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      02-21-2018, 06:32 PM   #14
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I don't think you or anyone can tell you unless they work for BMW and are involved with the manufacturing process. This was brought up many times during the E9X years and someone chimed in stating that no one, or at least anyone in North American can get or use the exact paint that BMW uses in their paint process. Even BMW body shops don't have the exact brand, instead they resort to using industry paint and paint through specified guidelines to match as close as possible.

So your best bet is to ask a BMW body shop which paint they use and go from there but like others said, good luck trying to match paint on your own when the paint you're likely to use is already not matching. Perhaps alpine white (non-metallic) would be a lot mor easier than say metallic paint where you have to deal with flakes.
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