1991 Honda Touch Up Paint (30 OEM Colors)

The 1991 Honda Vibe

It's 1991. You're rocking a flannel shirt, listening to a cassette in your Accord or Prelude, and wondering if those pop-up headlights will ever go out of style. This was the year Honda really leaned into sophisticated, deep finishes. We've focused our database on the ultimate survivor of the era: Granada Black Metallic. It was the "black tie" look for the Civic and the Mini Van alike-a color that looks like a deep midnight sky until the sun hits those metallic flakes and brings the whole thing to life.

Paint Health Check

Welcome to the heart of The Peeling Era. By '91, Honda was fully committed to the basecoat-clearcoat system, but the chemistry hadn't quite caught up to the intensity of the sun. If your car wasn't a "garage queen," you're likely dealing with delamination. It starts as a faint, ashy cloudiness on the horizontal surfaces-the hood, the roof, and the trunk-and eventually turns into giant, white flakes that peel off like a bad sunburn. Once that clear coat lifts, the color underneath is a sitting duck for oxidation.

Restoration Tip

In this era, your clear coat is a shield that's lost its temper. My advice? Seal chips immediately before the clear lifts. Delamination often starts at a tiny impact point where water and air can get under the clear layer. If you catch a rock chip, don't wait until the weekend; dab it with a matched touch-up pen to lock that edge down. If the clear is already starting to flake at the edges, gently feather it back with a fine abrasive before you apply your fix, or the new paint will just ride the old "peel" right off the car.