Any Pelicans work for PNA or a dealership?

[speedo]

I am having trouble getting a paint code. I have a car at the painter and need the code so my painter can paint the car. My local local dealerships don't have the paint codes and Porsche N. America is difficult (at best) to deal with. It took a long time to decide a color to paint my car...and now I can't get the code for the local paint (Sherwin Williams) to mix the paint

Help would sure be appreciated

Speedo

[Zeke]

SW should have the formulas by name. If you know the color name, that would help. I get names for colors off PaintScratch.com

[speedo]

I am going with "Azurros California Metallic"...the same color that was used for the 50th anniversary 50 997s produced in 2005, and also a special order color for the 2008 Boxster S .

Speedo

[rattlsnak]

here are all the codes listed for '05s. Its Sikkens, but the number should cross reference. Dont see the one you're looking for though.

http://www.qnetonline.nl/cgi-nt/qnet/qncolorlist.asp?site=SIKGL&md=man&mk=Porsche&cc=&cd=&cg=&yu=2005&pd=15&qy=1.0&um=1&pr=cum&go=Start+Search

[speedo]

If you look at the July 05 issue of Pano, the 997 on the cover wears the color. Dealerships claim they don't have the code because PNA hasn't released it yet. Almost like I need to have one of those 50 cars, and ding it....then take it to get repaired so the body shop could use the car's vin to get the code from PNA. I'm trying to work around this....which is why I was hoping to find someone who works for PNA who could help me with the "paint code politics"

Speedo

[Macroni]

Lars,

Send a PM to Kenikh. He has helped me in the past with this type of question.

Luke

[rattlsnak]

Well I found the correct name, but its a Ferrari color... probably the same thing.

http://www.expresspaint.com/ProductCart/pc/advSearch_h.asp?idcategory=0&idSupplier=10&priceFrom=0&priceUntil=99999&resultCnt=15&keyword=Azzurro+California+Metallic&

Paint code 524.

[speedo]

I found the code...but what a PIA. PNA does not want to give the code out. As it is a special order color, and the fact that it was used on their 50th commemorative cars, they will only provide it to a paint shop doing repairs on a car with the correct vin that had the color OEM . Even the dealerships can't access the code unless they can provide a vin from one of the actual cars. I found a way around the nonsense, and won't bore the board with the 15 phone calls it took. Suffices to say, that I owe someone in "the chain" a favor. The paint is a water based paint that requires special equipment to shoot. So even though I have the code, my paint supplier needs to try to cross reference the code and convert it to an oil-based two stage paint. This was supposed to be the easy part, right? Just find a color you like...and shoot the car.