Mitsubishi paint code S18
Platinum Beige Metallic
プラチナベージュメタリック
- Paint code
- S18
- Name
- Platinum Beige Metallic
- Colour
- metallic beige
- Finish
- Metallic: fine aluminium flake, so repaired panels can look lighter or darker at an angle
- V5C should say
- BEIGE, CREAM, GOLD or BROWN
- Status
- Not yet confirmed: check the plate on the car
Models that came in Platinum Beige Metallic
Listed for these models in Japanese catalogue colour listings. Not every colour was offered for every year or trim.
Other Mitsubishi models outside our model library used S18 too.
Has a S18 car been resprayed?
- Find the model plate and read the code. On the caution plate in the engine bay, next to EXT (the exterior paint). Codes are a letter and two digits, such as W37. If it says S18, the car left the factory in Platinum Beige Metallic.
- Check the V5C. For Platinum Beige Metallic it should say BEIGE, CREAM, GOLD or BROWN. 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 beige 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. Platinum Beige Metallic has a metallic finish, so look along each panel at an angle for a change in shade.
Other Mitsubishi beige paints
Questions
What colour is Mitsubishi paint code S18?
S18 is Platinum Beige Metallic (プラチナベージュメタリック), a metallic beige paint.
What colour should the V5C say for a car in S18?
The DVLA records a basic colour, not the paint name, so a car still in its factory Platinum Beige Metallic should be registered as BEIGE, CREAM, GOLD or BROWN. Anything else suggests it has been painted a new colour, and the keeper should have told the DVLA.
Which models came in Platinum Beige Metallic?
Japanese catalogue colour listings include it for the Mitsubishi Delica D:5 (CV5W). Other Mitsubishi 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 Mitsubishi colour codes