
Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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/
Then check it against this list:
https://www.mg-rover.org/threads/rover- ... st.289950/
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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
'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.
Hope you have good luck with it.
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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
................and when you've done that, you should find that it is Pulsar Silver over Tempest GreyRoverRevival wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 7:05 amPassenger 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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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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?220 GSi turbo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:43 am...............and when you've done that, you should find that it is Pulsar Silver over Tempest Grey![]()
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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
COQroverman2020 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:07 pmhi 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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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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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Re: Paint name/code for 1990 216 GTi - Quicksilver/Platinum ?
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.
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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