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[Cluaran]

Good morning,

I hope all are good and your minis are firing on cylinders.

I always search the forum before I post a question. I got hits for the question I am going to ask, but unfortunately I have had no joy, resolving my issue.

The paint code on my VIN is the duo paint code RWU this splits out to Flame red and diamond white.

On the Somerford mini shop website it says the following::

Note: some Minis carried a paint code of RWU or RDV. RWU was a ‘Duo Colour’ code indicating a finish of Flame Red with a White Diamond.

The code for flame red from this duo code is COF.

I bought rattle cans 1k & 2k COF from multiple suppliers, also bought tins of COF, HVLP guns and 100l SGS compressor.

The colour is not even close to the colour. I bought rattle cans of all the Rover Flame red. I done spray outs on primed 6 inch steel squares. None of them are even close to the existing colour.

Stupidly I rubbed down and primed the bonnet and roof. Prior to confirming the colour was correct. I am trying to delete the white roof so the mini is all flame red.

I'm worried now that I have a grey primer roof and a bonnet a different colour.

I took the boot lid to a local paint supplier. He had wee booklets with loads of different red paint swatches. He was unable to match the paint. I asked him about Spectrometery. He says this doesn't give a good match. Which I don't understand? Is this true? I thought with mode4n technology, this would be my next best option.

Could anyone advise if imports paints are different due to country laws and regulations?

Has anyone got the same model and year import with the duo paint code RWU, that has successfully match the paint.

Is there anyone in the Glasgow area that could recommend anywhere that they would recommend that can match paint? That does spectrometery?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated, as this has been getting me down. The amount of money I have spent, I'd probably have been cheaper paying someone that knows what they are doing!

I was also trying to clarify if a Cooper white roof should only be white on the actual roof or if the raised gutter should also be white?

Under the bonnet where paint has worn away, I can see gold/bronze primer. Does the colour of the primer have a significant difference to the finished colour?

Did Rover use a gold/bronze primer?

If anyone would be good enough to help me, I would be very grateful.

How much money (ball park) would it cost to get a mini resprayed in 2025, has anyone had a paint job recently. Can you get a respray with out a full strip down?

Thanks very much in advance for any help.

Hope all enjoy the rest of there weekend!

Kindest Regards

Cluaran

[Midas Mk1]

Being the youngest Mini is 25, there’s a high chance that the basecoat isn’t that of the factory.

You really need to get an existing panel scanned, this process takes an image of three points for data, then searches the database and gives you 3 matches in the closest order first.

Primer affects the base colour too, although once you’ve matched the existing base coat this colour code will tell you what colour primer to use.

Any good bodyshop or paint supplier has the scanner, I was lucky to use one a good few times over the years in my last job.

[Cluaran]

This is a picture of the bonnet and wing. Top is the factory paint, bottom is 2k COF from rattle can, the type with the pin on bottom to activate.

https://freeimage.host/i/3WH3T2s

Thanks

cluaran

[nicklouse]

As said take it to a paint shop for scanning.

[sonscar]

When you rubbed it down to bare metal did you see rings of previous repaints?On my racing green when I rubbed the roof down there was the green under the white.The gold primer sounds like isolater primer which used to be the choice when painting over unknown quality substrate.I am sure that you know red is very prone to colour change with age.Steve..

[cooperd70]

I have a 1990 Flame Red limited edition which is original and the white roof paint includes the inside of the gutter all the way around. The underside of the gutter is Flame Red and then it has the black plastic trim fitted over it. I would think that would be unchanged on a 1994 mini.