BMW 3 Series Car Touch Up Paint & Pens

PaintNuts can mix original BMW 3 Series touch up car paint colours using the latest colour match technology as either touch up pens, pots or car spray paint.

We have the full range of BMW 3 Series car paint codes in our catalogues.

All our BMW 3 Series car paints are custom mixed to order. Simply select your product type below, and we will do the rest.

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Choose your perfect application method from our Modern Series Colour Match Collection. Available in precise 20ml touch-up pens for detailed work, 100ml bottles for medium coverage, or 500ml aerosols for larger areas. Each colour-matched paint comes as a single core unit, in curated anchor repair kits with primer and lacquer, or all-you-need packages for premium finishes.

For industrial or commercial quantities beyond 500ml, contact our colour specialists for custom solutions.

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PaintNuts Pen Range

Ideal for Small Chips and Scratches
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PaintNuts Aerosol Range

For large bodywork repairs
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PaintNuts Bottle Range

Perfect for large chips, scuffs ands grazes
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Find Your BMW 3 Series Paint Code

Finding your BMW 3 Series paint code is easy. You can typically locate your paint code in the following areas on your car:

Inside the boot lid
Under the bonnet
Inside the wheel arch
In the door hinge
Inside the fuel cap

Alternatively, you could use our reg lookup tool. Simply enter the registration of your 3 Series into our tool, and we'll use the latest colour-match technology to mix the perfect touch-up paint for your car.

How do I use a BMW 3 Series touch-up paint pen?

This comprehensive pen kit contains our everything required for a flawless paint repair, ensuring a professional finish, from preparation to the final coat.

Designed for the thorough repair of:

Why PaintNuts paints?

PaintNuts automotive touch up products provide excellent results without the bother and cost of sending your car to the body shop.

Much cheaper than booking into your local bodyshop
Improved appearance
Easy D.I.Y. application
Anti-Corrosive protection

The colour matched paint is extremely easy to apply making the touch up pen a perfect DIY solution to fix scratches, chips and scuffs improving the visual appearance of your vehicle.

BMW 3 series car paint over the years

Introduced in 1975, the BMW 3 series has been with us for seven generations. In that time we have seen many modifications to the 3 series, going from a long, rectangular shape to a sleeker more aerodynamic design. Technology has changed vastly too. Unsurprisingly, with times that change, colour palettes do too.

Over the years, BMW has typically offered a series of metallic, pearl, classic and special paint colours. The year the BMW 3 series was introduced, 1975, the car was available in BMW 300 Alpine White as well as 070 Golf Yellow, 021 Malaga Red and 475 Black Sapphire Metallic. There were of course plenty of other colours motorists could choose. One of these proved so popular that BMW continues to offer their modern models in the same shade.

Come 1984, the colours offered by BMW majoritively remained unchanged for the 3 series. There was one introduction though to the colour range - 280 Glacier Blue Metallic. At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that this colour was silver rather than blue. However, on closer inspection there is a slight blue hue to the BMW paint colour, just like the glacial melt waters.

For 14 years, BMW kept the colour range the same for the 3 series. Approaching the danger of becoming set in their ways, BMW decided to give motorists a fresher range of colours for the 3 series that reflected more modern times. Still keeping with old favourites like BMW 300 Alpine White and BMW 085 Chamonix Silver Metallic, there was a breadth of new colours available too. A couple of these colours include, A08 Silver Grey Metallic and 405 Imola Red BMW paint colour.

Fast forward to present day and we see that only two of BMWs original colours have stood the test of time. The new model 3 series is still being offered in either 300 Alpine White and A83 Glacier Silver Metallic. Other BMW paint colours available in 2023 are 668 Jet Black BMW paint colour, C4P Brooklyn Grey Metallic and C3Z Tanzanite Blue Metallic.