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paint code
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:21 pm
by pip_polo
anyone know my paint code for reflex silver?
and a decent/cheap place to get the paint and laqure.
need to spray front grill.
cheers
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:23 pm
by AKs_SlickPolo
The paint code is LA7W - Should be on a sticker nearby the spare wheel well
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:22 pm
by TimGti
AKs_SlickPolo wrote:The paint code is LA7W - Should be on a sticker nearby the spare wheel well
Or on the sticker inside the manual for the car
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:46 pm
by pip_polo
i would've looked but car is dead at the garage lol.
cheers guys.
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:19 pm
by chris 9n
LA 7W
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:14 am
by Tim_GTi
Good laquer is Tetrosyl spray laquer (silver tin, blue lid) available from brown brothers/partco/unipart.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:54 pm
by pip_polo
i dont have any of them stores where i live.. lol
i know someone who works in a paint supplier shop so i'll give him code and tell him what i'm doing and he should tell me what i need.. hopefuly.
i looked of vagparts and found the polo 9n sport grill, it's 130
be easier to buy it and do it yourself.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:21 pm
by Tim_GTi
£130 for a grill?!!
Whats so special about it?
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:42 pm
by pip_polo
nothing, its the one without a badge and just once peice through middle.
it looks nice, but also will look s**t withough having the badge recess filled in
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:58 pm
by Tim_GTi
pip_polo wrote:
it looks nice, but also will look **** withough having the badge recess filled in
Yeh, and £130 is completely un-justifiable
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:25 pm
by SiDaBa
That much for a grille is about average for after market ones excluding the likes of some solely mesh ones and your usual badgeless ones (same plastic as OEM grille).
Caractere grille is about the same price. I believe that the JE Design one was too however it has been a long time since I looked at those things.
Thought that Sports grille had the VW badge though, never seen one without.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:42 pm
by pip_polo
correct it does. well spotted.
still for 135 its a bit expencive.
can get simular on ebay for 40
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:27 am
by Tim_GTi
pip_polo wrote:
can get simular on ebay for 40
Exactly
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:04 pm
by SiDaBa
Any idea of what either of them are made of?
You may (not definitely) get what you pay for.
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:22 pm
by Tim_GTi
I'd assume a lightweight plastic, there's nothing else it can be made of really. I still can't justify why they cost so much!