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Monaco
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The colour of your car at the moment looks like Tamarisk Green. However, I understand it is a Malmo Green car.

I would recommend pulling out the rear carpet as usually the paint on the rear floor is original and in decent shape and get that colour matched by the paint shop.
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The colour of your car at the moment looks like Tamarisk Green. However, I understand it is a Malmo Green car.

I would recommend pulling out the rear carpet as usually the paint on the rear floor is original and in decent shape and get that colour matched by the paint shop.


Up under the dash is pretty good as well usually. Hard to get to though!

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Also behind the back seat, or door cards.

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Do any of you think the BMC codes are useful still??

Yes! PPG paints took over from Dulux Dulon and can mix most colours from BMC codes.
Because tinters have changed or been deleted they may have difficulty with some.
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but useless with 2 pac :cry:

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Plus the problem with the old formulas is that they all would have had to be converted from the lead containing, to lead free tinters. So they are probably not terribly close now.

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I bought Concept 2 pack `Jet Red' paint (VG Auto Paints had the code) for my car when we resprayed it, it seems very close to original.
Whether they have a listing for Malmo Green I don't know.

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when I had the paint mixed for mine (dulux 2 pac I think ) the bmc colours were found under Leyland Trucks? The bodyworks bloke rang the paint rep and they nutted it out, seems the codes just get lost over time I guess.
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What they all said...and be careful going off Photographs or Images as processing and the rendering of computer monitors can skew the colours :idea:

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A fairly common problem is how colours are made on the computer vs how they are mixed for printing and painting. Commonly household monitors use RGB, printers will use cmyk and of course colour isn't illuminated from behind in real life like monitors are. There are relatively expensive colour adjusted monitors (relatively) used by professional printers

To match it? Do what you're doing but don't be surprised if the Internet doesn't match up what your car actually is.
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