Reliable Vendor for Touch Up Paint 037 Fjord Blue

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I am hoping someone on the board can recommend a vendor who makes a reliable (approximate match) touch up paint. There are a few companies out there but I wonder about the color fidelity of the product. I need 037 Fjord Blue just a small quantity. 1/2 oz, 1 oz

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Dana
 
Don’t expect a miracle... they all are different. 8FF8DB81-4DF8-4E2A-B050-842551E582E0.jpeg
 
i have used drcolorchip for recent model touch up paints and they have been excellent. they will do custom colors, i will use my color sample in ceylon to get my touchup from drcolorchip
 
for those of you that have never used drcolorchip ... its a good system. i had some rock chips on my e30 m3 hood, i used this product - you dab it on with a very small brush, then wipe it down with the 2nd solution and a microfiber towel and it fills the chip relatively well and finishes relatively smooth. you can repeat the process if the paint shrinks (deep chip). i used this on my seal gray cayman (metallic) and my wife's audi q5 (gray metallic) with great success. got a few chips on the 911 that i need to go after, but its worth the money.
 
I have not found any match for Fjord, my coupe has a little more blue. The color changes with every mix & brand of paint.
 
I urge all who have their car painted/re-sprayed to ask for any left over paint and take it to an auto paint supply ( or wherever your body shop got the paint from) and ask them to load it into a rattle can and also a small glass container with a built in touch up brush. I have done this twice and glad I did.
 
I've done roughly the same as Bavbob mentioned, only I had my fuel door color measured and had a minimal order quantity of paint made; for 100 euro's I got 3 spray cans + some leftovers in a tin.

This maybe the way to go for you as well, as you want to have something that matches your car, which is not necessarily the factory original, non-UV faded, virgin 037 as it left the factory.

Having a spray can or touch up brush works well to just do that one part / stone chip that is in need of a fresh layer. Paint applied non-professionally can be a bit off-color, so I'm not using it for exterior, but I stick with things boot /engine compartment and things that dismount like door hinges, and other body colored parts.
 
Color matching is made more difficult by the age of the paint. We (wife and I) are fortunate to have used the services of a guy only two blocks from my office, who matched color on her car perfectly... on a slightly faded a cream color with pearl ... twenty years later.

As above, fjord is many colors depending on who mixed, what paint system, how good their eyes were, age, etc. It's not straight out of the can and onto the car.

My two cents is to reach agreement with your supplier that the paint you get will actually match your car, or he will refund, or tweak until it matches. Only then might both parties be properly served.
 
I am currently getting my Taiga boot lid re-painted and a spoiler installed ....... 4 weeks at the bodyshop before they confirmed paint match, even had to get the lead paint tech from Glasurit to visit the workshop to help with the matching, 14 test cards later my workshop finally confirmed they now have a "perfect" match and can start doing strip and repaint work.

So these classic BMW metallic colours are apparently very tricky to match.

Also a tip for you, once you get the colour matched and the touch up paint ordered, get it in an aerosol can. Auto paint evaporates very fast. All my well sealed Taiga touch up cans from few years back already totally dried out.
 
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fjord is one of those tough colors as the painter can lighten or darken the color depending on how he sprays the color

@Mal CSL 3.0, i hope that Glasurit can match it, their materials have changed so much since original. their currenr formula for ceylon tells painters not to try to touch up an original car with it, only a total repaint. my painter paints porsche car for Porsche NA and has for 25+ years. he just repainted an irish green 911 and went through many formulas to match. he ended up custom blending the paint, creating a formula that matched an original panel perfectly. (one of the paint companies bought the formula).

if you paint your car, get a test sample made at the same time (of the mix they spray) so you have a portable sample. with fjord, the aerosol can change the color one way or another in a rattle can.
 
if you want to match your paint as close as possible on an older paint job - use one of your headlight access panels to get a paint mixed ... or dr. color chip.
 
rsporsche said:
fjord is one of those tough colors as the painter can lighten or darken the color depending on how he sprays the color

@Mal CSL 3.0, i hope that Glasurit can match it, their materials have changed so much since original. their currenr formula for ceylon tells painters not to try to touch up an original car with it, only a total repaint. my painter paints porsche car for Porsche NA and has for 25+ years. he just repainted an irish green 911 and went through many formulas to match. he ended up custom blending the paint, creating a formula that matched an original panel perfectly. (one of the paint companies bought the formula).

if you paint your car, get a test sample made at the same time (of the mix they spray) so you have a portable sample. with fjord, the aerosol can change the color one way or another in a rattle can.
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My bodyshop told me it is custom matched and they have my specific Taiga formula now. (The official BMW formula for Taiga was quite off when they originally made up a sample).

They initially took off the petrol flap and sent off the Glasurit to do a computer match, then made further multiple attempts and adjusted the formula on site with the Glasurit tech guy until they finally say they got the perfect match.

Fingers crossed for good result. It's a nerve racking exercise.
 
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