1998 Four-Winns Touch Up Paint (3 OEM Colors)

The 1998 Four-Winns Vibe

Welcome to 1998-the year we all thought the Y2K bug was coming for our dashboards and the Spice Girls were on every radio. On the water, Four-Winns was the king of the "refined" look, moving away from the loud neon splashes of the early 90s toward something a bit more sophisticated. We've focused our database on the true survivors of this era, specifically the colors that defined the docks: Dark Green, Gloss Trim Black, and that quintessentially late-90s Light Rose Metallic. If your Horizon or Vista didn't have that deep forest hue or a champagne-adjacent rose accent, were you even really there?

Paint Health Check

Here's the "Salty" truth: 1998 sits right in the heart of The Peeling Era. By this time, the industry had fully committed to basecoat-and-clearcoat systems. It looked great in the showroom, but the chemistry of the late 90s had a mid-life crisis when exposed to constant UV rays and salt spray. You aren't dealing with old-school chalky oxidation that you can just buff out; you're likely seeing "delamination." That's a fancy word for when your clear coat decides it's done with its job and starts flaking off like a bad sunburn, leaving the pigment underneath defenseless.

Restoration Tip

If you see a chip in that Dark Green hull or a tiny lift in the Light Rose Metallic accents, do not-I repeat, do not-ignore it. Once the clear coat's seal is broken, moisture gets underneath and starts the "zipper effect," where the clear coat unzips itself from the base in giant sheets. Seal chips immediately before the clear lifts. Clean the area, scuff the edges of the chip very lightly to ensure the new layer "bites," and get a fresh coat of solvent-based protection over it before the sun turns your paint into sun-burned lizard skin.