Hi everyone,
Been working on repairing rust on my Golf V, sanded down to bare metal to get rid of the rust, repaired the dent using body filler/putty and then applied filler primer. At that point everything was looking really good until I went to SCA to get a custom paint spray can to match the car's colour.
Looking at the identification sticker in the trunk, paint code is LA7W so I gave this to SCA and I've never seen this but the paint code returns like 6 different paints in their system. I mean it defeats the purpose of having a paint code if 1 code refers to multiple colours?
Here's a pic of their software with the 6 colour variants/shades

If you look at the "Description 2" column you can the different shades, redder, lighter, greyer, lighter/bluer and lighter/paler
The SCA guy had no idea and suggested that it would most likely be the standard shade. So I went with the standard version and it's not matching my car's paint.
Does anyone know how to figure out for certain what shade I need to get? Can VW help? Is there a piece if information I missed on the identification sticker in the trunk?
If that helps here's a pic of the golf and its identification sticker located in the trunk.


Hope someone can help
Thanks
Been working on repairing rust on my Golf V, sanded down to bare metal to get rid of the rust, repaired the dent using body filler/putty and then applied filler primer. At that point everything was looking really good until I went to SCA to get a custom paint spray can to match the car's colour.
Looking at the identification sticker in the trunk, paint code is LA7W so I gave this to SCA and I've never seen this but the paint code returns like 6 different paints in their system. I mean it defeats the purpose of having a paint code if 1 code refers to multiple colours?
Here's a pic of their software with the 6 colour variants/shades

If you look at the "Description 2" column you can the different shades, redder, lighter, greyer, lighter/bluer and lighter/paler
The SCA guy had no idea and suggested that it would most likely be the standard shade. So I went with the standard version and it's not matching my car's paint.
Does anyone know how to figure out for certain what shade I need to get? Can VW help? Is there a piece if information I missed on the identification sticker in the trunk?
If that helps here's a pic of the golf and its identification sticker located in the trunk.


Hope someone can help
Thanks
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