Here's a photo of the sticker in my glove box.

Which of the numbers is my paint code??

 

It would be the 80U code!

 

Thanks Andre!

I'm still looking for the right mufflers...it's been an exhausting and exhaustive search!!

 

now that is funny! Too bad your exhaust shipment was damaged because the off road exhaust sounds mean .

On a side note....don't tell me you need to have some body work done .

Later my Boilermaker brother .

 

Yea...take a look at this post: http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1473217

Not serious but irritating!

 

Wrong unfortunatetly, is actually the number right next to BC/CC (which stands for base coat/clearcoat BTW). In your case it's the 301N number. I'm a damage adjuster for an ins. company and find these codes all day long. Gm places them in either the glove box door, under the rear spare cover trim panel or, rarely, on the left opening edge (jamb) of the door.

 

301n

 

All the documents that were given to me by the line workers when I watched mine being built list the color as "80U Red Jewel"

 

Thanks all...I'll give them both.

 

The color code is 80U and for touch up paint it is WA-301N. Just looked it up on GM's ordering guide.

 

Why should you be giving a collision repair or autobody repair person a paint code? At this point for you I'd be scared $$$$hatless that your repairer has no idea what the're doing. Any painter can rattle off a paint code and it's location on a car in their sleep. Makes me wonder why you need to give anyone a paint code. I guess maybe you plan on buying a bottle of lipstick touch up paint. Not to ruffle any feathers, but yes your paint code is 301N. This is the variance that a shop uses to determine what pigment mix is used to arrive at the basecoat. Some colors can have up to 12 or more different "variances" that the manufacturer determines were used during the course of a run of painted cars. Shops actually keep these paint "swatches" with all the different variances, and OMG, actually have to narrow down the correct variance by eye. There is no such computerzied paint match as you know it. Rather the painter uses the paint code to determine what pigments are used to develop the basecoat and then let down panels are tested and matched up to the car itself for the painter to determine best match. Not all colors wear the same due to weathering, if the cars is stored inside or out etc., oxidation and age. The ultimate color match is made by the trained (hopefully) naked eye of the refinisher. The other code you are referring to may be a code for a can of "nail polish" to cover your chip.

 

Thanks. I was going through the manager at the Goodyear store that damaged the car. But you're absolutely right...once I spoke to the guy at the body shop he said he'd handle the code and explained possible variations very similar to you.

He sounds like he know what he's doing. On a side note he said they had just done full re-paints on a 2005 and a 2006....both had been run through barb wire fences!!

 

I knew that was the code but did not know what BC/CC stood for. Thanks for the info ryshla3.

 

Hope all works out for you, I'd immediately file a liability claim under the damaging shops business policy, that is if they don't pay for it directly. And try not to let them tell you they have a shop that can do it. That's not in your best interest. You choose a shop on your own, a good one at that, and if the damaging auto place has a problem with that, simply tell them that their liability company will simply send one of its' adjusters to settle the claim with your shop. God bless.

 

You betcha, no problem. I'll be looking for ya if I'm ever up westchester.

 

Just send me a PM.

 

Good information, thanks.