FORD car paint 

The first thing to do when you have a scratch on your body and you own a Ford vehicle is to find out what its paint reference is and if it is available from the database of American car color codes, including FORD car color codes. , or alternatively go to a professional automotive paint store providing this Ford paint code.
Ford is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world and for this reason has accumulated an immense amount of color references since its inception in the early 20th century.

The manufacturer's color palette is exceptionally rich, not only in the colors but also in the choice of names that have been assigned to them.
You should know that the reference base of the American car manufacturer has been divided into 3 parts: the American base, the European base, the Australian base, because there are slight variations according to the continents.
In summary, the first thing to do is to discover this famous code which is somewhere on your car body.

The car color codes of the FORD

The manufacturer's choice for the reference of its paint colors complies with international standards. However, we can find some oddities there, for example with single-digit codes, such as code 1, code 2 or even 3!
We can also find in the "Europe" database quite complex references on the contrary of 6 characters, mix of numbers and letters.

This international organization for listing and classifying colors in the form of an alphanumeric code and globally accepted by all car manufacturers. The objective of this organization is to avoid errors on the part of the various players, ie manufacturers, sellers, customers, repairers or painters. The formation of a color code based on numbers and even letters, can however leave room for errors, when manufacturers have chosen the same code. To reinforce this classification system, a second datum has been introduced.
This second information which is the name of the color, is added for example a Ford color code, not only to give it a commercial indication, often flattering with a nice color name, but also to constitute a double verification , and thus eliminate any risk of confusion between 2 different automotive colors but which have the same Ford color code.

The history of the manufacturer FORD

Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. The story begins in 1896. Henry Ford built his own first car, which was not a tricycle as was done in Europe, but a quadricycle, as he himself even chose to call it.
The Detroit-based company has always been under family control. Ford has owned during its history international luxury brands like Aston Martin, or even Jaguar, Rover and Volvo.

Ford has passed all the hardships that have come its way and its history for 120 years, including the crisis of the 1930s, which many companies did not survive, as well as 2 world wars. Like many other brands, the road to success for the manufacturer Ford has been marked by difficulties, and this company has today become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

Where to find the color code of your FORD car ?

Our database includes several hundred color code references for cars from the American manufacturer FORD. Trust our technician who paints (solvent-based only) in varnish base or direct gloss.
For Ford paint, note that colors with pearlescent or metallic particles are only available in varnish base .

For FORD brand vehicles, the plate mentioning the color code (vinplate) can be found in three different places:
- Inside the engine compartment
- On the door of the Driver's side door (Left Side)
- On the door leaf of the passenger's side (Right Side)
You can take help from the images provided below which illustrates the location.
The color code is always composed of 1 to 6 characters (letters or numbers).

The iconic colors of FORD cars

Here is a sample of our base where you can clearly see some examples of Ford paint references, with in the first column color code, in the second column the name or designation of the color, then the base in which the code belongs, and then the year of operation.

36 Juice Green Ford (Europe) 1994 - 2002
37 Juice Green Ford (Europe) 1994 - 2002
37 Ocean Ford (Europe) 2006 - 2017
37 Silbergrau Ford (Europe) 1965 - 1972
37L WINNING BLUE FORD (EUROPE) 2009 -
37M  COPPER RED FORD (EUROPE) 2009 -
37N  DARK GREEN FORD (EUROPE) 2011 -
37P B ZE RON FORD (EUROPE) 2010 -

Today, the American manufacturer's emblematic colors are quite different from what they were 20 or 30 years ago, thanks to the generalization of pigmented paints based on mother-of-pearl and aluminum pigments, as well as transparent shades, to give much more attractive, deep and luminous colors, because that is what paint is for: attracting customers like a bee on the petals of a colorful flower...

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