2007 RV-Other Touch Up Paint (18 OEM Colors)

The 2007 RV-Other Vibe

Welcome to 2007: the year the first iPhone changed the world and Thor, National, and Tiffin were busy dominating the asphalt. If you're looking at our database of 18 colors for this era, you'll notice a very specific aesthetic-call it "High-End Corporate Retreat." We're talking a sea of sophisticated neutrals like Summer Dust, Silky Tan, and the ever-popular Silver Blue (PPG 979854). It was an era where RVs stopped looking like campers and started looking like luxury condos on wheels, dressed in metallic hues designed to camouflage a thousand miles of highway grime.

Paint Health Check

By 2007, we were deep into the Thin Paint Era. This was the pinnacle of "Robot Efficiency." Factory painters had figured out exactly how to program a robotic arm to spray the absolute minimum amount of clear coat required to make Ebony Satin shine on the showroom floor. The result? These rigs look spectacular from ten feet away, but the clear coat is often thinner than the fine print on a subprime mortgage. You're likely seeing "checking"-those tiny spiderweb cracks in the dark pigments-or clear coat delamination along the roof radius where the sun has been cooking the finish for nearly two decades.

Restoration Tip

When you're touching up a 2007 survivor, remember that you're working with a precision-engineered, micro-thin finish. My advice? Build your layers slowly. These modern metallics and satins don't like to be "blobbed." If you try to fill a rock chip in one heavy pass, the metallic flakes will sink to the bottom and your Slate Gray will look like a dark bruise. Apply several whisper-thin coats, letting them tack up in between. It takes a little more patience, but it's the only way to match the "just-off-the-line" efficiency those factory robots achieved back in the day.