Paint - Typhoon IAB
 

I have two jobs need painting on my ZT T and only enough paint to do one of them. As this paint costs £226/ half litre :eek:, I wondered if anyone has a small amount they would be willing to part with - looking for about 250ml.
Conversely, I have about a quarter litre (already let down for spraying) which I would be ready to part with to defray the cost of buying half a litre which is the minimum order.
thanks,
Malc

Have you checked that the paint you already have matches the shade of typhoon on your car?

I went through this in quite a bit of depth before having my typhoon resprayed. Originally just wanted the back bumper resprayed after someone rear ended it but it is impossible now to get typhoon paint that matches the original shade.

Unlike most of the other monogram colours, there was 3 different shades of typhoon over the years it was available as an option. Very early typhoons on 51/02 plates tend to be very dark and don't flip as much. Middle ones around 52/03 are a mid shade, still relatively dark and have a bit of a better flip (our TF is this shade), and then late ones like mine on 53/04 plates are very light. Line these three shades next to each other and they look like different paint codes there's so much difference in it.

The only place I could source typhoon paint from 2 years ago was from specialist paints, who offer 2 shades of typhoon but both were miles off my original colour. The darker shade they offer was very dark, and the lighter shade was still too dark.

In the end I had to get the whole car done so it would match, otherwise it would have been obvious and impossible to blend.

I'm not sure how good of a match the two shades specialist paints offer are against the two darker factory shades of typhoon.

Specialist paints' typhoon also flips way more than the original colour. I absolutely love it on mine now but compared to the factory colour it acts completely different.

nu agane paints was offering typhoon which I've seen used on a 53 year typhoon ZT-T with the lighter shade like mine which had the front and rear bumpers resprayed. Flip wise it was a very good match but shade wise you could tell the new paint was a shade or two darker. But is still the closest shade I've seen to the original. Not sure if they still offer it as they stopped doing the rattle cans years ago.

Typhoon is a nightmare colour when it comes to getting bits painted on it unless you have the exact like for like paint.

It’s an 02 plate ZTT. Should be able to get a good paint match. It has a lovely flip to it.

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the information. I'm away for a couple of days so I'll reply when I get back to the Big keyboard.

Malc

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Hi Rick,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
I hadn't realised that there were different shades of this paint!
I bought his paint 2 years ago from Custom Paints Ltd in Sheffield
to have the roof resprayed. To my eye it seemed a very good match.
This time I need to have the front bumper done(after a little shunt )
so it's a discreet area not needing blending in, so hopefully any shade difference won't be too evident.