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Ive got a mini as a new project. Its my very first car and hopefully not my last mini. Im so excited to start rooting at her but ive been thinking what colour should i spray her. Ive been thinking a metallic dark blue but looking through a this red looks well on them too. what i want to know is which do you think is best and which is best kept?

Thanks for any suggestions youll give.

Mmmmm? tricky one this to change the colour of your car will cost a heap of money unless you can do it yourself .
What colour is it now ? to change it and do it properly well mean a complete stripdown to paint the enginebay,interior and
floors . Red is a good colour (mine is red) but a red car with say a green engine bay interior just wont work . I have just
painted a grey car red and it cost a fortune to do properly . Its not the paint its the time that cost the big money .
I wish you well with the project , post up a few pics if you can .

The best colours to keep are sliver grey and gold and my opinon is black it is the second worst colour behind White but I just love black mini but as I said that's just opinon

Taheti blue(i spelt it wrong) is what i painted my car and is easy kept. See if u can find any photos from imm s, There s alway some beautiful cars abroad. You ll get some good ideas

CLUBMANGT wrote:Mmmmm? tricky one this to change the colour of your car will cost a heap of money unless you can do it yourself .
What colour is it now ? to change it and do it properly well mean a complete stripdown to paint the enginebay,interior and
floors . Red is a good colour (mine is red) but a red car with say a green engine bay interior just wont work . I have just
painted a grey car red and it cost a fortune to do properly . Its not the paint its the time that cost the big money .
I wish you well with the project , post up a few pics if you can .

sorry im so late in replying. its a purple at the minute but it was a bad job, it was a class light blue before that. me da would be able to paint it so it shpuld take down the cost a bit. i was hoping to do a full stripdown. im stripping her down at the min so i will put pics up before i start sanding her. thanks for your opinion.

joebe1 wrote:Taheti blue(i spelt it wrong) is what i painted my car and is easy kept. See if u can find any photos from imm s, There s alway some beautiful cars abroad. You ll get some good ideas

funny you should say that colour cause i was looking through some mini mags and say that colour on some minis and loved it. i was thinking of spraying her that colour first but then i say red ones and couldnt decide. if you wouldnt mind could you send on some pics of you r mini (tahiti blue).
thanks for your advice.

thanks all of you for giving me advice. i will try my best to lets ya's see how im getting on but dont hold me to it cause ill be likely to forget.

Hey keith,

my mini is tahiti blue with silver roof and stripes, have a look here...

http://irishminis.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4317

If you're thinking red, this guy on MiniResource went with Mazda Velocity Red on a rebuild. I think the colour looks fantastic.

smur89 wrote:Hey keith,

my mini is tahiti blue with silver roof and stripes, have a look here...

http://irishminis.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4317

hey. love the colour. definitely thinking of using this colour. by any chance do you know the paint code for it? and how much paint was needed? did you do a total stripdown or just the outer shell? it would help a lot thanks

F@ces wrote:If you're thinking red, this guy on MiniResource went with Mazda Velocity Red on a rebuild. I think the colour looks fantastic.

your right that colour is great! that guy must of spent ages working on that! he must be big into minis cause i counted 4 including the one he was working on.

keithm4031 wrote:

smur89 wrote:Hey keith,

my mini is tahiti blue with silver roof and stripes, have a look here...

http://irishminis.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4317

hey. love the colour. definitely thinking of using this colour. by any chance do you know the paint code for it? and how much paint was needed? did you do a total stripdown or just the outer shell? it would help a lot thanks

Hey, its just the factory colour, havent had it resprayed myself.

Ive gotten some touch up stuff for it in halfords (and made a mess of it! ), theres 2 tahiti blues, one pre 1993 and one post 1993.

This is mine..
http://www.minicolours.co.uk/cgi-bin/di ... i?code=965

This is pre '93
http://www.minicolours.co.uk/cgi-bin/di ... gi?code=65

This is all the colours..
http://www.minicolours.co.uk/cgi-bin/list.cgi?code=X