2007 Audi Touch Up Paint (34 OEM Colors)

The 2007 Audi Vibe

2007 was the year Audi decided to own every lane on the road. You had the RS4 screaming on the track, the S8 bringing V10 muscle to the boardroom, and the brand-new Q7 finally giving the suburbanites a German tank to mall-crawl in. With 34 colors in our database for this year, Audi was obsessed with "Professionalism." That meant a sea of sophisticated grays and silvers like Dolphin Gray Metallic, Quartz Gray, and Avus Silver. But every now and then, a customer had some soul and checked the box for Sprint Blue Pearl or Imola Yellow. It was a high-water mark for design, even if the factory was starting to get a little stingy with the spray gun.

Paint Health Check

Welcome to the Thin Paint Era. By 2007, the German robots had precision down to a science, and "Robot Efficiency" is just a polite way of saying they used as little paint as possible. While the finish looks like glass, it's notoriously lean. If you're looking at your hood and seeing a galaxy of tiny white "stars," you're not alone-that's the brittle factory clear coat giving up the ghost every time a pebble looks at it funny. When these cars chip, they chip deep, often straight through the color to that bright white primer. It's a hard, ceramic-style clear coat that's tough to buff but easy to crack.

Restoration Tip

Since the factory paint is so thin, the biggest mistake you can make is "blobbing." If you drop a giant bead of touch-up paint into a chip on an A4 or A6, it's going to sit higher than the surrounding surface and look like a pimple. The secret is to build layers slowly. Use a fine-tip applicator to dab a tiny amount of color into the center of the chip, let it dry and "shrink" down, then repeat until the hole is filled to just below the level of the clear coat. Don't rush the process; those German robots were precise, so you have to be too if you want that repair to disappear.