Looking for paint color code - 1999 Subaru Forester

Hi Darleen, I'm glad to help. Look under the hood along the fender, there should be a metal tag that has the paint code for your vehicle. Hope this helps and have an awesome day Darleen.

If you'd like to know the original paint color of a vehicle to repaint or touch up scrapes, one of the ways to find out is by looking up the Vehicle Identification Number, more commonly referred to as a VIN. The VIN is a 17-digit number that can tell you practically all of the information about a car, such as make, prior reported accidents and color code. The dealership will be able to determine the paint code based on the VIN.

The paint code is on the trim tag attached to the driver's side firewall. A trim tag, lists original interior trim, exterior color, build date and other fisher body info. The paint code is a two digit code on the right side second row. If you have two codes, the car was a two tone car. If you go to http://www.paintscratch.com/ you can enter the year make and model of the car and see all the avilable colors that are original for that vehicle.

The paint code for all Chevy cars and trucks are located on the service parts identification sticker. While the sticker is moved around from year to year, it still looks like the ones below. Most labels are white paper sticker, while more moderns ones are a silver label. While most paint codes in our database start out with a "WA", most cars and trucks will start out with a "BC/CC U". BC/CC stands for basecoat/clearcoat, and the U stands for upper or body color.


Two Tone Models: A two toned car will have a "U" followed by the four digit color code for the body color, and an "L" followed by a four digit color code for the lower color or the bumper color.

I believe it should be 78U. Which is maroon metallic.

Hope helps (remember rated this).

Best thing to do is go to a automotive paint store, there they will have some books you can look at and pick your color.

Why answer if you don't know? It in the trunk on spare tire cover.

When you go to the paint store, they look up the vin and that number has the paint number in it. They know what it is and how much you need, just bring your check book. You might find the code on the door post, it usually has all that info. Hope this helps. Oh yeah, the rattle can has GM colors too, You could check them out.

Open the trunk and look at the back of the spare tire cover and see if the codes are there

try this:
Hyundai Paint Color Code Location:
[1997-Present models]

Usually found: Driver side door Jamb (6).

Other place to look: inside engine bay area by Firewall (middle) (3), or Radiator Support (front middle) (10) , or Under Driver Seat (5).
[Before 1997 models]

Usually found at: Driver side door jam (6).

Other places to look: Firewall (middle) (3) (Excel) (Scoope), or Radiator Support (front middle) (Sonata) (10).

Click here for diagram Paint Color Code Looks Like:

They are usually shown as a two digit number on the vehicle, such as PV or E8 .

Click Here for Hyundai Paint Color Code Label Sample

The paint color code should be on the door sticker, along with the vehicle information.

a good paint shop should recognize the code off the sticker beside your vacuum booster for your brakes all your option codes should be there. lift the hood and look all the way back in front of the driver seat.