired 2011 XJL. Matched good enough for that.

 

I have found that the platinum metallic is without doubt the hardest color to match. I recommend you take your car in and ask for a match grantee. Repainting the nose (which gets the most chipping) is the hardest.

 

I can confirm this. My car has three different shades of platinum. I can't wait to have the entire car resprayed.

 

As pointed out, aging makes it nearly impossible for a touch up to match perfectly. The good news is, whatever flaw you are touching up looks so bad that a little mismatch is still a huge improvement.


Z