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31/1/2025 at 10:53pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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No absolute need for a paint code. Colours can be 'matched to a sample' using a Spectrophotometer. Decent (car body) repair shops/paint suppliers will have the instrument, but you'll have to get a part/panel or the entire van to them for them to scan it! It can achieve a perfect match even taking account of aging discolouration.
The bare aluminium will oxidise and develop a slight white powdery surface on exposure to air! It will need a specific aluminium etching primer to get correct paint adhesion.
Can't help with the specific paint code I'm afraid, can't find the correct one for my Lunar either!
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01/2/2025 at 7:12am
Location: Worcestershire
Outfit: Buccaneer Cruiser
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Car paint is different to the paint on a caravan.
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01/2/2025 at 12:54pm
Location: Near Alton Towers
Outfit: Bailey Burgundy S7 H
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Paints colour fades over time due to UV sunlught so even if you got the exact code when new it probably wouldn't be quite right now. As Monty15 says go to a proper paint supplier or bodyshop and ask their advice.
I managed to scrape a long dent across the door of my Bailey caravan a few years ago and did the repair successfuly myself by getting advice from those who do it all the time. Plus, it only cost me for the price of the paint, etch primer, various grades of emery paper etc.
Dave.
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