Please help with paint code - 2 tins in and colour match is awful

Hi there, I'm hoping someone can help me with getting some celly paint to match the car

here is the sticker in the boot:



I googled this and got monacoblau
got it mixed up and this is the result:



so either they mixed it wrong or I got the wrong code (LA5D) I need to get this done so I can paint the windscreen surround and then get a screen fitted for the MOT.
Thanks in advance

looking at the 2 pics the top colour looks like the stuff on the paper on the left but thats just the poor flash on my phone....the paint on the right in the lower photo is the car!

Was the car repainted at some stage. If you can find someone with a spectrometer it will match the colour for you. I have one at work if you. Could post a small piece to me 

What year and model is your golf?

It's an 81 1.1c. I don't think it's been painted since new tbh.
 Cheers

The light blue on the right looks like lago blue LA5B I think. 
slip if the finger in the paint mixer?

looking at the google images for lago blue, it looks a lot lighter here is a pic of the car:

Not even close are they mate. I would say as above that it's a slip of the finger and a mistake.

Yes, but look at the first picture showing the boot sticker.
Comparing the paint sample to that as the paint inside is less likely to have been altered, so it may well been of repainted.

Also remeber that paint fades over the years with sun/uva attack etc. Not sure it would be this much out though.
Dent doc is right you need a spectrometer really to get it right or youll end up with loads of blue paint that don't match. I had this with my Helios blue cabby, apparently there are 3 shades of helios blue all year dependant.

just looking about how does PargasBlau LB5A look?

Lago blue seems more like it.

chortle said

just looking about how does PargasBlau LB5A look?

not great:

How much would it cost to cut your losses and just respray the whole lot??

smudger1980 said

How much would it cost to cut your losses and just respray the whole lot??

well thats a lot of prep, my plan is to respray eventually in solid nimbus grey. But to get MOT, tax and coilovers for this season

then AFH conversion next winter

and paint the following year….

Ah ok mate. Hope you can get a spectrometer to asisst you in sorting it out  

sent the pics to the paint guys, they say the chip looks like the paint mixed, so next step is to take a sample to them. Sadly the smallest "sample" would be the damn bonnet!

You're not having much luck mate are you.  

If you could get a flake the size of a matchbox and post it to me ill get a match for it 

Thanks for the offer Dentdoc, there is no flaky paint (well topcoat at least) on it that I can see...

my old chevy truck had various bits that unbolted, this is one solid slab! Damn you German engineering

(plus the truck was from the 50s)