Hi,

I'm going to use Chipex to fix a new ding, however I've hit a paint colour snag.

My documentation and the Fiat website say my car is 'Crossover Black - 891/B'

However, the lable in my car states it is in fact 'Nero Carbonio - 876'.

Do I go with the car or the paperwork? I'm inclined to go with the car to be honest.

This leads to my next question: Chipex has the colour but lists it as 876/B, and it doesn't have a B on my label. Is it the same colour?

No idea - but Grimwau I recall had a 500 that had a Fiat label that said it was a Panda.....

RobinPJ said:

No idea - but Grimwau I recall had a 500 that had a Fiat label that said it was a Panda.....

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lol, that doesn't exactly fill me with confidence!

Afaik they're both the same colour

Mercky said:

Afaik they're both the same colour

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I think so too, I know that Fiat and Abarth both list the same common colours with different names, (Bossa Nova White = Gara White, Legends Blue = Volare Blue etc.) not sure about the codes though, surely they should be the same.

RobinPJ said:

No idea - but Grimwau I recall had a 500 that had a Fiat label that said it was a Panda.....

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Some people remember the funniest things.



This was on the drivers door shut on my Fiat 500 TA Sport.

DBunX said:

Hi,

I'm going to use Chipex to fix a new ding, however I've hit a paint colour snag.

My documentation and the Fiat website say my car is 'Crossover Black - 891/B'

However, the lable in my car states it is in fact 'Nero Carbonio - 876'.

Do I go with the car or the paperwork? I'm inclined to go with the car to be honest.

This leads to my next question: Chipex has the colour but lists it as 876/B, and it doesn't have a B on my label. Is it the same colour?

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My car is exactly the same. The local marketing dept. probably decided 'Carbon Black' doesn't sound as 'sexy' as 'Crossover Black'.

My opinion? As the song says... Los Bravos - Black Is Black - YouTube

My wife's car is described as 'Ambient White Pastel ' but the label calls it 'Blanco SM.B/B VR 268A'.

I've gone with the label, even if it is different it can't by that much and the chip it is for is tiny.

Nothing is ever easy though is it!

I think Fiat use different names for the same colour. This is not new.

When I had a blue classic Panda, the touch-up I bought was a good match, but was of a different name, but current at that time. This suggested that they used the same colour, but called it something different every few years. Much cheaper than formulating new colours like all the others do.

Had a new Seicento in 2000 in dark blue metallic. The touch-up matched well, but again showed a different name to that on the car.

So my guess is that either colour code will give you the same result.

DBunX said:

My documentation and the Fiat website say my car is 'Crossover Black - 891/B'

However, the lable in my car states it is in fact 'Nero Carbonio - 876'.

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I own a 500C in Crossover Black as well and my boot lid label also says Nero Carbonio VR 876 (which I suspect is the Italian factory code for this colour). In some of FIAT's official Australian brochures, the colour seems to be referred to as "Metallic Vesuvio Black".

Confusing.

Thanks everyone

I'm confident now it is just a different name for the same colour. Not entirely helpful from Fiat but I guess it is to be expected when the cars are designed in one country, built in another and then sold in another again!

DBunX, how did your touch up paint purchase go, did everything work out OK?

I recently got a really bad batch of bird poop/bat poop which actually lifted some of my car paint off when I washed it off
So I'm now looking for some touch up paint.

It went fine actually, I used ChipEx for a few of the scratches and Fiat's own touch up Pen thing for the bigger holes that needed a bit of clear top-coat going back on.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but am I right in thinking there is not a solid black paint? Those two paint code blacks are actually the same and are both the very slight metallic?

Sorry to bump this again.

I've obtained a 2010 Pop with the code 876. It's near impossible to find spare bodywork parts. Tons of 891.

Did we determine that the colour is pretty much identical?