Just picked up a 2021 Cupra Ateca last weekend. Can anyone point to me where I can find out the paint code? Want to try and touch up a chip.
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Paint codes
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Think you may find that on a panel in the boot around where the spare wheel is or would be from memory:
Not sure whether you have a fancy Cupra colour but Seat and Skoda share the same colours so once you get the code check Skoda. Which ever is your closest dealer. I got the Skoda one for mine. VW and Audi colours are different. Seat and Skoda have different colour names but it's the code. One of those fun things.
Not sure whether you have a fancy Cupra colour but Seat and Skoda share the same colours so once you get the code check Skoda. Which ever is your closest dealer. I got the Skoda one for mine. VW and Audi colours are different. Seat and Skoda have different colour names but it's the code. One of those fun things.
It's definitely on you build code PDF if you ask your dealer for that. That's the Vag cooking ingredients the car was built with.
Mine
LF7Y is mine. Those paint colour charts in the promotional material PDFs also give it and the little model car paint comparisons they have in dealerships. You can hold one of those against the car.
The Erwin website I link to on the standard Ateca gives the details of how to login to Erwin, costs you £7-50 an hour but you can download all workshop manuals, training materiel and the all VIN lookup, the build codes. Erwin is the official VAG documentation site.
www.seatcupra.net
Just the VIN lookup with build codes I have seen on "Russian" sites but they come and go. That's free. Just did a quick check on those Russian sites, nothing is free now from what I can see. Those sites were trying to sell parts using the Erwin data.
The VIN is on the front windscreen which you photograph. You get your credit card out. Remember to put the street address in, in European style in Erwin, Street and number for the postcode cheque when they take payment and bobs your uncle to get all of the official workshop material. With a bit of planning and a clear head you can download all the material in a hour or two.
In the mean time someone might tell you where the plate is with the paint colour on or have a look at the brochure PDFs that correspond to the car / dealer models. Reckon it's always worth getting the Erwin material since that covers everything and answers all those maintenance questions that come up in the future.
Mine
LF7Y is mine. Those paint colour charts in the promotional material PDFs also give it and the little model car paint comparisons they have in dealerships. You can hold one of those against the car.
The Erwin website I link to on the standard Ateca gives the details of how to login to Erwin, costs you £7-50 an hour but you can download all workshop manuals, training materiel and the all VIN lookup, the build codes. Erwin is the official VAG documentation site.
SEAT Repair Manual and Workshop Information
To answer a lot of the technical questions of the Ateca the full workshop manuals are available by an hourly or daily rate for download as PDF files. You can browse but can't download if you don't pay. https://seat.erwin-store.com/erwin/showHome.do Circa 7 Euro's + VAT gives you the ability to...
www.seatcupra.net
Just the VIN lookup with build codes I have seen on "Russian" sites but they come and go. That's free. Just did a quick check on those Russian sites, nothing is free now from what I can see. Those sites were trying to sell parts using the Erwin data.
The VIN is on the front windscreen which you photograph. You get your credit card out. Remember to put the street address in, in European style in Erwin, Street and number for the postcode cheque when they take payment and bobs your uncle to get all of the official workshop material. With a bit of planning and a clear head you can download all the material in a hour or two.
In the mean time someone might tell you where the plate is with the paint colour on or have a look at the brochure PDFs that correspond to the car / dealer models. Reckon it's always worth getting the Erwin material since that covers everything and answers all those maintenance questions that come up in the future.
Hi Adi8v
I too have just bought a Cupra Ateca.
I ordered a touch up pen from the place a bought the car.
It was from a Seat main dealer so its a genuine touch up pen.
Sure they will be able to get the correct paint code from the vehicle registration.
They use Erwin to do a VIN lookup which you can do yourself if you pay the time online or just ask the dealer for a print out of the build code or the paint code. On any new vehicles they know the paint code from the Seat name but those little model cars for the colour have the code on them as well if you turn them over in the dealership.
There was a French Seat site we all use to look at
.
Cupra:
www.teintes.fr
Use to be the place where first time Ateca buyers went to look at the colours
. The names are there. Then you have a Decca around these links:
They give the paint name to the code. Then if you want to up the fun you look at the Skoda name against the code. It's all the same paint.
