Car paint colour?

I have a ford focus millenium in need of a re-spray but cannot get the right paint local ford dealer was no use at all. Have also tried local paint shop's who have all given me totally different shades of yellow to the original paint, paint code is either AE, V9 ,is their any one out who could please help me out with the correct colour code PLEASE..................Car paint colour?
well the codes you give -- AE = Alaskan Grey/Cargo 1958 1982





Ford V9 =Lt.Nordic Green M.2c 1998 - 2000





Ford V9 = Strato Silver M.2c 1976 1992





But I think its





Ford V Zinc Yellow 1993 2006 -- the 9 in your case indicates year of manufacture 1999





Been painting cars many years and yellow sucks my friend!... a huge amount of skill/tinting goes into matching yellow for part repaints.... you wont get it out a can to spray on your drive on a sunday afternoon.


In fact I bumped up the estimate on a yellow mg/rover so it would get wrote off rather than even start with the yellow game ;o)





cringes at all the yellow ferraris i painted over the years....





or you can get a paintshop to colormap it.





dont listen to mechanics re paint (free advice)


the spectrometer process isnt as accurate as people think,most times someone at the paint store tints the colour


and we pretend it was done by spectrograph or whatever word we use! It can take the computer days to come up with a colour nothing like it either.





your car is prolly a 1999/2000 right?





You say its in need of a total respray? well why the fuss on how accurate the yellow is? I guarantee a helicopter ride over the Ford yellow compound at the factory would show you the vast differences in shade of same colour.To a pro's eye I would bet money your car isnt the same yellow all the way around!


Get it resprayed,stick to the standard shade,use the same paint manufacturers paint every job after ( keeping original paint wont work as guarantee of match either )





Anyway good luck...oh and watch for EEC regulations coming in stopping sales of car paint etc to public!





PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY :oPCar paint colour?
i own a repair shop and i do a lot of painting ,here's what you need to do go to a paint store that uses the small computer to shoot the color with,they can mix it exactly how it needs to be to match whats there on it now,even thought you use the paint code from it that's still not that accurate,if you,ll use a paint store that shoots the color and then puts it in a computer and lets it figure out what needs to be in it ,i guarantee you it will match,i do this a lot and they have never missed with one yet,good luck i hope this helps.