Alpinablau color codes? - Page 5 - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

cecottom3 · 12th July 2009, 09:33

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Originally Posted by apbails

Don't despair. I contacted Standox, who provided the paint to Alpina, a couple of years ago for the code. They gave me two formulas for Dunkelsaphirblau-met., code #5014. The first uses a paint system "Standohyd Basecoat" and is for one US quart. Here are the tint codes and amounts, WB372/spezialschwarz 224.5, WB390/silber 270.6, WB394/silber fein 117.0, WB388/azurblau 146.3, WB356/scharlach 87.7, WB357/ozeanblau 87.7, WB355/violett 36.5 all total a cumulative mass of 970.3. The second uses a paint system of "basislack" and is for one US gallon, MB590/silber 767.3, MB585/kolbaltblau 2115.6, MB859/blau 197.2, MB571/teifschwarz 249.5, MB574/ocker 124.2, MB856/scharlach 86.7 all total a cumulative mass of 3540.4 I believe my paint man went with the first formula and it it a stunning color.

Hi Apbails,
Thanks for your valuable information.
I will provide the paint code for my paint shop reference.
Hope I can make the right color same with alpina blue.

kees · 26th September 2009, 19:47

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Originally Posted by kees

That's what I was thinking as well. I know that mid-1980's there seemed to be color shift. The early Saphireblau Metallic color on the E12's had a much more pale-grey hue than the Alpinablau Metallic color on the E28's. And there was definitely a shift to an even more blue hue on the E39's.

Just building on that - are we looking at the following?

1979-1985 Saphireblau Metallic BASF colorcode ??
1986-1994 Blau Metallic (also known as Dunkelsaphireblau Metallic?) BASF colorcode FE 86-5489
1995-1997 Alpinablau Metallic II BASF colorcode FE 95-5489 (is this also FQ 95-3965

)
1997-> Alpinablau Metallic III(?) BASF colorcode FE 97-5489

Just to update this thread with some more parameters.

With the assistance of Jud we've documented a big chunk of E34 B10 BiTurbos. All Alpinablau BiTurbos built between 1991-1994 are FE 86-5489, however a very early 1990 B10 BiTurbo is 95-5489. That kills the theory that the first number in the BASF code indicates the initial year of use...

kees · 26th September 2009, 19:53

Just building on that - are we looking at the following?

1979-1985 Saphireblau Metallic BASF colorcode ??
1986-1994 Blau Metallic BASF colorcode FE 86-5489
1990ish Blau Metallic BASF colorcode 95-5489
1995-1997 Alpinablau Metallic II BASF colorcode FQ 95-3965

1997-> Alpinablau Metallic II(?) BASF colorcode FE 97-5489

nealpina · 27th September 2009, 04:40

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Originally Posted by kees

1995-1997 Alpinablau Metallic II BASF colorcode FQ 95-3965

1997-> Alpinablau Metallic II(?) BASF colorcode FE 97-5489

That does and now makes sense. As my 1997 B3 3.2 ALPINA Blue II has a different shade to an 2002 B10 in ALPINA Blue II

1995 to 1997 could be for the E36, 1997 and onwards for the B10? It seems logical