2007 / 2008 VE Colours

[darkowen]

Hey all,

Im looking at buying a SV6 this week but i keep seeing ads on carsales with the colour as nickel and sometimes silver. Are these two colours the same with different names or are they different?

Cheers,

Matt

[aaronevolution]

You will find that car dealers don't know what colours their cars are. I took my Turismo Mica Blue VZ to Holden once, and they kept calling it Impulse Blue. Wankers.

[darkowen]

ok so are the colours different and if so how do i tell

is there a part of the VIN code that would show it

[SV6.07]

mine is classed as nickel going by holden codes. on my vin number. they told me silver is another code.

[Wongy295]

Mine is Nickel and the compliance plate has 348N on it.
Hope this helps.

[ducker85]

lets use a VP SS as an example here

OK the offical Holden colour will be called something like archetype grey, the car dealer may advertise the car as Grey and when you go to motor reg the car will be registered as Black.

Holden only do one shade of silver normally so if you want a 08 made Nickle SV6 a 08 made Silver is the same colour. There is also a colour code, so if your deadset of the colour get the code from Holden and check that the car your buying has the same paint code. Code should be somewhere in the engine bay along with the trim code, paint, trans, enigine etc on a Alloy ID plate

[mmrdb]

You will find that nickel is a name holden used for silver in the early VE's ie. MY07/08. Nickel was replaced by Nitrate (still silver, but slightly different shade) when the VE MY09 was released in March/April 2008 The current VE series 2 still has Nitrate as a colour option. Hope this info helps! Cheers.