2014 Newmar Touch Up Paint (21 OEM Colors)

The 2014 Newmar Vibe

Welcome to 2014-the year the Newmar Motorhome officially decided that "Beige" wasn't just a color; it was a lifestyle. With a staggering 21 colors in our database, it's clear that the "Masterpiece Finish" was in full swing. We're talking about a time when your coach was draped in sophisticated, multi-tonal metallics like Kalahari Beige, Black Gold Metallic, and Mojave Beige. It was the era of luxury land-yachts that looked like they were carved out of a single piece of desert sand and polished to a mirror shine. If you weren't rolling down the interstate in something that shimmered like Galaxy Gold, were you even really "glamping"?

Paint Health Check

This is the heart of the Thin Paint Era. By 2014, the robots in Nappanee were spraying with surgical precision, which looks great on the showroom floor but leaves you with a finish that's leaner than a marathon runner. The "Masterpiece" is a high-solids clear coat system, but it's vulnerable to its own efficiency. The biggest threat to these beauties is micro-checking-those tiny, spider-web cracks that haunt the dark colors like Midnight Pine Pearl or Labrador Black. Because the paint is thin and the fiberglass underneath expands in the sun, that dark pigment turns your sidewall into a heat-soaking radiator. If you see the clear coat starting to lift on the roof radius (that curved edge where the sun hits hardest), you're on the clock.

Restoration Tip

When you're touching up a 2014 Newmar, remember: layers are your friend; blobs are your enemy. Because these modern finishes are applied so thinly by the factory, a big, thick drop of touch-up paint will sit on the surface like a sore thumb. For those high-travel metallics like Silver (PPG 5763) or Stratus Metallic, you need to build the color in two or three whisper-thin passes. If you "blob" a metallic, the tiny flakes will dive to the bottom of the wet paint and stand on their heads, making your repair look five shades darker than the rest of the coach. Dab it on, let it tack up, and keep it level.