PORSCHE car paint 

The project to paint a touch-up or a complete on a Porsche vehicle begins with the fact of obtaining the paint after having determined what is the reference of its color among the color codes of German cars and for example, the color codes of Opel cars. It is not really useful, when addressing a paint store, to communicate the model of the Porsche car, or even the year of the vehicle. Above all, the Porsche color code is the most important.
If one has the maintenance book of the original vehicle, it is very likely that one can find another valuable piece of information, which is the name of the color.
No, there is no usable color information on the gray card.
We explain a little later in the article how to find the precise reference on certain places of the vehicle.

If you are the person who is going to carry out the painting work and it is your vehicle, it is necessary to understand what are the different types of manufacturer's paint, their qualities and their particularities.
When painting is done by a bodybuilder in a garage, a water-based paint is used. However, if you buy the paint online from a specialized and professional site, you will probably receive a solvent-based paint: it is better, it dries faster, it is thinner and it lasts longer.

PORSCHE car color codes

You will probably never have access to these confidential bases which include hundreds of colors, as well as hundreds of recipes.

Each recipe includes a transparent base in which the preparer must add, with infinite precautions and great precision, concentrated colors.

These concentrated colors are very numerous and the dosages are made to the nearest hundredth of a gram.
If you get your hands on these recipes, they will probably be of no use to you, since each recipe corresponds to its own color system. to a brand of paint. That is, each color concentrate is different, and one manufacturer's recipes do not match another manufacturer's products.

The vehicles of the Porsche brand, the color codes are numerous, there are nearly a hundred color codes for Porsche manufacturers. Each color code is made up of one or more characters, this can be numbers or letters, and this is done in accordance with the worldwide color code system, which every car manufacturer uses.
It may happen that the same Porsche color code is identical to that of another manufacturer. In order to increase accuracy and avoid margin of error, a 2nd piece of information, which is the color name, exists.
In a color coding computer system, there is also a 3rd piece of information which is the year of operation.

The history of the manufacturer PORSCHE

Porsche is a German vehicle manufacturer that takes its name from the founder, who was born in 1875 and died in 1951 (Ferdinand Porsche) and who specialized in the production of sports vehicles. Porsche was born in 1931, and at the time the company focused on the production of equipment and armaments, such as tanks for example. Today it only manufactures high performance cars and is owned by the Volkswagen Group. However, the company continues to be a family business run by the descendants of the founder.

Porsche vehicles are known to be luxury vehicles and each of their models enjoys an exceptional reputation, such as the Spyder, the Boxster/Cayman, the 911 (992), the Panamera, the Macan, the Cayenne or the Taycan. The production of vehicles for 20 years has been constantly increasing and we can see that it has quadrupled.

Where to find the color code of your PORSCHE car ?

In parallel, with its manufacture of special effect paints for cars and motorcycles, Stardustcolors® produces all the color references for existing vehicle manufacturers for individuals.

For PORSCHE brand vehicles, the plate mentioning the color code (vinplate) can be found in three different places.
- Inside the engine compartment.
- Between the two doors on the left side (driver's side).
- In the compartment for the spare wheel
You can take help from the images provided below which illustrate the location.
The color code is always composed of three characters (letters or numbers).

The emblematic colors of PORSCHE cars

The color codes of the Porsche brand are numerous and are almost exclusively composed of 3 characters, of which here are some examples :

2B5 MALACHITGRUEN
2B9 LAGOGRUEN
2D8 GRUEN
2G0 GULFORANGE
3A8 LAPISBLAU
3AR BLAUTUERKIS

There are some iconic colors because they have been made famous by their participation in many car races during which the manufacturer Porsche has distinguished itself with many stories over many years.
These are GULF BUE and GULF ORANGE shades. These are opaque type tints, in a way old-fashioned tints, which we also offer in our range of airbrush paint in 125 ml.
Modern Porsche shades are more complex shades with the presence of mother-of-pearl and metal.

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