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Paint Code - Helios Blue

Please help, I've always thought and been lead to beleive that my car is Helious Blue, but some people have commented that it's slightly 'off' of the exact match.
Last year at E38 there was a guy in a Mk1 parked near the show inspection tent in a Helios Blue Mk1 which was identical in colour and shade to mine, but during a chat with him he mentioned that there were two Helios Blues, one was the LA5Y and the other which is his / my colour which I cannot for the life of me remember the code of.
By any chance does anyone know what the code is for this 'other' Helios Blue??
Thanks in advance

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LC7W - Papillion Silver Helios.   :dontknow:

LC9Y - Luxury Black Helios.   :dontknow:

There are places where you can check what it actually is though. have a search on the forum, and you should be able to locate it.  :D

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have a look in your boot, on the back of the seat you should have a sticker with the paint code on. helios blue is LA5Y, ( like one of mine )
the nearest i know of to that colour is inka blue, which is also a metallic the code for that is LK5T

83  1.5 gl all black                          sold
86  1.8 gti cab all black light mods.   restoring
87  1.8gti cab standard helios blue.   daily driver
91  1.8 auto cab gold clipper.           breaking

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thanks for the pointers, the search continues. I seem to recall that he said it was only available in Germany, which I can't quite understand!!! how could the paint booth at Wolfsburg cope with two Helios Blues that are so close to each other in shade!!!

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Could it be LB5Y as this appears on the German Site:
http://www.doppel-wobber.de/wbb2/golf_info.php?id=56

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From My understanding there are more than 2 shades of Helios Blue.
I believe that the lighter version was used on the earlier tin tops. But the Darker shade which I believe is supposed to have a purple hue to it was used later inc cabbies.
I had issues as when my car went in for a service the mechanic dropped the air tool on my wing top and dented it. It went to the body shop and came out in a light silvery blue colour  :banghead: I had to complain about that. Eventually they had to bring a paint specialist in to match the paint.

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theres two heliosblau shades la5y and lv5y, and theres hellblau which comes in about 13 different shades,
 any compotent body shop should be able to get a very close match with inhouse charts and colour maps, if not get it analyzed that probably wont give you the code but it will give you a formulation for the colour.

rob







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