What color is my car?
02-10-2009, 05:03 PM
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2006 BMW 525i. When I bought it, the dealer called it Orient Blue Metallic. The tag inside the driver's door says "317" which corresponds to Orient Blue Metallic. But inside the engine compartment is a tag saying "monacoblau."
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02-10-2009, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Low5' post='789939' date='Feb 10 2009, 09:03 PM
2006 BMW 525i. When I bought it, the dealer called it Orient Blue Metallic. The tag inside the driver's door says "317" which corresponds to Orient Blue Metallic. But inside the engine compartment is a tag saying "monacoblau."
Anyone?
Anyone?
02-11-2009, 03:38 AM
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It looks like Orient Blue,but it is difficult to be 100% shure from a picture. Both Orient an Monaco is dark blue.And at some point Monaco replaced Orient in the colour charts,but I am not shure when this happend.
02-11-2009, 05:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Morten523' post='790209' date='Feb 11 2009, 07:38 AM
It looks like Orient Blue,but it is difficult to be 100% shure from a picture. Both Orient an Monaco is dark blue.And at some point Monaco replaced Orient in the colour charts,but I am not shure when this happend.
02-11-2009, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Low5' post='789939' date='Feb 11 2009, 04:03 AM
2006 BMW 525i. When I bought it, the dealer called it Orient Blue Metallic. The tag inside the driver's door says "317" which corresponds to Orient Blue Metallic. But inside the engine compartment is a tag saying "monacoblau."
Anyone?
Anyone?
Code 317 is definetely Orient Blue, see this http://pcporadna.yw.sk/down/BMW_Color_Codes.pdf
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02-11-2009, 08:08 AM
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another source is to pop open the hood. on the passenger side there should be a black or silver sticker that says BMW, then the color, and the color code is usually on the bottom left of the sticker.
02-11-2009, 08:41 AM
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What color blue?? 
I don't really know, but after seeing your picture, I think the bigger question would be "How do you drive that thing?" 
I don't really know, but after seeing your picture, I think the bigger question would be "How do you drive that thing?"
02-11-2009, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Low5' post='789939' date='Feb 11 2009, 04:03 AM
2006 BMW 525i. When I bought it, the dealer called it Orient Blue Metallic. The tag inside the driver's door says "317" which corresponds to Orient Blue Metallic. But inside the engine compartment is a tag saying "monacoblau."
You didn't buy it as new? If not, it may have been in a crash!?
Usually the engine compartment tag saying "monacoblau" is the fact.
Orient and Monaco Blue's are really close colors.
Call the dealer for the facts!