Merlot Red paint - where to get a real match

[robsm1th]

The legit match sticks for Merlot Red (burgundy to you or I) are way way way off the colour on the car. I've bought two - one from ebay and one from local bmw garage.

1. Why have they made the colour sticks so far off what they should and

2. More importantly has anyone found a paint stick that is the right colour match (or at least close to it)?

[AlanJ]

Red paint is one of the softest pain finishes commercialy used on vehicles and hence it can fade from the original fairly quickly (in relative terms) - depends how old your Zed is as to how effective the colour match with paint stick, just one of those things.

[robsm1th]

Wow that means six years ago the car wasn't far off black - interesting. My old mazda mx5 had a paint stick that wasn't far off and I bought that car when it was ten years old. Germans are usually better at these sort of things so that's a surprise.

Love the car by the way - just a minor gripe.

Might have to get some colour matched @ b&q or somewhere daft then (if their paint can be put on a car - it certainly went on fire to the garage door - painted fairly similar in colour to my z4 - yeah sad I know - colour matched garage to car colour).

Thanks for responding & that's one scary image against your profile.

[AlanJ]

Thanks for responding & that's one scary image against your profile.

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