Originally Posted by M5 Powered (Post 88820)

Hi Yanto,

The OEM wheels have a chromey almost blueish look to them. Some refurb places call it high power silver but nearly none carry the original paint / code as shown in the members area.

My pal's wheels (which are in the for sale section) have just gone to Rimfurbish (Team Dynamics) in Westbrom along with the OEM paint code. They have said they can match OEM and will apply the correct base primer so we shall see.

The one thing with Lepsons, while they are good, they tend to coat over existing finishes if the wheel isn't badly damaged, rather than taking it back to bare alloy. This also increases the tendency for the paint to chip off under flex (as happened with my old M5). They fixed it, but complete bastard sending one wheel to Swindon and it wasn't quite the same colour when it came back.

Best

Jonathan

Originally Posted by Yanto (Post 88750)

Chaps,

Went to Lepsons at the weekend to get my original set looked at / refurb price etc after the McDonalds drive through incident a while back.

Anyway, the chap there said they are currently sprayed a different colour to original....some other "silver" colour and not the "silver chrome" colour of the original..

Is this right ? Cant say I have ever noticed the difference in pics and parked alongside fellow owner cars. Not concerned about authenticity of the wheels as they have all the correct stamps, but I can only think they have been incorrectly sprayed the wrong colour on a previous refurb and the previous owner (s) not noticed...

So IS silver chrome the original colour ??

Yours confused....

Originally Posted by Mark CSL (Post 155504)

Yanto this is the real paint they are done with its in the members only section dont post on any fourms please it took me 3 years to find out :-D

http://www.cslregister.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2066

Originally Posted by Neil M (Post 179239)

'Silver Chrome' is the nearest match to the OEM finish that you'll get from a refurbisher such as Lepsons, which isn't that bad a match.
If you start quoting paint codes be prepared for the price to increase substantially as it will probably be termed a 'Custom' finish. :whistle:

Originally Posted by flamez (Post 179275)

Ok so I went to BMW today to ask for the paint code as I cant view the thread and nobody here seems to wanna give it to me lol

they took my reg number and came back with a few different codes they showed me with german names but wasn't sure which one it was, so they said they would speak to their wheel refurb team and give me a call once they confirm the right colour.

Originally Posted by Mark CSL (Post 179278)

The paint code is in the members only section
you have to pay to become a member :thumbs:
it took me 3 years to get the right paint code for the CSL wheels
i dont want it all over the net :whistle:

Originally Posted by LeinsCSL (Post 179295)

@flamez, if you're a CSL owner why don't you become a member on here? It's pretty cheap and helps keep this valuable resource for all of us going.

Originally Posted by billyboysm3 (Post 179474)

Not even bmw Dealers use the correct paint.

Originally Posted by jairrel (Post 201922)

The colour code is A55. Not all paint suppliers have this.

Greetings.

Originally Posted by Paulgreatheadcsl (Post 202157)

Anymore info on this paint code? Grey base coat or black and if they haven't cot the code what's the closest colour?