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I am fixing a small dent at the rear of the fender on a friends 2013 Cruze and the paint code in the glove box is 04Y. Plenty of room for blending any variant, so I went with prime code as this is not a critical job. The car is a dark blue, and 04Y came up as Luxor Blue and was clearly dark blue and looked correct after mixing so I went with it (I didn't have a chip of this one) . As I sprayed the first coat it seemed to spray much brighter then the blue it should have been. When I hit it with my Sun Light, it was clearly the wrong color.
I looked into it more and found the GM has 2013 code 04Y used on 2 different dark blues, Luxor blue (04Y / 933L) and Carbon flash (04Y / 501Q) but 04Y was the only code on the glove box tag. I have never run into this before on the newer WA*** type numbers, I've seen it where the old codes like "23" would be used for 5 years in the 70's as maybe a blue and then reused 15 years later on a different color.
This will be an easy fix, but has anyone run into this before, and I'm more curious as to what possible reason GM would do this, especially on very similar colors.
I looked into it more and found the GM has 2013 code 04Y used on 2 different dark blues, Luxor blue (04Y / 933L) and Carbon flash (04Y / 501Q) but 04Y was the only code on the glove box tag. I have never run into this before on the newer WA*** type numbers, I've seen it where the old codes like "23" would be used for 5 years in the 70's as maybe a blue and then reused 15 years later on a different color.
This will be an easy fix, but has anyone run into this before, and I'm more curious as to what possible reason GM would do this, especially on very similar colors.