Ming blue or another colour?

Crazypete00 · Mar 17, 2015

Hi, trying to find out the colour of my S3. I've always thought i had a ming blue S3 until recently when we tried to match the colour to fix some rust spots. Ming Blue is alot darker.

I thought the S3 only came in 2 blue colours, Ming and Noggy. I have looked for the sticker in the boot but looks like that disappeared along time ago. Next option is to give audi a call with my vin.

S3_DAVE · Mar 17, 2015

Hi @Crazypete00 I believe there are 3 variations of meng blue. I had this same issue when buying a bumper as I thought I was buying same colour went down to collect it and it was more of a bluey blue (if that makes sense, like yours) whereas mine is darker.

I think the paint codes are different though (should be in the log book), I can’t remember off the top of my head what mine is but I'll check when I get home.

Crazypete00 · Mar 17, 2015

its never easy with these cars. grrrrr. Someone else said it might be azure blue.

crispynz1 · Mar 17, 2015

Damn nice colour, whatever it is!

Grale1 · Mar 17, 2015

There is also Santorin blue pearl I beleave

Crazypete00 · Mar 17, 2015

thanks Grale, that looks like a good match. i've called audi with my vin just waiting for them to get back to me.

Erikn89nl · Mar 17, 2015

On the german Audi website, you can make a MyAudi account, fill in your vehicle ID number, and it will list all the info they have on the car, including paint colour, factory options, etc.

Adam P · Mar 17, 2015

I had no idea there were different revisions of ming blue! Looking at mine compared to yours they are definitely different shades of ming!

s3mad_dude · Mar 17, 2015

That's santorin blue by the looks of it. It's certainly not Ming.

Crazypete00 · Mar 17, 2015

ye defo not ming. called my local audi place, and there is no paint code listed for my vehicle after searching using the VIN. They called another Audi garage and they said the same, they are now contacting an office in Germany to get the details.

westcoast a3 · Mar 17, 2015

Isn't there kingfisher blue as well ??

westcoast a3 · Mar 17, 2015

Like this one

Crazypete00 · Mar 17, 2015

@Erikn89nl thanks for the tip. i signed up and registered my VIN - it found that it was an S3 but then has no information listed for my car.

superkarl · Mar 17, 2015

Ming
Nagaro
Kingfisher
Denim
And santorini which is yours

Crazypete00 · Mar 17, 2015

thanks for all the help just heard back from Audi, the colour is LZ5K - Sanorini blue.

So congrats to the winners - superkarl, s3mad_dude and grale1

rallye_turbo · Mar 17, 2015

westcoast a3 said:
Like this one

Same as mine - Sprint Blue although sold to me as a Noggy. Upon reflection, I think it is nicer. Somewhere between Kingfisher and a Noggy! Also didn't have a colour code on VIN!

westcoast a3 · Mar 17, 2015

My bad that was just a Google photo haven't actually seen a kingfisher blue one but also never seen that colour either :/

superkarl · Mar 17, 2015

rallye_turbo said:
Same as mine - Sprint Blue although sold to me as a Noggy. Upon reflection, I think it is nicer. Somewhere between Kingfisher and a Noggy! Also didn't have a colour code on VIN!

That's not sprint blue. Sprint blue wasn't available back then. It's kingfisher

jcs356 · Mar 17, 2015

At launch there was also Cornflower & Azure pearlescent.

rallye_turbo · Mar 17, 2015

superkarl said:
That's not sprint blue. Sprint blue wasn't available back then. It's kingfisher

Nope. Had a Kingfisher blue Audi and this is different, but looking at the chart above - it looks like Cornflower Blue! Never knew that

45bvtc · Oct 23, 2015

My 2011 Audi RS3 is in LY5M Cornflower blue:

45bvtc · Oct 23, 2015

And here's Sprint blue, a shiny pearlescent, and Cornflower blue, a flat non-metallic, together:

Cornflower BLUEY is de-badged and now has black-exhaust tail pipes for enhanced stealth.

Crazypete00 · Oct 23, 2015

from what i gather - azure and santorini blue may be the same colour although the paint codes are LZ5k and LZ5J

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