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I am about to buy a car that is clearly blue but the paperwork says black, if the VIN no matches should I worry about this?
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Hmmm, sounds suspiciously like the car has had a respray. If it's recently been done it could hold a multitude of sins.
I would look for tell tale signs, like overspray on the window rubbers, lifting the boot carpet to see if the paintwork there is black, likewise prise off a doorpanel to see if a different colour lurks behind it.
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Another check would be to ring the original supplying dealer and ask what colour their invoice system shows. It may have been a simple error when first registering the car.
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I had a Mondeo that was registered as blue and it looked blue, but the paint code on the vin plate was mallard green. It was a pearlescent colour that looked blue in daylight and had a purple sheen at night.
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I've seen this sort of thing a couple of times:
1) Fiat Brava bought by my father about 7 years ago - colour quite clearly gold, but as Fiat chose to call the colour "Metallic Juvarra Ivory" or sthg similar, back came the V5 with "Colour: White" on it. Took a phone call or three to DVLA to sort that out, because let's face it, white and gold ain't the same colour.
2) My own Seat Leon, bought a couple of years ago - absolutely no way that the colour was anything other than silver, but thanks to Seat choosing to call the paint colour "Arctic Grey Metallic" , the V5 stated that it was grey.
IMHO, this problem could easily be prevented by either
a) manufacturers providing DVLA with up-to-date colour charts, giving all the names of the colours, or
b) manufacturers not giving their colours such silly (and misleading) names.
Was interested to note when I bought my new Punto that Fiat have actually started to do b), only exception to this being a colour for Stilos called "Moire Black", which is actually dark purple.
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Ford's Sage Silver, as on thousands of Granada's, is another one - known as 'Bronzit' in Germany, which was much more appropriate.
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Heh - my 525i is quite definately gunmetal in colour - dark grey. But as BMW called it Granitsilber, the V7 says "Silver". I guess it's a wider problem than I realised.
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And my car is "Sahara Gold" according to the manufacture, "Beige" according to the V5 - doesn't sound so good does it!
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I recall the Ford Cortina 1600E being available in Orchid or Orchard depending which Ford brochure you had. I wonder what that odd colour got translated into on its V5. Pale Pink?
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And mine is silver, but its called "cosmic grey" so the V5 says grey.
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My Citroen C5 is misty lilac, looks grey, silver, light blue or light lilac depending on light. Most people call it silver.
The DVLA calls it purple. That sounds like a tasteless shade.
Ben
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I have had real trouble with my Harley when I took it to be re-reg'd again a few months ago. It has a custom paint job in a sort of iridescent metallic blue. The problem is that, seen with the sun behind it, it genuinely looks dark black. And "dark black" (sic) is what appears on the Cert of Reg. Cost me lunch money to the inspector to get over that one.
My uncle had a 1963 Morris Minor in what was pretentiously called "Rose Taupe". He was incensed when he found the registration quoted the colour as "Pink". The more so because he was a retired sailor...
Maybe manufacturers should be made to help out here. They can call their latest heap whatever they like with some fancy designer name for the brochures and to tempt the female buyer. But along with that they could be made to supply a "registration-specific" generic one word colour which goes on the record and which is universally acceptable.
Thus "Desert Moonstone" would be "gold", and "Nebula Grey" would be plain "black" etc etc...
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Rose Taupe Morris Minor in 1963 - that wasn't one of those limited edition "Minor Millions" was it? They were a sort of lilacy colour I think. Didn't they roll the millionth Minor off the line about that time?
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