308 wheel touch up paint

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Fer101

 

I could not get Fer101 to come up on the site.

 

Thank you William, my wheels are in great shape but the idea of having some touch up paint seems like a good one.

 

I might be pointing out "the bleedin' obvious" here, but if you get the paint and want to test the colour match first, do it on the inner face of the rim where it wont be seen on the car.

 

Sometimes it's hard to tell how good the colour match really is until it's actually on the car/wheel (and silver paint can be a right bugger to match up!).

A guy at work did a DIY repair on one of his alloy wheels that he'd curbed and he did a nice job of the repair but, having been sold "the correct shade of silver" for his wheels, when I saw the car it was immediately obvious that it was a shade too dark compared to the other wheels.

When I pointed it out to him he said: "I know! - I was hoping it wasn't that noticeable!"

I asked him why he hadn't tried the paint on the inside of the wheel, to which he replied: "Yeah, that might have been a better idea!".

After a week he ended up painting the other three wheels to match the first restored wheel (something he was hoping to not have to do, thereby tempting fate obviously!).

When asked why he didn't just get another can of silver in the next shade up and repaint the one wheel again, he said: "I'd rather spend a weekend painting the other wheels than spend more money on a can of paint that still might be wrong!"

 

Maybe I didn't follow this closely enough. You need to repaint all four (or five) wheels. FER 101 is the correct paint but your paint has likely faded. If you do not repaint all four, the difference will show.

I had a local company do it for $150/wheel. I located the paint/color for them.

 

It works just as well if you merely paint the two on the same side of the car since your tires are most likely directionally oriented anyway and won't be rotated to the opposite side of the car

 

Stick with them, they are the best. No one is going to have a color for "wheel paint."

Check the board we know it is FER 101. Check the board for FER 101 and find a corresponding year and model (I'll give you a hint, it's just Ferrari's version of silver). Basically the color of any silver Ferrari. Try the year your car was built.

Go to paint scratch website, put that make and model in, select the color that looks like silver and you are done.

Cheers,

Ken

 

Here it is from 1981:

Color Code: 101

Argento Metallic

 

Yep. Ferrari is a simple company. Why use a different color for wheels when can use one of your stock body colors: Silver?

 

This is great news. Thank you for figuring this out.

I touched up a few spots on my wheels earlier this year and custom mixed the color:
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/308-328/458881-308-qv-16-wheel-touch-up-paint.html

 

Humbrol #11. Laugh if you want, it worked pretty nicely:

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/detailing-showroom/417964-quick-easy-wheel-rash-fix.html

 

Is that the same color for the 328 wheels?

 

The tints/metallic makeup of silver have probably changed through the years. I would use the silver color that matches the year of your car.

 

It's not everybody who paints all four wheels because the have a scratch mark on one of them! - Spending $600 because of a scratch on one wheel? - Really?

 

Usually wheels that are 30-40 years old need to be redone. $600 to have them look new? It was easily the best $600 I've spent making the car look new.

Really!

My only regret is I didn't spend $750 getting them all done. But I think I will buy a $25 rattle can from paint scratch and do the spare myself.

 

The color code is FER 101 or FER 101/C?

thank you very much

ciao

 

Those are the Ferrari codes. Paintscratch has their own. Just go to their website enter your year and pick the silver Ferrari color. Go with the two part system. The single needs to be polished.