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Originally Posted by arpad_m
I posted the actual wheel color chart above and don't understand why someone would try a substitution with a body paint color that is guaranteed not to match. Based on some forum posts, there indeed is batch to batch variance even for a matching wheel color, but if you start with a known wrong color, you won't get better results...
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I know. Because even knowing the custom colors and process it's a bitch of a thing to dry and DIY. To do any better than a paint pen touchup would be what... a grind, fill, polish and blend into basically a candy finish... and there's only one way to do that right.
So I gave OP the DIY paint code. Tyrolblue67's experience is not unique with wheel color batch variation, and that variation is more or less centered around the shade of WA139X from what I've seen but perhaps more recent model years are darker. So yeah because of that variation the WA139X paint pen option color blend isn't a home run guarantee. My wheels are a shade lighter than WA139X. But as you can see in Tyrolblue67's case it worked pretty damn well. Might or might not work for OP but for $20 it's worth a shot for what 1 chance in 3?
And yeah on darker wheels, WA375A after midnight may match better than WA139X.