I have painted my car cobalt blue ral code 5013 is there a way to find out if a manufacturer used it as i don't want to have to but all the seperate components to do a little paint work and was hoping halfords would have a tin?

Proper paint suppliers will make you up an aerosol of any colour you like.

I believe Gills in Glasgow do it, so some others will as well.

i was in halfords and there colour charts go by manufacturers not ral codes, i may just look through there charts untill i get something close and use that

i believe our local halfrauds do any colour you want in an arseol you just take in a colour sample and they do the rest. Must be some typ of scanning type doobrie thing that matches the colour. Brother in law had one done in red it was very accurately matched.

cool will try that tomorrow, thanks for the advice

this may help...


http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk/ral.html

In my experience Halfords paint is a bit crappy to say the least - try your local automotive paint shop (every town has one) They will make up your paint from a sample, RAL code or manufacturers code, bung it in an aerosol can..... and it will be much better quality too.

Mac Thornton has a top guy he can match it and make the proper can up so we can just spray no bother. call me and pop over.

halfords mixed paint is indeed crap. i should know, i mix it.

afaik, they don't have any form of colour scanner, at least not in our branch, and paint is mixed on a scale, based on measurements from a computer list that is inaccurate at the best of times, and completely the wrong shade at others, mainly because the scales won't measure fine enough increments, and the component paints won't mix properly

it's a shady side that i prefer to stay away from, as i like people to see i know what i'm doing

if you ask most halfords staff, they'd look at you aghast if you told them a RAL code, but you pay peanuts, you get monkeys eh?

enough ranting, basically

DON'T BUY MINIMIX PAINT FROM HALFORDS

that's what paint shops are for
there, you've been told
tom

disclaimer: this message does not represent the views of any employee of halfords if you happen to be an area manager etc etc

Why is it that branded things like air filters etc are cheaper than the ones boxed as Halfrauds jobbies......at least they are in Nupton branch...
You would think it was a wood yard ......as it's full of planks

I think I paid around £9 for a can of yellow cellulose from my local paint shop (Busy Bee, Ipswich). Took in an offcut of the fibreglass, and they matched it up without problems.
The can is also superior quality - more paint in it than is usually the case, and a nozzle that gives a nice fan pattern.

David