OPEL car paint 

You are new to the field of body painting and you plan to carry out paint touch-ups on your Opel vehicle. For this, we can help you both on the technique but also on the preparation of your paint made according to the color codes of German cars and in particular the color codes of Opel cars. As a paint manufacturer, we have regularly updated computer software, which allows us to prepare any paint from the Opel brand. To do this, it is first necessary to know the Opel color code. Further down in the article, we show where and how to find this all-important reference for paint prep.

Regarding the offers, all our products are professional qualities, which in no way correspond to products that can be found in supermarkets.
These products are the same as those used by bodywork professionals.
We offer different packaging, with on the one hand aerosol products, i.e. spray paint, and on the other hand products in jars, for users who have a spray gun. paint and a compressor, or those who want to entrust this work to their painter.
Note that the manufacturer's aerosol tints are mixed and filled into the aerosol on the same day of the order. They are therefore made-to-measure and recent paintings.

Opel car color codes

Automotive coatings today are modern paints, easy to apply but technical, extremely durable, both under the effect of the weather and under the influence of the sun's rays, and endowed with a high quality aesthetic.
The protection of the metal body against corrosion, as well as the protection of the paint and the colors, is ensured by an extremely resistant varnish, which is on the surface of the paint.
As a result, paint today has only a decorative character, in which new pigment and color technologies play a central role: very far from the colors of the 1960s, the 2000s saw the development of tints metallic and pearlescent, which offer more luminosity, brilliance and depth, compared to the opaque and “flat” shades of the 20th century.

Since the majority of modern colors are metallic, contemporary paints are therefore paints that are made in 2 steps (base + clearcoat). The Opel color code is therefore mixed in the base version to be varnished. It is a single-component Opel paint, ready to use, that is to say that it must be put in the spray gun, without having to mix hardener.
A clearcoat is a paint that dries very quickly, is very thin and easy to paint, and most Opel metallic or pearl color codes are imperatively clearcoats.

Why can't we prepare them like glossy topcoats, like before ? The reason is simple : if one applies glossy pearlescent paints, then it requires a certain time to dry, evaporate, or harden, and during these far too long minutes, the pigments and pearlescent begin to move, even when painting on a horizontal surface : this creates so-called smearing, which is an unavoidable defect with paints with the color code of OPEL two-component pearl or metallic cars.

The history of the manufacturer OPEL

It would be hard to guess but Opel is perhaps the oldest car company in the world since it was founded in 1862 by Adam Opel in Germany. However, like many pioneering automotive companies, the early business did not match that of today. That is to say that the manufacture of automobiles came during the beginning of the 20th century, through a process of adaptation to the market and to demand: most of the companies were originally invested in the metal trades and machinery, and this is the case of Opel which was an engineering and manufacturing company for sewing machines, the beginnings of which began in a barn converted into a factory.

The automobile was born in 1899 and Opel, already well developed, seized his chance by buying a production plant, to start producing motorcycles in 1901. Despite a serious accident in 1911, which destroyed a good part of the factory, Opel is a prosperous and dynamic company, so much so that in 1914, it is already the first German producer of automobiles ahead of Mercedes.

It later became the property of General Motors, which he bought, then in the 21st century, Peugeot Citroën (PSA) bought it. From the years 2015, until 2020, we can see a decline in activity and especially sales.

Where to find the color code of your Opel car ?

We can help you validate a color code or color name by email but we can't find the code for you. Indeed, it is not possible to find a code with the name of a model or a year. There are hundreds of codes for the Opel brand alone, and it is up to the owner to find the location of this information, the famous color code, on the bodywork :

For OPEL brand vehicles, the plate mentioning the color code (vinplate) can be found in two different places.
- Inside the engine compartment.
- On the right front door leaf (passenger side).
You can take help from the images provided below which illustrates the location.
The color code is always made up of three characters (letters or numbers) Stardustcolors offers the original paints in a solvent-based (primer, base, clearcoat) or direct gloss version.

The iconic colors of Opel cars

In our colorimetry software, that is to say the computer system allowing to search for color and find its recipe, the Opel database is coupled with that of General Motors. Here are some colors of the Opel brand, which can serve as an example for you to recognize the formation of a color code, which is not easy, because often, the plates found on the bodywork contain a multitude of references:
An Opel paint color code always consists of 2 to 3 characters and this code also corresponds to a color name. The color name is never present on the bodywork.

Code / Opel color name / Years of operation

006 BRILLIANT SILVER 2000
01D DARK BRAHMA JEWEL 2008 -
01L STARSILBER 3 2009 - 2012
01Q CARBON FLASH 2006 -
02 COBALT RED 2005 - 2013

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