Help with Colours

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Help with Colours

Post by ScottRS4 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:54 am

I am looking for a Dark Grey B7 Avant :blackrs4:

I have a sales brochure for the B7 RS 4 dated 10/08 2008 model year

In the brochures it shows swatches of available standard colours
it shows 3 Silver / Grey colours: picture below

Avus Silver, pearl effect (light silver)
Daytona Grey, pearl effect (darker than the silver)
Silver, metallic which looks darker than the Daytona Grey

I have only ever seen the Avus and Daytona Grey.

Does anybody know if the Silver which is darker than the Daytona
was produced/used? Or is it a case that some people don't know they have
a Silver Metallic car and just call it Daytona? :(
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by C17LJR » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:13 am

I'm colour blind so may be wrong... But I certainly wouldn't be using that as correct colours.

For a start, none of those are metallic/pearl, and Daytona is darker than both the Daytona and silver in that image

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Re: Help with Colours

Post by Spectre » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:55 am

Real men drive black ones...

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Re: Help with Colours

Post by neilparf » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:27 pm

The black Avant is Silas's old Phantom Black pearl...

The colour swatches, frankly are nothing like the cars in real life if viewing a PDF - the printed brochure would carry far more accurate swatches.

I have a Silver Metallic (5B5B) was indeed used and produced and I would say whilst the swatch looks darker, it actually isn't in the flesh...

Here's mine -
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by RIV » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:42 pm

The wheels on my black Avant above,they are black with a flick of silver
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by ScottRS4 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:45 pm

Thanks for ALL your replies

RE neilparf reply. I have the printed brochure and it shows 3 Greys/Silvers
Avus Silver pearl effect, Daytona Grey pearl effect and Silver metallic which looks darkest of the 3.
I understand that the print process used printing a brochure can't match exactly the same colours used
on the cars.
Would just like to know is Daytona the darkest Grey or the Silver metallic?
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by Outtlaw » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:56 pm

Daytonas the darkest
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by neilparf » Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:09 pm

Outtlaw wrote:Daytonas the darkest
+1 Yep Daytona is the darkest...

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthrea ... na-grey-S4
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2007 RS4 B7 Saloon, Metallic Silver with SS+.
LED's all round and Dectane LED tailights. KDS detail and paint. Lepsons black chrome, heavy on the silver wheels. JCWeldFab full system - valved and no pre-cats. MRC stage 2, de-flap and full carbon clean - 438PS and 489NM. HEL brake lines. H&R Spacers. Gtechniq C1 and EXO V2 coatings. 2010+ RNS-E. On the MRC dyno: http://youtu.be/y_k0VJ2--y8
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by 54Kab » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:40 pm

- - Yep, ignore the sales brochure.

Silver Metallic (5B5B) is a 'straight' silver
Avus is a bluey silver
Daytona is dark grey
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by murph7355 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:04 pm

Avus is the second best colour for an RS4.

Daytona probably third.

Silver to me was a bit bland looking and masked rather than enhanced the curves.

I'll never own another black car so black for me was a no go.

In terms of darkness, agree with the above. Silver then Avus then Daytona.
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by neilparf » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:13 pm

murph7355 wrote:Avus is the second best colour for an RS4.

Daytona probably third.

Silver to me was a bit bland looking and masked rather than enhanced the curves.

I'll never own another black car so black for me was a no go.

In terms of darkness, agree with the above. Silver then Avus then Daytona.
There's a sea of Daytona, Black, Avus etc.

Disagree - the silver is rarer as colours go and it definitely does the curves no harm!

I am biased, however...
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2007 RS4 B7 Saloon, Metallic Silver with SS+.
LED's all round and Dectane LED tailights. KDS detail and paint. Lepsons black chrome, heavy on the silver wheels. JCWeldFab full system - valved and no pre-cats. MRC stage 2, de-flap and full carbon clean - 438PS and 489NM. HEL brake lines. H&R Spacers. Gtechniq C1 and EXO V2 coatings. 2010+ RNS-E. On the MRC dyno: http://youtu.be/y_k0VJ2--y8
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by rocket1 » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:08 am

I arranged to go view a silver avant before I bought my Daytona. All the pics of silver car looked great but the arrangements never came off. Daytona is the one to have there cracking in the right light the metal fleck is great.
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Re: Help with Colours

Post by Bladerider » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:14 am

Very old pic, but...Avus...

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Re: Help with Colours

Post by victor2vt » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:29 am

rocket1 wrote:I arranged to go view a silver avant before I bought my Daytona. All the pics of silver car looked great but the arrangements never came off. Daytona is the one to have there cracking in the right light the metal fleck is great.
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