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Title: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: tweed on 06 February 2013, 13:15

My 94 vr6 is a lighter shade than my 97 gti, both dragon green. Now I thought nothing of this as the vr6 has been resprayed due to the body mods.

But the other night a friend of mine said to me the early dragons greens are light than the later ones. Making it hard to swap parts. I didn't mention mine where different to him either.


Can anyone confirm this?
 

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: Martinvr6 on 06 February 2013, 13:20

There will be more than two shades, all grouped under the same colour code

Satin silver has 12 shades all under the same colour code for example

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: GOLF-MK3-GTI on 06 February 2013, 13:31

It may well be.

My car is a 98 (R) MK3 in dragon green, Before it got damaged the colour was darker. After getting it re-sprayed the colour is much lighter than it was before.

I put it down to it being new piant,  But you may well be right, they are 2 shades.

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: boneybradley on 06 February 2013, 15:41

there's lots of slightly different shades and you'll only really notice putting 2 cars from a couple of years apart together.
and even more so with vw changing the paint totally in 1996 (to crap water based paint that is crap!).

b.t.w there about 15 shades of LC9Z diamond black!!

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: tweed on 06 February 2013, 17:22

This is very annoying  :angry:

Cheers

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: hill1975 on 06 February 2013, 20:33

We had 3 paint chips when I worked at a panels place. Got my name on the back of the one for mine!  :smiley:

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: F17BAD on 06 February 2013, 20:48

theirs about 10 different shades of DG

same for most other colours, for example theirs 5 different shades of Reflex silver

mate works in a body shop, my black one is no longer the L041 VW black as it brown in it, CBA with that

Mine is PURE black now.. also means easy as f**k to get a perfect match if ever i need any repairs  :cool:

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: 67buggers on 06 February 2013, 21:02

[quote b.t.w there about 15 shades of LC9Z diamond black!!
[/quote]

You been looking at my car ! Lol :grin:

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: trog_nfs on 06 February 2013, 21:03

Could be worse,

I hear there are 50 shades of grey...

































I'll get my coat

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: hill1975 on 06 February 2013, 21:10

 :smiley:

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: tweed on 06 February 2013, 22:07

 :grin: oh dear.

Got a lot planned  :wink:

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 06 February 2013, 23:54

Quote from: trog_nfs on 06 February 2013, 21:03

Could be worse,

I hear there are 50 shades of grey..


I'll get my coat

I f**king hope not as mine could do with a bit of toshing over at some point.

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: whileoceanasleeps on 07 February 2013, 17:20

I was wondering this.. the bonnet of my dg 8v in now on my dg 16v and there is a slight variation in colour.. the cars are only a year apart, 96 and 97 but the 96 shade is slightly more bluey

Title: Re: Two shades of dragon green?
Post by: tweed on 07 February 2013, 17:51

At night my 97 looks blue in street lights but the vr6 just looks green