VolvoBotticelli PearlTouch Up Paint — Paint Code 353
Botticelli Pearl is Volvo paint code 353. Volvo used 353 on the V40, S40 from 2002 to 2004. 353 is a metallic, high gloss finish. Botticelli Pearl also appears as code CNR10044. Botticelli Pearl is sold as Kirschrot Mica in other markets.
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Is 353 the same as CNR10044?
Manufacturer code353Usually the one on your car’s label
Standard numberCNR10044
A single factory colour is often recorded under more than one code: the manufacturer’s own code, an industry standard number, and a supplier code. They all mix to the same paint. The code printed on your vehicle’s paint label is the one to match.
Sold under other names
DKirschrot Mica
This is what the paint label looks like on a Volvo. The code on it is the one to match.
Which Volvo models came in Botticelli Pearl (353)?
The kit is mixed to the 353 formula — the same code printed on your vehicle’s paint label — not colour-matched by eye. On panels that still carry their factory paint, that reproduces the original tone.
Where it will not match
Panels bleached by years of sun sit lighter than the factory formula. The kit reproduces the original colour, not the faded one.
A panel that has already been resprayed is no longer the factory colour, so the code will not describe it.
Metallic and pearl finishes are harder to blend across a large area than solid colours — they are at their best on chips and thin scratches.
Damage larger than a few centimetres, or down to bare metal over a wide area, is body-shop work.