Sunshine Coast QLD / since 1989
Colour-matched refinish paint and fleet coatings, from the Warana counter to your panel booth.
Local since 1989
Same Kawana site for over 35 years
Overview
Queensland Paint Supplies has mixed and matched automotive refinish paint from its Warana counter since 1989, supplying panel shops, mobile sprayers, fleet operators and DIY owners across Wurtulla. There's no branch in Wurtulla itself, but most jobs are solved from Concept NO MIX and NO MIX LV, Cromax and BESA stock on the shelf or in the van, with colour matched on-site by spectrophotometer rather than guessed from a faded panel. For a suburb where most households run two or more vehicles, that means basecoats, clears and stone-chip aerosols are a short trip or a scheduled delivery away, not a drive to the city.
Wurtulla sits directly on the Sunshine Coast's patrolled stretch of ocean beach, with council-marked access points running from Wurtulla Beach into Currimundi. It's also a suburb built overwhelmingly around the family car: 83.9% of occupied dwellings are separate houses, and almost two in three households run two or more vehicles. Put those two facts together and automotive paint stops being a generic commodity: clearcoat and basecoat on a Wurtulla vehicle are doing more work, for more cars per household, than in most inland suburbs.
A beach that's open to direct ocean swell and patrolled by lifeguards, as Wurtulla's is, puts salt-laden air and strong UV directly onto whatever's parked nearby, not as a vague coastal generality, but as a specific exposure load on clearcoat and basecoat. Add in a suburb where 83.9% of homes are separate houses with their own driveway or carport rather than covered basement parking, and where 41.6% of households run two vehicles and a further 21.0% run three or more, and the practical question for a panel shop, mobile sprayer or fleet manager in Wurtulla isn't whether salt and sun are a factor; it's which refinish system actually holds adhesion and colour under that load, across a suburb where most vehicles sit exposed on a driveway or carport rather than garaged.
That's the gap Queensland Paint Supplies' refinish range is built to close. The counter stocks Concept Paints, including the NO MIX tinting system and its low-VOC NO MIX LV variant for jobs with a VOC requirement, alongside Cromax (Axalta) and Bernardo Ecenarro (BESA), a Spanish manufacturer that's built industrial, commercial-vehicle and automotive coatings since 1963. None of that helps if the colour's wrong, so matching is done on-site with a spectrophotometer and computer, reading the panel itself rather than relying only on a factory code that may no longer reflect how years of coastal sun have aged the paint. For the smaller repairs (the stone chips and scuffs a beachside car collects constantly) the same colour bases get mixed and filled into a custom aerosol in-store, rather than sending a customer away with a swatch and a guess.
None of this runs from a Wurtulla branch (the only counter is at Warana, open Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4pm), but the business has worked from that same Warana/Kawana-area site for more than 35 years. Public reviews put the business's rating at 4.9 out of 5 from 69 Google reviews, which matters more in a suburb with no counter of its own: getting the right product to Wurtulla, correctly matched, on a workable timeframe, is the actual service being bought.
Years of direct coastal UV and salt air fade and dull Wurtulla vehicles' original colour unevenly. A visible mismatch on a resale, lease-return or fleet vehicle devalues the repair and the vehicle. On-site spectrophotometer matching reads the panel as it looks now, not the factory code it left with.
Tradies, mobile operators and small fleets working around Wurtulla need paint specified for vans, utes and commercial-vehicle panels, not just passenger-car colour systems. Standard retail colour systems aren't always specified for commercial-vehicle panels. BESA is stocked specifically for industrial, commercial-vehicle and automotive panels, a market it's supplied since 1963.
Some worksites and contracts specify low-emission coatings rather than standard tinting systems. Using the wrong system can put a job out of spec before it's even sprayed. Concept's NO MIX LV is stocked as the low-VOC version of its NO MIX tinting range, for jobs that carry that requirement.
Beachside driving around Wurtulla brings sand and loose grit onto road surfaces, chipping paint on contact. Left exposed, bare metal under a chip corrodes faster in salt-laden air. Custom aerosols are mixed and filled in-store from the same colour bases used for full mixes, suited to stone chips and small repairs.
