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Old 18-10-2007, 01:24 PM
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right lads and gents ... respraying my fezza now were a bit quiet at work but to be honest diamond white looks yellow and crap i was thinking of vauxhall glacier white? but someone told me theres a diamond white variant called blueshell is this true?????
Old 18-10-2007, 01:32 PM
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What about Fozen white from the Focus ST?
Old 18-10-2007, 01:37 PM
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hmmmm.. never thought of that mate ill have a butchers
Old 18-10-2007, 01:54 PM
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Use the shade of diamond white used on the late 70's/early 80's fords, as it is apparently alot whiter, if you get me.
Old 18-10-2007, 04:01 PM
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porsche white
Old 18-10-2007, 04:48 PM
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I worked in body shops for a while and from what i remmeber looking at one of our old microfiche's there are 52 shades of diamond white out and there.
Old 18-10-2007, 04:51 PM
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glacier is the brightest white but doesnt sound right painting a ford a vauxhall colour lol

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Old 18-10-2007, 05:20 PM
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just use pure white off the paint scheme

but u might want to wear sunglasses when lookin at it lol
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Shade 1 diamond white looks good
Old 18-10-2007, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by GUZZLER
Shade 1 diamond white looks good
thats what mine was done in its almost pure white
Old 18-10-2007, 06:44 PM
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i painted mine glacier white





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I believe MattSabb painted his S1 turbo vauxhall glacier white, looked pretty good
Old 18-10-2007, 07:54 PM
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Ford Frozen White is better
Old 18-10-2007, 07:55 PM
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go for subaru 51 e,i did my old impreza in that looked so clean
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This is the difference between diamond white and frozen white.. diamond in the middle obviously



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i like diamond white personally. The lighter whites look 'thin'
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cheers lads i think im going glacier white just seen a freshly painted fezza in that and it looks
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