The original Ateca 2017 model the brochure colour was Samoa Orange. Some people did buy Orange Atecas. Looked fine on a summer's day in a seaside resort but perhaps not elsewhere. You had to be brave enough to carry that one off.
Attached the launch brochure PDF for interest. They may well have changed the colours since then - see the French link above.... was the go to place as I said for people into the colours. We were buying blind then ordering the car before we saw it.
My memory served me right on the Seat side back in 2016 if you save the PDF of the car you built it told you the paint code
.
I see now for the Cupra it doesn't. I did build a Dark Camouflage one. Hmmm the site for Cupra didn't give the code on the PDF but a Google bring up this. A board Seat / Cupra parts sponsor. Use you registration / Vin:
www.seatmotorparts.co.uk
So there you go.
Quite interesting to track the colours across Seat and Skoda
.
So yes, get the name and use the parts link to get the code. Dealers sell the paint or central parts and I said early if your dealer is some way, cross referencing to Skoda you can get it from there if closer. They order parts in which is cheaper than Skoda mail order that adds the post on. I got the Skoda paint for mine plus the celebrated ice scraper that slots in the fuel cap, just a train ride for me at the time rather than a long treck to a Seat dealer, now 5 minutes where I live. Cupra is 60 miles or so. Reckon any Seat dealer would get the paint in for a Cupra if you like the personal touch. The supply chain will come together outside the brands in the dealership.
Seat Motor Parts being a sponsor off the board a discount applies:
Quite a few options to rustle up the touch up paint
- the dealer parts department who just know or look it up on the VIN
- Seat parts online using reg and Vin, link above
- checking out the little model tests colour plates in the dealership assuming Cupra have these little models stuck to metal plates that you take outside to the daylight to study
- website links to colour charts
- you don't have to stick to Seat / Cupra you can be a devil and buy the same paint from Skoda if the codes match
There was a French Seat site we all use to look at
.Cupra:
Cupra Ateca (2018 à 2020) - Couleurs et code peinture
TEINTES répertorie les couleurs de plus de 1100 modèles auto. Comparez et identifiez les couleurs de vos véhicule favoris !
Use to be the place where first time Ateca buyers went to look at the colours
. The names are there. Then you have a Decca around these links:They give the paint name to the code. Then if you want to up the fun you look at the Skoda name against the code. It's all the same paint.
The original Ateca 2017 model the brochure colour was Samoa Orange. Some people did buy Orange Atecas. Looked fine on a summer's day in a seaside resort but perhaps not elsewhere. You had to be brave enough to carry that one off.
Attached the launch brochure PDF for interest. They may well have changed the colours since then - see the French link above.... was the go to place as I said for people into the colours. We were buying blind then ordering the car before we saw it.
My memory served me right on the Seat side back in 2016 if you save the PDF of the car you built it told you the paint code
.
I see now for the Cupra it doesn't. I did build a Dark Camouflage one. Hmmm the site for Cupra didn't give the code on the PDF but a Google bring up this. A board Seat / Cupra parts sponsor. Use you registration / Vin:
Genuine Honda Parts and Car Accessories | Cox Motor Parts
Genuine Honda parts at discounted prices. Buy online today or call us on 01524 68071. We will never be beaten on price for any genuine Honda car parts.
www.seatmotorparts.co.uk
So there you go.
Quite interesting to track the colours across Seat and Skoda
.So yes, get the name and use the parts link to get the code. Dealers sell the paint or central parts and I said early if your dealer is some way, cross referencing to Skoda you can get it from there if closer. They order parts in which is cheaper than Skoda mail order that adds the post on. I got the Skoda paint for mine plus the celebrated ice scraper that slots in the fuel cap, just a train ride for me at the time rather than a long treck to a Seat dealer, now 5 minutes where I live. Cupra is 60 miles or so. Reckon any Seat dealer would get the paint in for a Cupra if you like the personal touch. The supply chain will come together outside the brands in the dealership.
Seat Motor Parts being a sponsor off the board a discount applies:
Quite a few options to rustle up the touch up paint
- the dealer parts department who just know or look it up on the VIN
- Seat parts online using reg and Vin, link above
- checking out the little model tests colour plates in the dealership assuming Cupra have these little models stuck to metal plates that you take outside to the daylight to study
- website links to colour charts
- you don't have to stick to Seat / Cupra you can be a devil and buy the same paint from Skoda if the codes match
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