Queensland Paint Supplies has no branch in Wurtulla; the only physical counter is at Warana. Customers may assume they'll need to travel into a city centre or wait longer than is actually necessary. The Warana counter (Mon-Fri 7:30am-4pm) is a short drive away, and a stocked van also runs a regular delivery route into the area.
A refinish job isn't finished at basecoat and clear; polishing and finishing is part of the same job. Sourcing paint and finishing products from separate suppliers adds time and cost to a job. Industrial paints and detailing products such as polishes, clay and finishing cloths are stocked alongside the automotive refinish range.
The low-VOC NO MIX LV variant is stocked for Wurtulla jobs that carry a VOC requirement, without swapping away from the same tinting base.
Stocked at the Warana counter and available to Wurtulla customers by counter visit or van delivery.
Purpose-built for commercial-vehicle and fleet panels, relevant to the tradies, mobile operators and small fleets that call on Wurtulla's panel shops and sprayers.
Matches a faded or repainted Wurtulla vehicle as it looks now, not to a factory code dulled by years of coastal sun.
Mixed and filled in-store from the same colour bases, suited to the chips and small repairs common on beachside driving routes.
Stocked, matched, and backed by experience
Queensland Paint Supplies has worked from the same Warana/Kawana-area site since opening on Commerce Avenue in October 1989, more than 35 years supplying automotive refinish paint to the wider Sunshine Coast, including Wurtulla. The counter stocks three recognised refinish systems: Concept Paints (NO MIX and NO MIX LV), Cromax (Axalta), and BESA, a Spanish manufacturer producing industrial and commercial-vehicle coatings since 1963. Colour matching is done in-house with a spectrophotometer and computer rather than outsourced, and custom touch-up aerosols are mixed and filled on the premises. Public reviews of the business put its rating at 4.9 out of 5 from 69 Google reviews. There's no branch in Wurtulla itself; the Warana counter is the only physical location, open Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4pm.
Local since 1989
Same Kawana site for over 35 years
Concept Paints distributor
Including the NO MIX system
Cromax and BESA refinish
Cromax and Bernardo Ecenarro
Custom colour matching
Spectrophotometer on site and in the van
Getting here
Our workshop is at 5 Main Drive, Warana, in the Warana industrial area, on the corner of Main Drive and Commerce Avenue. From Wurtulla, near the Kathleen McArthur Conservation Park on Currimundi Lake, it's a straight run north along Nicklin Way to reach us. We keep the van stocked for the common jobs, so most Wurtulla call-outs are sorted in a single visit. If it's easier to drop in, give us a call first.
Queensland Paint SuppliesQuestions
Yes. Colour matching is done on-site with a spectrophotometer and computer, reading the panel itself, which also works when a colour has faded or been repainted and no longer matches its factory code. If the car can't come in, a removable painted part such as a fuel flap or mirror cap gives the spectrophotometer enough to read.
There's no Queensland Paint Supplies branch in Wurtulla (the only counter is at Warana, open Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4pm), but a stocked van runs a regular delivery route into the area, so most call-outs are resolved in a single visit.
Custom aerosols are mixed and filled in-store from the same colour bases used for full mixes, so a stone-chip or small-repair touch-up can typically be ready while you wait rather than ordered in. Busy periods and difficult matches can push the wait out, so call 07 5493 2088 before driving in from Wurtulla.
Yes. BESA (Bernardo Ecenarro) is stocked specifically for industrial, commercial-vehicle and automotive panels, a market it has supplied since 1963. Its URKIMIX PRO tintometric system covers patch, panel and overall repair, and Concept Paints and Cromax sit alongside it for passenger cars, so a mixed fleet can be supplied from one counter.
Concept's NO MIX LV system is a low-VOC version of its NO MIX tinting range, stocked for jobs that carry a VOC specification. Tell the counter what the job's VOC requirement is, and the product can be mixed to your colour and sent out on the van with the rest of the order.
Wurtulla Beach is a directly patrolled ocean beach, and the suburb's housing is mostly separate houses with driveway parking and a high rate of two-plus-vehicle households. That combination means more vehicles sit exposed to salt air and UV than in an inland suburb, which is worth factoring into adhesion and clearcoat choice when you ask at the counter.
Also stocked
Bring the vehicle or just the colour code to the Warana counter, Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4pm, for spectrophotometer matching while you wait, or ask about van delivery into Wurtulla.