RENAULT car paint 

When you go to your garage to your body painter, following a slight scratch that you want to remove or an impact on the bodywork, this professional will consult the color codes of French cars, and in particular, the color codes of Renault cars, in a database comprising hundreds of Renault color codes and original color formulas.
The Renault manufacturer establishes a color code for each vehicle color and compiles them in its Renault paint lists which bring together nearly 70 years of automobile production.

If you want to save some money and do without the services of a garage, it is possible to divide the price of the operation of a touch-up by 5, by obtaining the paints yourself from a store professional body paints and doing the job yourself !

Realizing touch-up paint is within everyone's reach as soon as you have your Renault tint, either with a paint gun if you have one, or with aerosols.
With a few cans of paint and varnish, and a little sandpaper, it is perfectly possible to repaint a car fender and obtain an excellent result, without a paint booth.

If you don't know anything about the technique of painting, it costs nothing to take 5 minutes to read and study the relatively simple application methods of the products on sale in online stores.

Renault car color codes

If we take the example of the most famous and best-selling model by the diamond brand, the Clio, here are some examples of paint references, to get an idea, of paint references for RENAULT CLIO :

We can see two different types of info, the code and the name (Black Star Met : means Metallic). Both are valid for researching a paint formulation computer system.
In general, the Renault color code can be found very easily, by looking carefully at certain locations in the vehicle. See next paragraph.
The tint, made according to the original Renault color codes, takes the form of a paint which is called in professional jargon, a "matt base". it is in fact a simple and ready-to-use paint which is applied with a spray gun and which has the particularity of having to be varnished.
To sum up, we first apply the paint, then immediately, the transparent finishing varnish, whose usefulness is both aesthetic with its high shine, and protective against water, scratches and all types of aggressors that can attack Renault paintwork and metal bodywork.

The history of the manufacturer RENAULT

The manufacturer Renault, born in 1898, has gone through more than a century of French history, with two world wars along the way, strikes, nationalizations... Originally, this family business was called " Renault Brothers”. It will during its history change hands and form on many occasions and its leaders have shown a great sense of adaptation by facing all types of crises, until 1990 when it returns to a stable form. , an SA (stock company). The first Renault models were born at the dawn of automobile history, they were built on tricycle frames with very little bodywork and equipped with a real gearbox. These carts were then considered luxury machines and reserved for very wealthy customers. One hundred years later, the clio models are born and are produced in tens of millions of copies...

Where to find the color code of your RENAULT car ?

For RENAULT brand vehicles, the plate mentioning the color code (vinplate) is located :
- On the leaf of the front right door (passenger side)
You can help yourself with the images provided below which illustrates the location.
The color code is always composed of three characters (letters or numbers).

How can we tell us the Renault paint color ?
It's very simple, when you order, a window for comments opens. You can put your color code there.
Without a color code, our colorist will be able to do a search, but there is no guarantee of finding your shade !

The emblematic colors of Renault cars

The No. 1 French manufacturer Renault has released several hundred shades of Renault paint since the release of its 1946 Renault 4CV. Renault paint is carefully prepared in our labs, by a professional colorist, using reference software updated regularly.
Manufacturer colors for cars and motorcycles are prepared with a binder base (matte or direct gloss base), mother-of-pearl or aluminum pigments and opaque or transparent dyes.
Here are some of the most famous Renault color codes taken at random from a database of nearly 200 hundred references:*

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