jetute Donating Members 4,553 Member For: 21y 24d Gender: Male Location: brisbane Posted 11/05/05 04:22 AM Share Posted 11/05/05 04:22 AM Trust me. as a long term Silhouette owner who gets obsenely close to his car (see wash counter) the fleck is blue. Any gold (a la WRX Sti Black) is an impostor.I can look up the paint code if the forum really wants it...cheersI'm not questioning this.. the only reason I asked was I didn't know if there was a difference, but it's clear that the blue is factory.. we both have the same ST paint code and he was told from the origional owner that the car hadn't been changed or damaged since purchase, but somethings not right somewhere.. we're only trying to work out how this can've happened. A vehicle inspection by RACQ showed no signs of damage repairs.is the flake added or premixed... could of been a factory blunder maybe?? is itr a 2 component paint and the mix is wrong?? if so the gold flake could be dominant but the blue flake is actually in there too??Fcuks me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mal Guests Posted 11/05/05 04:29 AM Share Posted 11/05/05 04:29 AM is the flake added or premixed... could of been a factory blunder maybe?? is itr a 2 component paint and the mix is wrong?? if so the gold flake could be dominant but the blue flake is actually in there too??Fcuks me <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Theres's absolutely no blue fleck in the paint.. we've had the car under several different light sources hoping to find inconsistancies in the paintwork, but can find none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kato Member 184 Member For: 21y 2m 9d Location: Brisbane Posted 11/05/05 04:39 AM Share Posted 11/05/05 04:39 AM Probably hasn't been biffed, more likely the original owner couldn't live with the poor quality factory paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOOT Member 1,201 Member For: 21y 8m 7d Location: Birkdale Posted 11/05/05 08:35 AM Share Posted 11/05/05 08:35 AM Blue fleck people - my MY05 WRX has blue fleck as well, the MY04 model had gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo6man Lifetime Members 4,084 Member For: 22y 4m 15d Gender: Male Location: South Coast NSW Posted 11/05/05 08:45 AM Share Posted 11/05/05 08:45 AM ST is the code for Silhouette. Silhouette ONLY has blue fleck. Harvest Green and Mandarin have gold fleck. Unless they was some kind of stuff-up in the factory when it was painted then it has been resprayed. You can usually tell if a car has been resprayed because it looks a lot better than the factory job and actually has paint all over. :spoton: Also there will be no orange-peel effect like you get with the factory paint job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicksy still kicking around Member 1,789 Member For: 21y 11m 4d Gender: Male Location: Mackay Posted 11/05/05 01:49 PM Share Posted 11/05/05 01:49 PM I did not know harvest green had a gold fleck I might go check 2morrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcook Member 752 Member For: 20y 6m 7d Location: leonay Posted 12/05/05 12:45 AM Share Posted 12/05/05 12:45 AM just repaint it... mandarin... and youll have no problems then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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