Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

So we went on a hiking trip the other weekend to Twin Lakes and had to travel up a logging road. After our hike I noticed that we had a long scratch in the passenger side door. While my boyfriend is sure that someone took a key to the door, I can't imagine who would do such a thing and I'm sure we must've brushed up against a branch. Whatever the cause we now have this long scratch on the "Ca" down to the body.

Our Delica is a white one. And I've been doing a lot of looking at colour matching so that we can fill in the scratch (or at least cover it a bit better) and to date I haven't been very succesful. We've looked under the driver's seat for the colour reference (W09X94) and took that information to Lordco. Well we weren't able to match that up with anything.

Does anyone have any advice on paint match for white Delica's? And/or suggestions on how to handle scratches? Thanks a million guys.

Have you found any other whites from Mitsu? I'm sure they would have used the same white on other cars/trucks... maybe?

Lordco and JB group have digital sampling cameras that will scan you van's colour and allow the clerk to mix an exact match to your colour. I've done this for the dark grey and silver of my van, and it worked great!

delica 304 wrote:Lordco and JB group have digital sampling cameras that will scan you van's colour and allow the clerk to mix an exact match to your colour. I've done this for the dark grey and silver of my van, and it worked great!

this is likely a way better option as using paint the same colour as your van was 15 or more years ago will probably not match as well do to 15 years of fading.

To make it easier for them, it might be an idea to take in the fuel flap from your bus - that way they can just match it there and then.

Is the scratch to the metal? It's not something you might be able to buff out?

The thing I have noticed about the "white" Delicas is they suffer from a cultural bias.
What we consider to be "white" in North America actually includes a hefty dose of blue, whereas the "white" used in Japan is biased more toward yellow. The Delica has the yellower "white".
It is possible Mitsubishi sold vehicles of this colour over here, however I would think they'd be more likely to use a different white on vehicles destined for this market.

When I repainted my front bumper I used a generic white from Canadian Tire, because I did the whole bumper you can't really tell, however where I used that same white on the roof after patching a rust spot it is very obvious.

I have to agree that your best bet is to get a paint place to colour match existing rather than fooling around with paint codes and such, even if they match the code properly, 15 years of sun and rain may have changed your actual colour a bit.