Petrol Blue

[Mr Underhill]

Just doing a bit of light reading from the official Renault brochure and noticed F94 Paddock Green as a special paint colour on the 182.

No reference to Petrol Blue. So is the latter just made up or is the brochure wrong?

 

[Matt W]

It was re-named to petrol blue at some point

 

[Mr Underhill]

It was re-named to petrol blue at some point

By who? Renault or the community?

 

[Matt W]

By who? Renault or the community?

Renault, looks like you’ve got a very early brochure

 

[Mr Underhill]

Renault, looks like you’ve got a very early brochure

2004. Thanks for the feedback 👍

 

[Clio_fool]

If that's a pic of petrol blue in the brochure it's no wonder nobody bought it.
"so what does this paddock green look like?"
"Well it's blue but in certain light it looks sort of greeny yellowy."
"err OK, I'll have a black one then".

 

[PP200t]

Wasn’t paddock green the earlier colour used in the 172 exclusive and the Megane? Maybe they tweaked the colour and called it petrol blue instead

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

Wasn’t paddock green the earlier colour used in the 172 exclusive and the Megane? Maybe they tweaked the colour and called it petrol blue instead

That was scarab green iirc?

 

[PP200t]

That was scarab green iirc?

Ah yes it was, that’s it. My mistake.
I loved my petrol blue and would’ve done no matter what it was called.

 

[MarcB]

Took a reg from a 182 Petrol Blue and put in into the Renault parts system and it comes out as -

Body colour - Green orion bc (TEF94)

 

[HAP]

Renault decided last minute to rename it from paddock green to petrol blue, that's why if you put a 182 petrol blue into any DVLA database it will come up as green.

 

[HAP]

If that's a pic of petrol blue in the brochure it's no wonder nobody bought it.
"so what does this paddock green look like?"
"Well it's blue but in certain light it looks sort of greeny yellowy."
"err OK, I'll have a black one then".

Exactly my thoughts! 🤣

"How can we describe this colour"
"Get the liquid yellow picture and make it dark!"
"Great idea"

 

[chris_182]

I had one from new, no idea where it is now

 

[HAP]

I had one from new, no idea where it is now

What was the reg?

 

[PP200t]

Just doing a bit of light reading from the official Renault brochure and noticed F94 Paddock Green as a special paint colour on the 182.

No reference to Petrol Blue. So is the latter just made up or is the brochure wrong?

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On that note, that brochure shows arctic blue as a metallic pearlescent illusion paint too, just like the id paint colours? Thought arctic was just metallic, not pearl.

 

[Clio_fool]

On that note, that brochure shows arctic blue as a metallic pearlescent illusion paint too, just like the id paint colours? Thought arctic was just metallic, not pearl.

It says the same for black gold too. That's an extra £2k on the value of my car then 😂.

 

[Pegasaurus Rex]

Black gold does have a (kind of) pearl though, well from a sales brochure perspective. Not sure about artic mind. That was just a boring blue wasn’t it?

 

[Clio_fool]

No arctic is a lovely sparkly blue, much better than racing blue.

 

[Mr Underhill]

No arctic is a lovely sparkly blue, much better than racing blue.

 

[Frenchenstein31]

I’m pretty colourblind so that paddock green looks like a vegan grade black gold.

I’m not so colourblind that I can’t see the scarab green on the ph1 172 exclusives was gorgeous. I would absolutely pay to see a phase 2 in that colour.

 

[HAP]

I’m pretty colourblind so that paddock green looks like a vegan grade black gold.

I’m not so colourblind that I can’t see the scarab green on the ph1 172 exclusives was gorgeous. I would absolutely pay to see a phase 2 in that colour.

On the brochure it looks like a mess but it looks alright in real life.

 

[Clio_fool]

On the brochure it looks like a mess but it looks alright in real life.

Your avatar looks more green than blue. It's a full on Internet optical illusion.

 

[hopgop1]

I can't remember who's car this is, but I saved these two pictures just as a reminder of how different it can look.

 

[HAP]

That's @MLB!

 

[HAP]

Most of the time it looks like this.

But in the summer it's colour comes out!

But it really changes when there's a sunset on a warm dry day.

 

[Crayola]

Monaco does that a bit too, looks almost purple in low light and then bright blue in sunlight. I think Renault nailed it with their choice of paints in the early 2000s. Apart from RB, that's cack

 

[PP200t]

Absolutely love petrol blue and miss mine!

 

[Mr Underhill]

Apart from RB, that's cack

 

[Clio_fool]

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Get over it mate, you bought the gayest colour 💙😂.

 

[Mr Underhill]

Get over it mate, you bought the gayest colour 💙😂.

 

[chris_182]

What was the reg?

KT04 EKV

 

[chris_182]

think it's dead

 

[HAP]

think it's dead

It was sold again back in 2020, and I'm sure its being restored slowly.

 

[Pegasaurus Rex]

That’s the one that went cheap and was noted around FB wit various people trying to make a quick buck. Last I saw of it someone ad resprayed it. I can’t comment on the job, but from photos it looked ok.

 

[tommy01]

think it's dead

Not dead at all buddy very much still alive and going very well... bought the car back last May roughly and based down in South Wales now we are 🤙

 

[hopgop1]

Not dead at all buddy very much still alive and going very well... bought the car back last May roughly and based down in South Wales now we are 🤙

Good to see it's alive and looking good, thought the guy who resprayed it did a good job when he posted about it in here despite all the talk of it being a b**ch of a colour to paint.
New lower grille and maybe fogs too and that'll look mint.

 

[tommy01]

ye to be fair to the lad who painted it he has done a decent job few little spots that I want to get redone but if I didn't point them out you wouldn't notice them really .. and for the grill i been meaning to do it for ages just haven't done it haha

Good to see it's alive and looking good, thought the guy who resprayed it did a good job when he posted about it in here despite all the talk of it being a b**ch of a colour to paint.
New lower grille and maybe fogs too and that'll look mint.

 

[chris_182]

Was thinking about it this weekend, drove it to Le Mans in 2006. Great road trip, apart from when someone shat on the headlight.

 

[HAP]

Was thinking about it this weekend, drove it to Le Mans in 2006. Great road trip, apart from when someone shat on the headlight.

What?! Someone shat ON the headlight?

 

[chris_182]

What?! Someone shat ON the headlight?

and by the driver's door