Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?

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Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?

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Hello ! I am the proud new owner of a 216 GTi and need to do some touch up painting. The car has zero paperwork, can one of you clever lot tell me the paint name/code just from looking or a way to establish it ? It does appear to be two colours, the majority of the car is the more golden of the two tones. Thanks ! Alex, Hertfordshire
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Passenger b pillar there is a metal tab on it that has the paint and trim codes.

Then check it against this list:

https://www.mg-rover.org/threads/rover- ... st.289950/
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'NK' leapt off the pic at me. A 'local' reg. So good to have another member in Herts!
Hope you have good luck with it.
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RoverRevival wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:05 am Passenger b pillar there is a metal tab on it that has the paint and trim codes.

Then check it against this list:

https://www.mg-rover.org/threads/rover- ... st.289950/
................and when you've done that, you should find that it is Pulsar Silver over Tempest Grey :wink3
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220 GSi turbo wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:43 am ...............and when you've done that, you should find that it is Pulsar Silver over Tempest Grey :wink3
As I've yet to see any two colour combination for the R8 be anything other than "Insert Colour Here" over Tempest Grey, was Tempest Grey the only lower colour used in the 2 colour R8's?
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hi there ive a Rover 216 Cabriolet in nightfire red whats the paint code please and sorry to jump on to this post folks :)
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roverman2020 wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:07 pm hi there ive a Rover 216 Cabriolet in nightfire red whats the paint code please and sorry to jump on to this post folks :)
COQ :wink3
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ok thank you i was on ebay and a guy had touch up paints with two different codes so theres only one :)
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Only one code for night fire
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I thought there were 2 codes for Nightfire Red - CAQ and COQ, although most references to them suggest they are actually the same colour, just a different formulation. There is, apparently, also a later NFR III which is different, code CBT, but the OP's car won't be this one. I have an old NFR door, that I obtained to replace one on my Tourer and they don't look quite the same - I believe the door came from an older car - but it might just have faded differently.

Anyway, if you look at the VIN plate on the N/S "B" pillar there will be the 3 letter paint code.
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