paint code

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:21 pm

anyone know my paint code for reflex silver?

and a decent/cheap place to get the paint and laqure.

need to spray front grill.

cheers

AKs_SlickPolo · Post by **AKs_SlickPolo** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:23 pm

The paint code is LA7W - Should be on a sticker nearby the spare wheel well

TimGti · Post by **TimGti** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:22 pm

AKs_SlickPolo wrote:The paint code is LA7W - Should be on a sticker nearby the spare wheel well

Or on the sticker inside the manual for the car

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:46 pm

i would've looked but car is dead at the garage lol.

cheers guys.

chris 9n · Post by **chris 9n** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:19 pm

LA 7W

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:14 am

Good laquer is Tetrosyl spray laquer (silver tin, blue lid) available from brown brothers/partco/unipart.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:54 pm

i dont have any of them stores where i live.. lol

i know someone who works in a paint supplier shop so i'll give him code and tell him what i'm doing and he should tell me what i need.. hopefuly.

i looked of vagparts and found the polo 9n sport grill, it's 130

be easier to buy it and do it yourself.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:21 pm

Â£130 for a grill?!!

Whats so special about it?

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:42 pm

nothing, its the one without a badge and just once peice through middle.

it looks nice, but also will look s**t withough having the badge recess filled in

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:58 pm

pip_polo wrote: it looks nice, but also will look **** withough having the badge recess filled in

Yeh, and Â£130 is completely un-justifiable

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:25 pm

That much for a grille is about average for after market ones excluding the likes of some solely mesh ones and your usual badgeless ones (same plastic as OEM grille).

Caractere grille is about the same price. I believe that the JE Design one was too however it has been a long time since I looked at those things.

Thought that Sports grille had the VW badge though, never seen one without.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:42 pm

correct it does. well spotted.

still for 135 its a bit expencive.

can get simular on ebay for 40

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:27 am

pip_polo wrote:
can get simular on ebay for 40

Exactly

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:04 pm

Any idea of what either of them are made of?

You may (not definitely) get what you pay for.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:22 pm

I'd assume a lightweight plastic, there's nothing else it can be made of really. I still can't justify why they cost so much!