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My P85 was an Oct/2014 build and it is the lighter Metallic Grey.
I bought my car used, but only 9mos old. So I didn't order it. The build sheet says "grey". I asked at the SC, what is the official color of my car? (VIN is 61,8XX), and they said it is officially "Grey". Not midnight grey, or sexy silver metallic, or Dolphin Grey or even Grey Metallic. It's...just...grey. July 2014 was the change. VINs in the 40,000 range.
I will check.Jeffs, that looks like my car's color. I have a white sticker on the base below the driver's seat that lists the paint as well as build date. My paint code is PMNG and the build date is 10/14. VIN is P26060, which obviously is way out of sequence for a P85 with AP (told by Tesla there were only 375 built).
Jeff great photos.... you have Midnight Silver Metallic, that is NOT the older grey... It looks great BTW!
And NC thanks for that tip on the sticker... can you snap a picture of that sticker location please?
I am sure others here would like to know where to look.... thanks NC!
Well...to add to the confusion, my car is VIN 618xx, built Dec 2014, has AP, delivered new Jan 31, 2015...and has the PMTG paint code which is theoretically Dolphin Grey which was discontinued July of 2014 before AP was ever a thing. Hmmm.
I was going to say your car looked way lighter than my March 2015 build Grey Metallic. My code is PMNG.
As a color blind guy, I am the last to question color... however being so handicapped I really do focus in on contrast and the New Grey has really
quite a variance of looks or appearances based upon the reflective aspect of the photo and the overall lighting. As the lighting becomes long in the
latter part of the day, the New Grey becomes quite darker in hue.
This changing color phenomenon is one of the many things I like about my car. Kind of like getting OTA updates daily :smile:
As you say, there is no exact VIN range that marks the cutoff. It comes down to when the car was ordered and its place in the build queue, not when it was actually built. Timeframe for the color change was late July 2014.Cannot tell you the exact vin but this change from the older Dolphin Grey to the new Grey which was darker and eventually became named Midnight Silver Metallic was done on or about the late June to July time frame... of 2014 so somewhere in the mid to upper 043000 range I suspect.
Here's a picture that shows Dolphin Grey (pre-July 2014) on the car in the background, with Steel Grey (post-July 2014) on the car in the foreground. This was taken in July 2014 at the Sunnyvale SC:Well you know there are so called "batches" of paint and it sounds like your car was one of the first with the new grey. Since then do you think the paint formula or vendor has changed? Is the grey different now vs then? I suppose you would have to bring your car next to a newer car to see first hand...