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Underseal colour - beige-ish

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:55 pm
by deano
Has anyone established what colour code RAL number is closest to the light beige coloured underseal used under some of our cars?

Maybe RAL1015?

I need to get a tint colour for tintable Raptor - would be better if I didnt have to experiment, waste product, get it wrong, hard to match from RAL charts on a screen etc.

I know, much of it will be covered with body colour, but definitely not all e.g. under back seats

Thanks for looking!! :bounce:

Re: Underseal colour - beige-ish

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:58 pm
by 8bit-ash
I spent way longer than is healthy trying to find the right colour for exactly the same purpose as you. When I'm back from holiday I'll dig out what i ended up going with. I used some scrapings of the old coating to eye match it to colour swatches in the end. The only thing is I don't think raptor will absorb the years of road dirt like the original coating.

Re: Underseal colour - beige-ish

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:00 pm
by deano
That would be great, thank you ! :cheers:

Re: Underseal colour - beige-ish

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:54 pm
by 8bit-ash
I ended up going for RAL 7044, light greyish beige. My little samples from the original coating weren't all that beige -

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Can't remember which of these is 7044-

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Couple of good reference pics here, I concluded a lot of the colour came from the wax coating. -

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Heres a bad pic of my attempt pre wax coat. It doesn't feel right doing the overspray on a nice clean underside!

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