MK4 GTI

[MORTAMIR]

What color is this GTI? OEM?

 

[MORTAMIR]

MK4 Paint Codes
LA5W - blue lagoon
LW5Z - jazz blue
LA7W - reflex silver
LB7Z - Satin Silver
LD7W - Silverstone grey
LG9R - Silver Arrow
LY3D - Tornado Red
LC5H - atlantic blue
L041 - UniBlack
LC3X - MatchStick Red
LD7X - platnum grey
LG5V - blue galactic
LB9A - Candy White
LA2Y - Tropic Orange
LC6W - Rave green
LY1C - Imola Yellow
LA9B - Cool White
LC9Z - Black Magic Pearl
LB5N - Indigo Blue
LC6M - Bright Green
LP3G - Flash Red
LA1W - Mojave beige
LG5A - vapor Blue
LA6P - cosmic green
LA1U- Futura Yellow
LR9A- Campanella White
LD7X- Platinum Grey Mettalic
LC6X- Oceanic Green pearl
LA5G- Pearl Blue
LC7V- Blue Anthracite pearl
LC3X- Murano Red pearl
LC5M- Moonlight Blue
L041- Black (2001)

 

[KrashDH]

UGLY- diahreah yellow brown

 

[STDOUBT]

Not the best photograph. Color is "off". That trailer blue and white? Or is it blue and barely blue?
Missing from your list is (at least) "Stormbeige Metallic".

 

[02NBTDI]

LA1U- Futura Yellow

 

[ducatipaso]

I like futura if it's well cared for. if I recall it was only offered in 1999.5

 

[PakProtector]

That is VW's equivalent of 'Desert Sand Metallic'.

My 2Dr is LB5N, Indigo Blue Metallic.

Douglas

 

[oilhammer]

Rare factory color, and you can see why. It's pretty hideous.

Looks more like something you'd see on a 1975 Plymouth Fury with an off-white landau top.

 

[PakProtector]

Not as bad as the Mercedes 'Exorcist Green', or 'Baby Poo Brown'...topping either of those two is quite difficult.

Douglas

 

[wonneber]

When I bought my 2021 Atlas I wanted a medium Blue color, none in stock.
When I bought my 2024 Atlas I wanted a medium Blue color, none in stock.
I don't think VW likes me.

I will never buy a Red car.
AARP magazine had an article listing the worst color car because it gets the Police's attention.
I was stopped twice for speeding a few miles per hour over the limit.
PBA card saved me.

 

[ducatipaso]

good thing my red Lancia is incapable of speeding!

 

[noob_tl]

I will never buy a Red car.
AARP magazine had an article listing the worst color car because it gets the Police's attention.

When I bought my truck the name of the color was listed as "Red Hot." Apparently GM renamed that color, because when I ordered a touch-up pen by paint code the name of the color was "Pull Me Over Red."

 

[oilhammer]

The insurance companies like to tag cars that are "turbocharged" as some extra thing, too. I've used a broker for insurance for decades. He knows the games they play (a 90hp red Golf TDI should be no more costly to insure than a 115hp blue Golf gasser) and moves past that crap.

On the color "getting attention" I'd gladly take it.... maybe that way the assclowns on their cell phones would also pay more attention. I'm not afraid of police attention. If they pull me over, they had a reason to, and since I'm not doing anything to cause any "extra" issues, I'm not worried. My license is valid. My insurance is valid. My plates are valid. I don't have any drugs or alcohol in the car. And the rare times I would transport a firearm, they would be in the trunk unloaded and safety checked.

 

[wonneber]

The insurance companies like to tag cars that are "turbocharged" as some extra thing, too. I've used a broker for insurance for decades. He knows the games they play (a 90hp red Golf TDI should be no more costly to insure than a 115hp blue Golf gasser) and moves past that crap.

On the color "getting attention" I'd gladly take it.... maybe that way the assclowns on their cell phones would also pay more attention. I'm not afraid of police attention. If they pull me over, they had a reason to, and since I'm not doing anything to cause any "extra" issues, I'm not worried. My license is valid. My insurance is valid. My plates are valid. I don't have any drugs or alcohol in the car. And the rare times I would transport a firearm, they would be in the trunk unloaded and safety checked.

I agree, the police do have a reason to pull you over.
I just didn't know how far off my speedometer was with the large tires that were on my Wrangler.
I explained it to the officer, he glanced at them and let me go.
My PBA card may have helped also.
After I got correct size rims and tires it not only reported the correct speed and rode nice and smooth.