Arctic Silver?

[Boss325]

Is arctic silver a rare color? Cause i have yet to see another E36 that is arctic silver. Maybe im just not lookin hard enough.

[ChipB]

Arctic silver isn't all that rare - see for example my car at:

EABJR - BMW and Audi Experiences - 328iC, 528e, and S5

-ChipB

[Boss325]

Why does my arctic silver look so much darker? cause my color looks nothing like yours.

[ChipB]

I'll ask the obvious question - are you sure your car is arctic silver? My car is a '97, so I suppose it's possible that BMW changed the tint a bit over the years. However, looking at my 1997 brochure I see that there was a darker metallic color called Samoa Blue - which really wasn't blue at all, but more of a grayish-silver color. Do you have the original invoice stating arctic silver?

[Boss325]

Under the hood, it sais that is is arktisgrau-metallic. And it gives the number which when i looked it up it told me it was arctic silver. When you think about it, you'd think "grau" would mean gray. And i guess it does cause I just looked at the original bill of sale and the car is actually arctic gray. I must have gotten the two mixed up in some point in time. Is Arctic Gray a rare color? ha

[ChipB]

On my car the plaque on the shock tower says "arctissilber - metallic," and gives paint code number 309/7. Not sure how rare arctic gray is - I do know it was not offered in '97. Available choices that year were as follows (per my sales brochure):

Standard Colors:
300 Alpine White
314 Bright Red
668 Jet Black

Metallic Colors:
309 Arctic Silver
295 Samoa Blue
288 Morea Green
275 Boston Green
297 Montreal Blue
252 Calypso Red