Ford
Where is the paint code on a Ford?
Driver's door jamb, on the Safety Compliance Certification Label, in the box marked EXT PNT.
Step by step
- Open the driver's door and find the barcode label on the door or the door jamb.
- Look along the lower row of small boxes for the one headed EXT PNT.
- The two characters printed under it are the exterior paint code.
- The box marked INT TR is the interior trim code, not paint.
If the sticker is missing or faded
- Any Ford dealer parts desk can read the code from your VIN off the build record.
- On older trucks the label may be on the driver's door edge rather than the jamb.
Is the paint code in the VIN?
No. A VIN does not encode paint color. We checked this directly against the US government's vehicle database (NHTSA vPIC): a VIN decode returns 140 fields, and none of them is exterior color or paint code.
A dealer can look your color up from your VIN because it is recorded on the build sheet held by the manufacturer — but it cannot be read out of the seventeen characters themselves. Any site claiming to decode paint color from a VIN alone is either querying a build-record database or guessing.