Saab 2001 Touch Up Paint

2001 Saab Touch Up Paint (11 OEM Colors)

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For small chips & scratches

Customized Color Paint Pen

Repair tiny chips and scratches with precision. Perfect for small nicks from rocks or door dings, the fine tip applicator makes it easy for beginners to achieve a clean, factory-quality finish.

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For Medium-sized Chips & Scratches

Customized Color Paint Bottle

Tackle medium-sized scratches and chips with our Customzied Color Paint Bottle. The built-in applicator brush provides smooth, controlled coverage, while the included basecoat delivers a perfect factory match in your custom paint color.

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For larger areas & panel resprays

Customized Color Spray Can

Cover larger areas with a smooth, professional finish using ourcustomized color Spray Can. Designed for hoods, fenders, and larger scratches, this product provides consistent spray coverage and factory-matched color accuracy.

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For large repairs & total resprays

Customized Color Professional Size Paint

When your repair job calls for more than a touch-up, step up to our professional-size automotive paints. Available in Pint, Quart, or Gallon sizes, these paints are ready-to-spray using an airless spray gun.

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For small chips & scratches

Customized Color Tricoat Paint Pens

Repair tiny chips and scratches with precision. Perfect for small nicks from rocks or door dings, the fine tip applicator makes it easy for beginners to achieve a clean, factory-quality finish. Each order includes a basecoat and a midcoat pen.

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For Medium-sized Chips & Scratches

Customized Color Tricoat Paint Bottles

Tackle medium-sized scratches and chips with our Customzied Color Paint Bottles. The built-in applicator brush provides smooth, controlled coverage, while the basecoat & midcoat deliver a perfect factory match in your custom paint color.

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For larger areas & panel resprays

Customized Color Tricoat Spray Cans

Cover larger areas with a smooth, professional finish using our customized color basecoat & midcoat Spray Cans. Designed for hoods, fenders, and larger scratches, this product provides consistent spray coverage and factory-matched color accuracy.

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For large repairs & total resprays

Customized Color Tricoat Professional Size Paint

When your repair job calls for more than a touch-up, step up to our professional-size automotive paints. Available in Pint, Quart, or Gallon sizes, these paints are ready-to-spray using an airless spray gun. Each order includes a basecoat & a midcoat paint.

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How to Find Your 2001 Saab's Color Code

Saab paint codes are normally on the drivers door jamb. On old Saabs, color codes are about impossible to find; other cited locations include the engine compartment and the trunk area (inside the transmission is a joke). Typical code format: 230, which corresponds to: 230 Scarabe Green Metallic Clearcoat. Same Color Code, Different Name: the same paint across models may be called Green Clearcoat or Mystic Green Clearcoat.

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2001 Saab Background Info

The 2001 Saab Vibe

Welcome to 2001: the year we all thought the Y2K bug was going to end the world, but instead, we just got some of the sleekest Swedish steel to ever hit the asphalt. Whether you were rocking a 9-3 hatchback or the "grown-up" 9-5 sedan, Saab was leaning hard into that minimalist, executive look. We've focused our database on the survivors-the colors that actually defined the era. You had the staples like Black and Laser Red (for those who wanted to look fast even when the ignition was off), and the undisputed kings of the turn-of-the-century: Silver Metallic and Steel Gray Metallic. It was a time of grayscale dominance, but man, did those Saabs wear it with a certain jet-inspired dignity.

Paint Health Check

Now, let's talk reality. You're firmly in what I call "The Peeling Era." By 2001, the factory was using a two-stage base coat/clear coat system that looked like a million bucks on the showroom floor, but it has a nasty habit of "delaminating" twenty years later. If you're looking at your 9-5 and it looks like it's got a bad sunburn on the roof or the tops of the fenders, that's your clear coat giving up the ghost. Once that protective top layer starts to lift and turn into those white, flaky splotches, the pigment underneath is defenseless. Laser Red owners, you know the struggle-without that clear coat, your vibrant red turns into a chalky pink faster than you can say "turbo lag."

Restoration Tip

The secret to keeping these 2001 models from looking like a science project is speed. You've got to seal every rock chip immediately. On these cars, a tiny chip isn't just a cosmetic blemish; it's an invitation for air and moisture to get under the clear coat and start a "peel-off" that won't stop until it hits the bumper. Use a high-quality touch-up pen to bridge that gap between the base and the clear as soon as you see a strike. If you've already got a small area where the clear is starting to lift at the edges, don't just wax over it-you need to carefully scuff the edge and seal it with a fresh layer of clear to stop the "sneeze" from spreading across the whole panel.

Saab Models Released in 2001

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