Mazda paint code 18G
Highlight Silver Metallic
ハイライトシルバーメタリック
- Paint code
- 18G
- Name
- Highlight Silver Metallic
- Colour
- metallic silver
- Finish
- Metallic: fine aluminium flake, so repaired panels can look lighter or darker at an angle
- V5C should say
- SILVER or GREY
- Status
- Not yet confirmed: check the plate on the car
Models that came in Highlight Silver Metallic
Listed for these models in Japanese catalogue colour listings. Not every colour was offered for every year or trim.
Other Mazda models outside our model library used 18G too.
Has a 18G car been resprayed?
- Find the model plate and read the code. On the caution plate, in the engine bay on older models and on the driver’s side centre pillar on later ones, next to COLOR. Mazda codes are two or three characters. If it says 18G, the car left the factory in Highlight Silver Metallic.
- Check the V5C. For Highlight Silver Metallic it should say SILVER or GREY. Add the paint code to our free check and we’ll compare it with the DVLA record for you.
- Check the auction sheet. It should describe the car as silver and usually prints the code. A sheet that says one colour with a code for another means the car was painted before it was sold in Japan. Our auction sheet translator flags that.
- Look for the old colour where a respray rarely reaches: the engine bay, door shuts, inside the boot lid and fuel flap, and under rubber seals. Highlight Silver Metallic has a metallic finish, so look along each panel at an angle for a change in shade.
Other Mazda silver paints
Questions
What colour is Mazda paint code 18G?
18G is Highlight Silver Metallic (ハイライトシルバーメタリック), a metallic silver paint.
What colour should the V5C say for a car in 18G?
The DVLA records a basic colour, not the paint name, so a car still in its factory Highlight Silver Metallic should be registered as SILVER or GREY. Anything else suggests it has been painted a new colour, and the keeper should have told the DVLA.
Which models came in Highlight Silver Metallic?
Japanese catalogue colour listings include it for the Mazda RX-7 FD (FD3S) and Mazda Bongo Friendee SG (SGLR). Other Mazda models outside our model library used it too.
From our own colour table. The dot shows the colour family, not the paint itself. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected]. All Mazda colour codes