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Re: Color Code (2)

phil,

thanks for the enlightenment. i bought a non-metallic color to avoid
clearcoat, and now i find out it's got clearcoat!  so do you know if
it fades and cracks off as bad as the metallic colors?

thanks.
- -sam


> 086 is Black (Schwarz), the non-clearcoat version.  The first clear coat
> blacks I remember seeing came on the '91 M5 #668 "glanz schwartz" or Jet
> Black as we Americans were told to call it.  I don't think the rest of the
> BMW line got clear coated black until somewhere around mid-'92 or '93.
> When the Alpine
> White II became a clearcoat its number changed from 218 to 300.  Red became
> clearcoated (I believe) when it went from Brilliant Red #308 to Bright Red
> #314, although the #308 in '93 may have been clearcoated, just can't
> remember it all, old age you know.  And it's a safe assumption that Dakar
> Yellow #337 became clearcoated in the '96 model when they started calling
> it Dakar Yellow II, later the BMW code referred to Dakar Yellow as #267, to
> me confirming the change.  I'll let someone else speak on the Dakar Yellow
> clearcoat question, I have really bad memories concerning Dakar on an M3
> and Harmon Fischer, owner of the M3F in Dakar.
> 
> -Phil Marx
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